59+ min ago   (1153+ words) “B’Ivrit: A Hebrew Language Media Roundup” is a monthly look at the news through the eyes of Israeli media consumers. On Friday, after a weeks-long stalemate in the Gulf, U.S. sources leaked to major American news outlets that the moment…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (174+ words) Moment Magazine Celebrities: Jewish or Not? Celebrities you might not have known are Jewish….or maybe you did… By Kate Berlant – by Kate Berlant, CC0 Kate Berlant – Jewish Kate Berlant is of Spanish descent on her mother’s side and Jewish descent…...

5+ day, 15+ min ago   (1738+ words) “The shit is hitting the fan,” said Rabbi Anton Goodman, speaking on Friday afternoon from the West Bank village of Al-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. Two Israelis and four Palestinians had been killed that morning near the village of…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (358+ words) This excerpt is part of Friday’s MomentLive! conversation “Shifting Sands: Saudi Arabia, Israel and America’s Changing Middle East Strategy” between Middle East expert Aaron David Miller, who is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Moment…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (158+ words) Moment Magazine Shifting Sands: Saudi Arabia, Israel and America’s Changing Middle East Strategy with Aaron David Miller and Robert Siegel Join Middle East expert Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Moment Special…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1580+ words) Basil Helles’s day starts before the bread disappears. “My morning begins with buying bread because it is only available in the early hours,” he says. Then he lights a fire for breakfast and tea and searches for water to wash…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (107+ words) I don’t expect the word Zionism to disappear overnight, or anytime soon, but a conversation has started, and if all it does is push us to think about how we use words, then we may be able to speak to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (406+ words) Four years later, those explanations have become much harder to sustain. Even movements dedicated to fighting racism and injustice can develop their own blind spots. For anyone who remembered the documenta fifteen scandal, the imagery was strikingly familiar. The antisemitic…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (414+ words) That Sonya and nearly a hundred other Holocaust survivors made that choice is one of the most historic statements ever delivered on a country’s transformation. It is also a reminder of why the work this office does—sustaining trust, building…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (194+ words) On Antisemitism: A Word in History By Mark Mazower Penguin Press, 352 pp. Today’s campaigners against antisemitism should look at how the American Jewish community navigated the 1950s and 1960s, when discriminatory barriers of all kinds were overcome, dismantled or abandoned. A wave…...