Recipe: Bukharian Fried Fish and Stuffed Onions
Like most Jewish sub-groups, Bukharians, who lived for centuries in Central Asia, have an array of dishes they’ve carried with them through years of political...
Week in Review: Abe Foxman to Retire, Natalie Portman in Israel, Valentine’s Day and much more!
Jewish passengers on board a Belgian train were asked to get off at Auschwitz and “take a short shower” after fellow travelers reportedly hijacked the...
Postpartum PTSD: My Story of Traumatic Childbirth
My story mimics Rachel's in so many ways. She struggled with infertility for many years before becoming pregnant. She then gave birth to two sons. She had a traumatic labor and delivery. But, thanks to a leading team of nurses and doctors, and the post-Biblical birthing method of cesarean section, I survived.
Book Review: A Child of Christian Blood, The Devil That Never Dies
Richard Bernstein reviews two new works on anti-Semitism by Edmund Levin and Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
Book Review // Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
Life Beyond Portnoy
By Alan Stone
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
Claudia Roth Pierpont
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013, pp. 353, $27.00
Philip Roth’s pen has finally run dry, and...
Jewish Word // Philistine
How Philistine Became a Dirty Word
by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
It’s a story nearly everyone knows: The young shepherd boy uses nothing but his wits and a slingshot...
Week in Review: High-Tech Dead Sea Scrolls, Israel Boycott Bill Axed and much more!
The New York State Assembly has withdrawn a bill that would cut off funding to colleges and universities that initiate boycotts of Israel. Although a...
Ari Shavit on Love, Brutality and Hope
Israeli journalist Ari Shavit on his award-winning new book, "My Promised Land"
The Contrition and Confusion of Ari Shavit
How should we view the complicated history of Lydda and what it means for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
Sports Moment // Wrestling with the Ghosts of Olympics Past
With the Winter Olympics set to open in Sochi, Russia, in February, Moment’s Josh Tapper talks to David Wallechinsky, author of The Complete Book of the Olympics and president of the International Society of Olympic Historians.
Week in Review: Obama’s State of the Union, Scarlett Johansson, Pete Seeger and more!
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama reinforced Israel’s status as a Jewish state and a key ally of the...
Poem // Art Gallery: Summer Internship
By Richard Michelson
What shall I ask of this sixteen-year-old girl,
born in the final years of the twentieth century,
who has tattooed her great-grandfather’s camp number
onto her forearm? ...