How many Reform Jews live in Israel? The proper answer to this question ought to be: Who cares? And yet some people do care, me included. Orthodox rabbis care because they fear Reform infiltration; pro-Reform activists care because they want the denomination’s fortunes to rise...
In our 2019 seder supplement, we've collected some of Moment’s best Passover stories—from the history of charoset to the best Passover movies....
The son of a leading Canadian Orthodox Rabbi and a scion of a family embedded in the Hasidic community, Yechiel Eckstein, unsurprisingly, was a devout, deeply traditional Jew. ...
Moment asked millennial Jews, "How is your Judaism different from your parents'?" The young generation of the Jewish community looks diverse—and proud to be Jewish. ...
Today, there are only five sand synagogues remaining in the world, three of them in the Caribbean....
More than a century and a half has passed since the gold rush created the booming Australian city of Ballarat, 70 miles inland from Melbourne. The gold is long gone, but the worshippers who sit shoulder to shoulder in the pews of Shearith Yisroel seem...
Our reaction to the events in Pittsburgh began with mourning for the victims. From mourning we moved to the legitimate fear that comes from living in a nation where easily procured weapons of mass death terrorize people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people and—as always—Jews. ...
The legacy of this half-forgotten conflict is an important one for those who care about religious freedom and religious pluralism today....
The first time I came face-to-face with Jewish magic was when I moved to Israel in my early 20s. It was the fall of 1995 and Jerusalem was beginning a 15-month celebration marking the 3,000 years since King David conquered the city and proclaimed it...
Forty-six years after the first American woman rabbi was ordained, Judaism is transformed. ...