Michael Pollan: High Priest of American Food
Michael Pollan, the poster boy of America’s “new food” movement, talks about the role his Jewish upbringing plays in his approach to food, his disagreements with Leviticus and how cooking for yourself is the key to healthy eating and changing the world.
Marc Chagall: The Bride and Groom on Cock (1939–1947)
The little known story behind "The Bride and Groom on Cock"
Ben Cohen | Mr. Rouhani, You’re No Gorbachev
Iran's new president is far from moderate.
Sarah Posner | Israel’s Best Friends or Jews’ Mortal Enemies?
Are messianic Jews good for Israel?
Marshall Breger | “What Happened at Auschwitz?”
Imams confront the Holocaust at Auschwitz
Gershom Gorenberg | Is Bibi the New Golda?
The "status quo" summers of 2013 and 1973
Travels with Pnin
In college, I made the ill-advised decision to join the cross-country ski team. Slow, given to daydreams, and so lacking any sense of direction that...
Heart to Heart with Elie Wiesel
Not long ago, I sat down with Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Moment co-founder Elie Wiesel for a heart-to-heart talk. In 2011, he...
Remembering Yoram Kaniuk, and the Legacy of the Bergson Group
Yoram Kaniuk, the prize-winning Israeli author and peace activist who passed away last week, often ventured well beyond the national consensus with his controversial views...
Meet the Maharats: Questions for Rori Picker Neiss
Last week, Moment published interviews with two graduates of Yeshivat Maharat, the first school to train Orthodox female clergy. Today, Moment speaks with fellow classmate...
In Praise of Pop Culture’s Jewish Fathers
Behold, the Jewish father: an oft-forgotten figure, generally second fiddle to the much-discussed Jewish mother. Though pop culture tends to be focused on the matriarchs...
How Jew-Friendly Persia Became Anti-Semitic Iran
The complex tale of how the Persian Empire founded by Cyrus the Great—the world’s “first” Zionist—metamorphosed into the Israel-Hating nation we know today.
Abdol Hossein Sardari...