Photo Exhibition | Lest We Forget
On April 10 I attended the opening ceremony for Lest We Forget, a photo exhibition of Holocaust survivors at the Reflecting Pool by the foot of the Lincoln Memorial.
At 70, How Secure Is Israel?
Freilich speaks with Moment about the threat of the Iranian-Hezbollah-Syrian axis, whether Israel is too dependent on the United States and why Israel cannot let Iran establish a permanent military presence on its border.
Opinion | Natalie Portman: A Role Model for Diaspora Jews
Natalie Portman made a political statement: You, Mr. Netanyahu, she said, are not the state.
Book Review | Yiddish for Pirates
Narrated by Aaron, a wisecracking 500-year-old African Gray parrot with a penchant for Yiddish puns, the book follows Moishe, a 14-year-old who yearns for adventure after discovering his father’s book of maps.
Could Israel Help Cape Town’s Water Crisis?
While the average American enjoys about 88 gallons of water every day, in Cape Town, the daily limit per person is 13.2 gallons—that is, if it wants to avoid “Day Zero,” when the taps run dry.
Spotlight: Beba Idelson
. After Israel’s establishment, Idelson served in the first five Knessets, where she was also the first woman to serve as deputy speaker.
Superman’s Jewish Roots
Supermans religion has never been explicitly acknowledged, and he is not commonly associated with his Jewish roots.
Fiction | The Mark
This story is the second-place winner of the 2017 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize authors...
Moment’s 2018 Publish-A-Kid Contest
ATTENTION: STUDENTS, TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS, PARENTS & GRANDPARENTS
Moment is an independent magazine that illuminates the political, cultural and religious complexities of the Jewish world. Our tagline is “The Next...
Soundtrack of the Shoah
When Moshe Ha Elion sings, his clear, strong voice intones the rise and fall of a life lost too soon.
Jews and the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution
Twenty-first century Ukraine, as Marci Shore notes in her extraordinarily deft, astute, and riveting new account of the dramatic 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, The Ukrainian Night, was too “heir to the grandeur” of the intentions of Nazism and Communism.
Photos | The Holy Land 1000
I just returned from Israel, where I found myself in the passenger seat of a Jaguar roadster roaring through the Judean Hills on a segment of...