Anti-Semites Who Loved Jews… And the Jews Who (Sometimes) Loved Them Back In an oddity overlooked in the annals of human love, it has come to light that Adolf Hitler once loved a Jewish woman. Or, at least, he thought he did. As a moody teenager in...
Brian Epstein, the man who discovered the Beatles and shaped them into the biggest music sensation of the 20th century, died 40 years ago at age 32. The pivotal role the enigmatic and charming Epstein played made him the world’s most admired band manager. But...
Five years ago, I got the thrill of a lifetime when, as a collections manager for the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC, I placed a 10th-century parchment fragment into a display case for a Bible exhibition. This fragile fragment was a palimpsest, a...
The 49th state was built by Jewish people, Jewish money and Jewish know-how. And although their numbers are small, Jews are still disproportionately prominent in commercial and public life. In 1938, as the Nazis laid plans to annihilate European Jewry, a few desperate Jews dreamed of...
Nearly three years ago, I met a 90-year-old woman from Cleveland named Eva Rosenberg who told me her story—and that of her late husband Milton Rosenberg. In 1950, one month after Julius Rosenberg was arrested for spying for the Soviet Union, Eva’s husband and his...
Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority reviewed by Robin Aronson...
They had the wrong name at the wrong time in the wrong place. Moment investigates discrimination against Jews who worked for the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey in the wake of Julius Rosenberg’s arrest....
A new generation of high-caliber Jewish major league players—including four All-Stars—takes the field. Plus exclusive profiles of Ryan Braun, Craig Breslow, Ike Davis, Danny Valencia and Kevin Youkilis....
A decade after the September 11th attacks, Moment looks back on the career of the 95-year-old Middle East scholar whose ideas provided the framework for the war in Iraq. Long an outcast in contemporary Middle East Studies departments, he and his followers defend his legacy. ...
Why is Moment, a magazine of Jewish politics, culture and religion, devoting space to the Roma, especially when there are so many issues of direct interest to the Jewish people to explore?...