From 1975 | Mazal Tov?
The constriction of the Jewish vocabulary is nowhere more apparent than in the status of mazal tov as the sole surviving congratulatory phrase of Jewish interchange.
From 1975 | Jacob Schiff and My Uncle Ben Daynovsky
And who is Jacob Schiff that he should be embarrassed by my Uncle Ben Daynovsky?
Tears and Laughter: How Israelis Are Handling a Second War with Eetta Prince Gibson and Amy E. Schwartz
Join Moment Israel Editor Eetta Prince-Gibson for a conversation about how Israelis are faring and examples of how they are using parody—in TV skits, social media memes and more—to laugh at some of the absurd things happening as well the very real consequences of war with Iran.
From 1975 | Pride and Paradox: An Exchange of Letters
As part of Moment's 50th anniversary coverage, we're republishing content from the first issue, May/June 1975. This piece features on exchange of letters between professors Shlomo Avineri and...
From 1975 | Jews and the Science Fiction Problem
The more things change, the more Jews remain the same; while the more Jews change, the more things remain the same.
From 1975 | Fein on Percy
His statement had caused so much consternation in the Jewish community, the statement whose central aspect dealt with Arafat's "moderation."Â
From 1975 | A Classical Rebirth
Kastnerr, first of all, was the only child of an inflexibly Orthodox German rabbi who kicked his son out of his house when he first discovered him studying the forbidden wisdom of the Greeks.
From 1975 | The Last Word on the Jewish Catalog
Apparently, the relatively limited coverage of the Catalog has in no way impeded sales; while it has all the trappings of a media event, the Catalog has been consistently overlooked or at best underplayed by the press, and has achieved its popularity by appealing directly to consumers in their local communities
From 1975 | A Song for Women in Five Questions
Thus, coming late into feminism, Jewish women were advantaged by the fact that many Jewish men had already achieved a raised consciousness, had returned to a Jewish ethnic base and had become interested in the spiritual side of life, even insofar as they might be willing to alter a form for the sake of a more perfect substance.
From 1975 | The New Jewish Right
In recent years, Jewish political conservatism has been crystallized into identifiable, organizational structures.
From 1975 | Can Israel Win Another War?
The fifth war: if it comes, will it be simply another round in the long duel between Arab and Jew fought over the old battlefields and for the old objectives, or will it be Armageddon, a confrontation between the superpowers that could set the world alight? No one, naturally, can say. What can be said with confidence is that another war will not be like the last
From 1975 | Beginnings
"Moment is, above all else, an invitation: an invitation to take Jewish possibilities seriously (but not soberly); an invitation to inquiry, to learning, to literature, to Jewish life richly conceived."