After Abbas | Interview with Ghaith al Omari
Former Abbas advisor and PA official thinks "the PA is in the worst shape it has been since its creation."
Talk of the Table | A Chat with ChefGPT
It was with some trepidation that we decided to bring the matter of food to the great AI Oz.
Ask the Rabbis | What Impact Will Artificial Intelligence Have On People’s Spiritual Lives?
Artificial intelligence has been around ever since we plucked the fruit off the branch of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and came away with clarity around neither.
As Israel Reaches a Boiling Point, Washington’s Concern Grows
As Israel's government advances its Judicial legislation, President Biden speaks out.
Sing to Survive: New Jewish Songbook Combats Climate Crisis
This May, climate action organization Dayenu released “Rising Tides, Rising Voices: Songs for the Jewish Climate Movement,” a digital songbook, which brings together a diverse set of songs—Jewish and secular, English and Hebrew, chanted and sung—for Jewish climate activism.
Jewish Word | Beware the Fires of Moloch
In 2012, days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six adults, historian Garry Wills wrote an impassioned essay in The New York Review of Books.
From the Archive | More Poetry of Linda Pastan
The following poems by Linda Pastan were printed in Moment between 1975 and 2015.
A SHORT HISTORY OF JUDAIC THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The rabbis wrote:
although...
Wisdom Project | Edith Everett, 94
Edith Everett’s days continue to be filled with endeavors to repair the world and she encourages others to do the same.
Explainer | Who Is Kidnapped Researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov?
Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was kidnapped in Iraq several months ago, is being held by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Shiite militia in Iraq, Israel’s government confirmed on July 5. A doctoral student at Princeton University, Tsurkov has been held by the insurgent group since March.
From the Newsletter | Remembering Poet Linda Pastan
What lyrical poetry can do—but rarely does—sounds impossible. It can blur the distinction between thought and feeling, between speech and song. And though it can’t...
Roundtable | Robots Get Religion
In real life, artificial intelligence may be making great strides, but it’s nothing—at least, as yet—compared to the visions of artificial yet intelligent creatures that live in our literary imagination.
Partly Cloudy Reads for Your Beach Bag
When anxieties are rippling through the culture, novelists can’t help picking up the signal.