Moment's annual Publish-a-Kid contest is underway! Every year, Moment invites kids ages 9-13 to write book reviews: the winning reviews will be published in the...
by Lily Hoffman Simon
The Israeli Defense Force is often viewed as a reflection of Israeli ideologies, and of the Jewish state in general. This conception...
By Daniel Hoffman
The controversial educational video from the Israeli Ministry of Education opens with a kindergarten teacher asking tough questions “to prepare the children for...
by Gabriel Weinstein
My grandfather always chuckled when we spoke about the Galicia region of northwestern Ukraine and southeastern Poland. He’d cackle, “Galicia! We used to...
by Lily Hoffman Simon
Jewish immigrant communities coming to North America around the turn of the 20th century faced many problems, including poverty, anti-Semitism, and poor...
By Merav Levkowitz
For 25 years, the American klezmer band The Klezmatics has been unable to sustain itself solely from their Yiddish klezmer music. The reason...
by Daniel Kieval
I recently heard a lecture by J. J. Goldberg, senior columnist for The Forward, about the current state of American Judaism and its...