When I was in second grade my mother told me to read upside down. “You’re reading too fast,” she said, “it’s upsetting the teacher.” She had been instructed to do this as a child, and it was only natural for her to pass this wisdom...
Throughout The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown extols the importance of the Zohar, the classic book of Kabbalah, as an incredible source of knowledge from which modern science can draw. As one scientist explains to another in the beginning of novel, “Human beings are poised on...
Freilich speaks with Moment about the threat of the Iranian-Hezbollah-Syrian axis, whether Israel is too dependent on the United States and why Israel cannot let Iran establish a permanent military presence on its border....
Adam S. Cohen surveys the history of the illustrated Haggadah from the Middle Ages to today....
On Saturday an Iranian drone entered Israeli airspace and was shot down by an Israeli helicopter a minute and a half later....
Is the brash young crown prince a liberalizing reformer or a repressive hard-liner? And what does this mean for his kingdom’s relationships with the United States and Israel?...
As 2017 comes to a close, here are some of the best books we read this year....
We asked four of our favorite chefs to share their recipes for some fabulous holiday fare—plus an accompanying wine....
This story is part of Moment’s multi-issue exploration into the Israel and american jewish divide. When I was in fourth grade, the night before Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, my classmates and I gathered in the cafeteria of my Jewish day school and were handed...
