Amy E. Schwartz is Moment’s opinion and book editor.
Born in polemic, the meaning of the word ‘diaspora’ has fluctuated. ...
The longtime political journalist discusses the increasingly contentious (even for New York) politics surrounding Jewish voters and Zohran Mamdani. ...
The news from Israel this morning was of yet another narrowly averted crisis, the threatened collapse of the governing coalition over attempts to put teeth in a bill that would compel Haredi participation in the IDF. ...
AJC event organizer describes the aftermath of the attack that claimed the lives of Israeli Embassy staffers Yarón Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim at the Capital Jewish Museum. ...
We need to learn to take our heroes where we find them. ...
Should you give books as holiday presents? Of course you should! ...
Many years ago, as a young reporter, I had the arresting experience of watching in real time as a random group of people spontaneously enforced the American taboo against antisemitism. ...
Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute reflects on how the Jewish community may vote this presidential campaign season. ...
At a brunch during the DNC in Chicago, California assembly member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan was wearing a hat with two Stars of David flanking the slogan “Jews for Momala.” ...
What is it about motherhood, especially early motherhood, that has been propelling novelists lately toward the surreal and the supernatural? ...
Spies in the Warsaw Ghetto! Ob/Gyns on Everest! Handmaids of Ancient Canaan! ...
The first time I found myself in synagogue for the chanting of the Book of Kohelet, or Ecclesiastes—typically read by Ashkenazi Jews during the Shabbat of Sukkot, the fall harvest festival—my first astonished thought was that I’d wandered into the wrong room, or at least picked up the wrong book. ...