Book Excerpt | ‘Who Will Lead Us?’
Like most of Polish Jewry, the Bobovers realized, perhaps too late, that what was happening in neighboring Germany would affect them profoundly. ...
Friday, April 20, 2018
Jewish World
The Semantics of Anti-Semitism
In the late 1800s, a German writer and political agitator named Wilhelm Marr published a pamphlet called “The Way to Victory of Judaism over Germanism.” The idea was that Jews and Germans were locked in perpetual conflict, which could only end, Marr worried, with one...
Why No Jew in Albania Was Turned Over to the Nazis
Few Americans have heard of Besa, but Besa is the reason that during the dark days of the Nazi takeover of Albania not a single Jewish citizen of Albania, nor any other Jew seeking refuge in Albania, was turned over to the Nazis or sent...
On Yom HaShoah, Why Don’t We Read All the Names?
What I had naively imagined was this: Some central authority parceled out lists of names systematically to all of the Jewish communities around the world that read names aloud on Yom HaShoah...
The Rabbi Who Tracked Down Nazis
While a handful of authentic former Nazis were gathered at the New York meeting along with like-minded individuals, so was a Jew....
Photo Essay: Inside the Story of ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’
In 2014, inspired by reading Ackerman's book, Moment editor Nadine Epstein, visited the zoo as a guest of the foreign ministry of Poland....
The Passion of Passover
At the Passover seder, Jews across the world retell the greatest love story of all time: the story of what happened when God fell in love....
Einstein’s Hidden Spirituality
Biographers typically describe Einstein as a man who disdained Jewish rituals. But what if we have been given an incomplete picture of Einstein’s spirituality?...
Is Normalization Normal?
“Keep reminding yourself: This is not normal,” warned comedian John Oliver on Last Week Tonight. It was less than a week after Election Day, and the country was just beginning to process Donald Trump’s unexpected victory. Opponents of the president-elect were scrambling to discern what...
Conservatives Admit Non-Jews—and No One Blinked
With only a few exceptions, the days are long gone when individuals are shunned by their communities and even disowned by their parents as a result of intermarriage. ...