Film Review // Denial
“Deborah said, ‘I’m about to sign this paper giving you these rights. You need to promise me one thing: the truth.'"
Getting Political: The Third Israeli-American Council Conference
While still addressing the integration of Israeli-Americans into American Jewish life, this year’s conference gave center stage to the Coalition for Action’s step-by-step construction of alliances with local political and religious groups and use of social media to build support for pro-Israel actions.
‘A Memory of an Illusion’: A Talk With Russian Activist Masha Gessen
Did you know that Israel is not the only Jewish state in the world? Deep in the territory of the Russian Federation, close to the Chinese border is the other Jewish state: Birobidzhan.
What Is Shimon Peres’s Legacy?
Moment speaks with Reuven Hazan, a professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s political science department, about Peres’s life.
Q&A: Ukraine’s Roma Community
In late August, the small Ukrainian village of Loshchynivka, near the Romanian border, was the site of a riot that targeted property belonging to the local Roma community. Andrej Kotljarchuk, whose research focuses on ethnic minorities and mass violence, spoke with Moment.
Revisiting ‘Choosing a Jewish Life’
Anita Diamant has updated her groundbreaking book, "Choosing a Jewish Life," to provide creative and innovative guidance to those seeking to convert.
If You Don’t Vote? ‘I’ll Haunt You When I Die’
If the 2016 election weren’t surreal enough, if this year’s campaign ads weren’t strange enough: Well, now there’s this.
Jewish Word // Yiches
When Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow appeared on NBC’s hit show “Who Do You Think You Are?” she was delighted to discover that her paternal great-great-great grandfather, Tzvi Hirsch, was a prominent rabbi, kabbalist and purported miracle-worker in Novogrod, Poland...
Young readers share their thoughts about Wiesel’s Night
I grew up hearing the stories of my grandparents, who both survived the Holocaust, but when I read Night, it was in a different setting than I was used to: The text was assigned for my 9th-grade English class...
A New Kind of Campaign Ad
In his latest campaign ad, Jason Kander stands in an empty warehouse. Wearing a button-down shirt and a blindfold, he begins to assemble an AR-15 rifle.
‘While I’m Here’: A Look Back at Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel was an actor, a folksinger, a Yiddish speaker, an activist. Now, a group of musicians is making its own attempt at preserving Bikel's legacy.
Book Review // Decoding Chomsky
Decoding Chomsky
Chris Knight
Yale University Press
2016, pp. 304
By Robert F. Barsky
Chris Knight’s new book begins with the unpromising statement that he, in encountering Chomsky’s work, would...