Opinion // No, the Devil Isn’t in the Details
In fact, the Iran debate isn’t about centrifuges at all.
Q&A: What Is Jewish Terrorism?
Daniel Byman, director of research and a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program, on the roots of Jewish terrorism and what can be done to address it.
Obama To Appeal Directly to American Jews on Iran Deal Friday
President Barack Obama on Friday will keynote a live webcast hosted by the Jewish Federations of North America and the member organizations of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Wooing American Jews on the Iran Deal: A Timeline
The outreach since April has included a stream of conference calls and meetings.
Julian Bond, 1940-2015
Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP and civil rights leader, died Saturday at age 75. In May, Bond appeared at a Moment event held...
A Great Civil Rights Partnership: A Moment Photo Symposium
A Moment photo symposium in honor of the struggle for racial equality.
An Activist Remembers Her Civil Rights Journey
"I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing," writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.
European Maccabi Games Come to Berlin
The symbolism of holding an international Jewish sporting event at Berlin’s Olympic Park—built by the National Socialists for the 1936 Olympics, from which Jewish athletes were excluded—was lost on no one.
‘Oriented’ Examines What it Means to be Gay and Palestinian in Israel
Two years ago Jake Witzenfeld, a new Jewish Tel Aviv transplant from England, discovered Qambuta Productions—a fresh, subversive and artistic Palestinian voice on YouTube that uses parody to illustrate social and political issues in the Arab community.
Edward Hirsch — Poet Laureate of Grief
As Hurricane Irene descended on New York City in 2011, acclaimed poet Edward Hirsch received a text message from his only son Gabriel that he would be home in an hour. That was the last time he would hear from him.
Reunited in Reunified Berlin
Nadine Epstein returns to a changed city.
Speaking Volumes // Austin Ratner on E.L. Doctorow
Many writers seem daunted by the autobiographical novel—ashamed to write of themselves, as if that were either self-indulgence or exploitation. And of course with James Joyce and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a paragon, many do not even dare to try. But Joyce didn’t frighten off E.L. Doctorow, who mined his own Depression-era childhood in New York for the 1986 National Book Award-winning World’s Fair.