The Year Everything Changed Timeline
Thirty thinkers tell us which years altered the course of Jewish history
The Year Everything Changed
Thirty thinkers tell us which years altered the course of Jewish history
Spice Box | Retrospective Edition
Spice Box has been one of Moment’s most beloved departments since it first appeared in the October 1980 issue.
Moment Anniversary | A Mirror of Jewish American History
In his editor’s note in the May 1975 inaugural issue of Moment, Fein set out the magazine’s mandate “that Moment will help raise the sense of Jewish possibility, hence also raise Jewish aspirations.”
What Happened to the Pro-Israel Dems?
Israel, regardless of whether Engel gets to spend another term in Congress or not, is running out of hawkish Dems to build the bridge it needs to a bipartisan recognition of Israel’s importance as an ally to America. The party is shifting leftwards, while Israel is going right.
Book Review | Nuance in the Fight between Good and Evil
1939: A People’s History
By Frederick Taylor
W. W. Norton & Company; 448 pp; $30
Library shelves are full of books whose titles celebrate, commemorate or contemplate a...
Beshert | Pot, Meet Cover
“For every pot, there’s a cover.” That’s what my grandmother of blessed memory always said, never giving up her hope for me. But I was...
Talk of the Table | Timeless Jewish Foods
During the coronavirus quarantine, I spent several months cooking for, and helping, my daughter Merissa in New Orleans, where she was recovering from surgery.
Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is?
Humans have been trying to make sense of time since, well, the beginning of time—at least human time.
Methuselah: The Tree That Defied Time
A tree now grows in the arid soil of Kibbutz Ketura in southern Israel. A subspecies extinct for nearly a thousand years, this Judean date palm was resurrected from a tiny 2,000-year-old seed found in an ancient clay jar unearthed in 1963 by archaeologists excavating around Herod the Great’s palace at the ancient fortress of Masada.
Lost Time: Painting through a Pandemic
Confined to her home studio outside Tel Aviv during the COVID-19 lockdown, artist Zoya Cherkassky started producing a painting a day.
Ask the Rabbis | Do People Become More Jewish as They Get Older?
We asked our team of rabbis to weigh in.