Opinion // Bans, Blacklists and Flyers, Oh My!
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
As usual, the thought police are trying to silence diversity of opinion about Israel.
I’m not usually prone to hysteria or hyperbole, but lately...
The Promise of the Promised Land
by Sarah Kreimer
The taxi drove off, and I wondered if we had come to the right place. Footsteps crunching on gravel, we walked across an...
Ask the Rabbis // Addiction
INDEPENDENT: Addiction is highlighted in the Torah’s account of the Revelation at Mount Sinai, where the One Who Spoke and the World Came into Being instructed us not to get so caught up in our subjective assumptions about God that we would carve out and worship an image reflecting those assumptions.
Can Religious Pluralism and an Official Rabbinate Coexist in Israel?
Moment asks a wide range of scholars, activists and religious leaders to suggest if and how religious pluralism and the chief rabbinate can coexist
Meaning and the Two-State Solution
by Susan Pashman
As I set out to see for myself what was happening on Israel’s West Bank, I was also hungrily devouring Ari Shavit’s magnificent...
Week in Review: Knishes, Dates and Racist Rants
This week in Jewish news, from fun to awful.
Turns out knishes are stuffed—with history. The humble origins of the potato pie are elevated to Joycean...
“My Promised Land” Revisited
by Melvin Dow
Considering the numerous reviews written from divergent viewpoints, one might reasonably conclude that everything worth saying about Ari Shavit’s book, My Promised Land,...
Anti-Semitism: A Corrupting Influence
In our March/April issue, we examine the roots and legacy of that ancient hatred, anti-Semitism. Here we highlight one response, from David Nirenberg, a historian...
York and the Jews
by Alberta Weinberg
York is described in travel guides as a beautiful medieval city with Roman walls and a magnificent cathedral. My husband, Ken, and I...
Redeeming Haim Hazaz
by Darren Pinsker
When the Israeli writer Haim Hazaz died in 1973, his reputation was so lofty in the world of modern Hebrew letters that one...
Cycling Through Jewish Europe
by Michael Lyon
On an overcast late summer day, we were cycling north of Prague along the Elbe River, on the way to Hamburg, when we...
Anti-Semitism: Misdiagnosed in America?
In our March/April issue, we explore the thorny and ever-present issue of anti-Semitism: Where does it come from? Why does it persist? Here we highlight...