Moment spoke with Leon Wieseltier about the events in Charlottesville, Jewish obligations in the face of prejudice and how to respond to the darker aspects of our collective past....
Fighting for your freedom is so exciting, I cannot describe to you. You are ready to do anything for your freedom....
Director Joshua Weinstein’s camerawork credits include The New York Times, PBS, several Coors Light commercials and a few documentaries. Menashe—which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and was acquired by A24 for distribution in the U.S. and China—is Weinstein’s first feature fiction film....
The total population of Malta is 430,000, including about 150 Jews, most of whom live on the main island and make up one of the smallest active Jewish communities in the Mediterranean. ...
Sitting in a tiled restaurant in Dupont Circle with a glass bowl of pickles and rhubarb, it’s daunting to imagine the future of the Jewish deli....
Last September, during the final dramatic months of the U.S. presidential election, an exhibit on the golem opened at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Improbably, among the works of art and historic artifacts, the show included a baseball cap from the Trump presidential campaign stamped...
Since Richard Spencer’s torch-lit rally, Charlottesville has been a flashpoint of white supremacist activism....
On June 1, The European Parliament adopted a working definition of anti-Semitism for the first time. The definition, borrowed from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, serves as a politically important descriptor of the phenomenon. “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed...
Starting with the German occupation of 1944, the case alleged, the collection was taken away from the family after years of persecution...
Two nights after the June 18 death of Nabra Hassanen, 300 people gathered in Dupont Circle in Washington DC to light candles, honor her memory, and organize against Islamophobia. “I think it’s clear that our central Jewish values call for us to stand with our...