Taking the Pulse at AIPAC 2018
“Choose to Lead” is the AIPAC motto for 2018. There are 18,000 attendees, a figure slightly up from last year’s, including 3,600 students.
See one reason why David Brooks is a fan of Steven Pinker—The Moment Magazine Great DNA Experiment
Moment tests the DNA of 15 notable American Jews—including Joshua Bell, Mayim Bialik, David Brooks, Alan Dershowitz, A.J. Jacobs, Robert Siegel and Tovah Feldshuh—to see if and how they are related. Surprise, surprise, they are! And how!
Opinion | Rethinking Threats to Israel
Whatever the intensity of the anti-Israel voices rising from BDS and other anti-Israel advocacy organizations, they do not threaten our country’s national security.
An Interview With Sheik Mowafaq Tafik, Spiritual Leader of the Israeli Druze
The Druze religion has one million adherents, mainly in Syria and Lebanon. There are 140,000 in Israel, most of whom live in the north.
Winter Olympics 2018: Tracking Israel’s Athletes
Updates on Israel's progress in the Winter Olympics.
Politics, Propaganda and the Olympics Games
Politics and propaganda are inseparable from the Olympic spectacle—though perhaps never more patently than in Berlin in 1936.
Staff Picks: Medieval Jews in England, National Lampoon and Poland’s B-Day
What we're reading—and watching—this week
Israel, Syria, Iran and the War to Come
On Saturday an Iranian drone entered Israeli airspace and was shot down by an Israeli helicopter a minute and a half later.
How BDS at the University of Michigan Sparked a Free Speech Debate
While the November meeting marked the first time any motion to divest from Israel passed in Michigan’s student government, it also marked the first time a professor—or a speaker of any kind—was barred from addressing the student government.
Staff Picks: Weimar Berlin, Jewish Jazz and Ben Gurion’s Rice
What we're reading—and watching—this week.
Why Pluralistic Judaism Matters in Israel
Ten years ago, only around 6 percent of Israeli Jews self-identified as Reform or Conservative. Today, that number has grown to 11 percent.
Julius Rosenwald: Building Schools in the Jim Crow South
When Rosenwald decided to give away hundreds of thousands of dollars to mark his fiftieth birthday, Booker T. Washington encouraged him to donate a portion of the money to build schools for African American children in the segregated south.