Book Interview | Elizabeth Graver Tells the Family Story Behind ‘Kantika’
In Kantika, Rebecca—who is both a dressmaker and a beauty—is interested in manipulating surfaces and self-fashioning.
The Key Judicial Reforms Tearing Israel Apart
Israeli's judicial system differs from the U.S.'s in more than just details. Who’s protesting what, who has the upper hand, and what, exactly, is on the table?
Memoir | Only Living Bodies Bleed
All the years that I was religious, I couldn’t find the good in the forced separation around menstruation. It made me feel like my very essence, the soft and miraculous parts of my womanhood, was distasteful, to be kept at a distance.
Beshert | When the Love of Your Life Practically Falls through Your Ceiling
As I assessed the damage, saved my cat from drowning in the puddles in my living and dining rooms, and watched the light fixtures in my bathroom slide down the wall, I couldn’t know that I was about to meet the love of my life.
If All the Seas Were Ink with Ilana Kurshan
If All the Seas Were Ink is a memoir of a young, recently divorced American-Israeli, living in Jerusalem, whose personal struggles lead her to take on the practice of Daf Yomi, reading a page from the Talmud every day for seven years. Kurshan’s inspiring memoir about learning how to put one foot in front of the other is a winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. In conversation with Moment book review editor Amy E. Schwartz.
At JC3, Judaism Blossoms Among the Expats of San Miguel
Much like the Mexican town in which it’s located, JC3 is freewheeling, nonconformist and unabashedly unaffiliated.
Ceasefire in Gaza, Mixed Messages in DC
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ReAwaken America Tour Fuses Trumpism and Christian Nationalism
The tour's organizer claims that the COVID-19 vaccine is a bioweapon containing “luciferase,” which Bill Gates created by combining cryptocurrency technology with Jeffrey Epstein’s DNA to create a new species of human.
Wisdom Project | Eleanore Carsons, 104
The Wisdom Project at Moment: Inspirational conversations with wise people who have been fortunate to live long lives
This week’s conversation is with Eleanore Carsons, 104,...
Seeking Revenge After the Holocaust with Dina Porat and Amy E. Schwartz
Join Dina Porat, Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and former Chief Historian of Yad Vashem, for a discussion about her latest book Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge.
From 1999 | After Arafat
In 1999 Moment published an article about Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, detailing the nature of his rule, the state of his health as well as...
After Abbas: Palestinian Unification or Into the Lion’s Den?
Is Abbas positioning someone from his inner circle to take over? Polls suggest Palestinians would prefer someone from Hamas or—most strikingly—a person who is currently serving multiple life sentences in an Israeli prison.