Remembering Charles Krauthammer
I first knew Charles Krauthammer when I was a wet-behind-the-ears New Republic intern and he was a rising eminence, a scary and impressive senior editor.
The Orthodox Union’s No Good Very Bad Week
“In hindsight,” admits Nathan Diament, the executive director of the Orthodox Union’s policy arm, “our goal would have been better served by us doing it in a different way.”
‘#MeToo Meets the Apocrypha’: Folk-Rock Group Combines Judaism and Activism
Inspired by Jewish biblical texts and themes, the music also comments on a variety of modern American political issues, including environmentalism, women's empowerment and LGBTQ rights.
Discovering Science in the Zohar
Throughout The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown extols the importance of the Zohar, the classic book of Kabbalah, as an incredible source of knowledge from which...
Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish?
Since 2015, Porwancher has spent extensive time researching archives on Hamilton’s life and the possibility that he had a Jewish background.
Why Do Israeli and American Jews See Trump So Differently?
In the nearly 20 months since the 2016 elections, two competing images of Trump have emerged in the Jewish world.
For Jewish Organizations, the Unique Challenge of #MeToo
In the Jewish communal world, addressing systemic harassment and abuse comes with its own complications.
Can the Palestinian Ambassador to the U.S. Survive the Trump Era?
The General Delegation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States is short of a full-fledged embassy but significant enough for the Palestinians to plant a flag and to stake their claim as a legitimate voice in Washington’s Middle East debate.
How the Mossad Recovered a Secret Iranian Archive
In the early morning hours of January 31, 2018, a sigh of relief broke the tension in the situation room at Mossad headquarters in Glilot,...
Moment Magazine Stories on Sheldon Adelson, Anti-Semitism are Finalists for Newhouse Mirror Awards
(Washington, DC—June 6, 2018)— Two of the four stories up for this year’s prestigious Mirror Award in the Best Single Story category were produced by...
The Year of the Woman Campaign
Celebrating Women's Leadership
The public sphere is in great need of leaders who choose collaboration over confrontation, pragmatism over preening, compromise over conflict.
And research shows that women...
Philip Roth: A Writer and His People
Over the course of his remarkable career, Philip Roth received nearly every literary award imaginable. One of these prizes was an honorary doctorate from the...