Q&A: Animal Rights Activist and Holocaust Survivor Alex Hershaft
Alex Hershaft's thesis is a controversial one: that there are undeniable parallels between the Holocaust and the practice of killing animals for food.
New German Film Revisits Groundbreaking Auschwitz Trials
In Labyrinth of Lies, a young lawyer decides to prosecute Nazi soldiers nearly 20 years after the end of World War II. Moment speaks with the film's director about how the trials changed present-day Germany.
Pope Francis And The Jews
by Emily Shwake
Pope Francis’s visit to the United States has been met largely with adulation from both Catholic and non-Catholic or even entirely secular spectators....
Book Review // The Cost of Courage
The darkness lurking around the edges of heroism is the underlying and faintly troubling theme of Charles Kaiser’s The Cost of Courage, the story of a French family and the steep price its members paid for their work in the Resistance.
Opinion // The Rise of the Rebel Rabbis
Can a small group of Orthodox leaders shake up the Israeli rabbinate?
Good Yontif, Pontiff
The Apostolic Journey of Pope Francis to the U.S. starts hours before Kol Nidre on Tuesday, when he arrives at Joint Base Andrews in the Maryland suburbs. The timing, officials say, could not be avoided.
Jewish Word // Glitch
Technology inexplicably fails us often enough to need a word for the occasion, and glitch has slipped in to fill the void. Newspaper headlines routinely illustrate the word’s versatility and popularity. When thousands of travelers find themselves stranded: “Computer glitch cancels East Coast flights.” When a much-anticipated website launch screeches to a halt: “HealthCare.gov’s glitches prompt...
Ruth Wisse: Education of a Jewish Conservative
There are few more outspoken proponents of conservative ideas in North American Jewry today than Ruth Wisse: pioneer of the academic study of modern Jewish literature, longtime professor of Yiddish and Yiddish literature at McGill and Harvard, essayist, political commentator and author of a dozen books. In works such as If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews, Wisse argues that Jews must stop blaming themselves for the hatred, past and present, of Judaism and Jews.
Book Review // The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
As a university student in Warsaw in the first half of the 1970s, I used to spend much of my summer vacation hitchhiking around the country. This is how one fine July day I found myself in Jedwabne, a nondescript but beautifully located small town in Poland’s Northeast. Wandering through the meadows and forests, I lost my sense of direction and eventually had to ask a local for the road out of town.
Ladder, Roof, River, Sky // Fiction by Alan Cheuse
Years went by, one lavishly slow day at a time, with hot summers, when we baked our bodies at the beach down the street or, on an occasional excursion, on the sands at Asbury Park or Bradley Beach some hours south of home, where we swam also in the pungent salty ocean waters; then came translucent autumn light, with the High Holidays catching our attention as much for the hours at synagogue they demanded of us as any sense of the holiness of things.
Ask The Rabbis // The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement
Should rabbis talk to their congregants about BDS?
From Bullet to Bullhorn
How does a parent survive the death of a child?