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Introduction I. What Performance and Specification/Design Standards Are, and How They Have Developed A. What Are Performance and Specification/Design Standards? B. From Specification to Performance Standards C. How Some Specification [...]

I love this definition! It really sets the stage for our work. Everything we do and every decision we make should always be within the context of building our sense [...]

Does the world hate Jews? Is antisemitism the unchanging condition of Jewish life? There's certainly a line of traditional Jewish thought that takes that view. We learn from Genesis that [...]

What makes a word Jewish? For more than 15 years, we have been trying to answer that question in Moment's Jewish Word feature. In every issue we shed light on [...]

Here you are, catching up, maybe relaxing now that camp is over. You're reflecting on the joy of having experienced another successful season; the sadness of saying goodbye to campers [...]

Nir Oz, a kibbutz on the southern border of Israel, had 400 residents before October 7. Jonathan Dekel-Chen was one of them. A Connecticut native, he has lived on Nir [...]

Every year I look forward to reading submissions to the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Delving into the 20 to 30 finalists carefully plucked from the vast sea of [...]

Jokes, including the Jewish variety, are a staple of Western civilization. Some Jewish jokes have been around for centuries and are passed from generation to generation; others might have made [...]

Less than a month after three university presidents testified on Capitol Hill in December about campus antisemitism, two of them--Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania and Claudine Gay of [...]

A few years back a prominent writer and Israel advocate visited the Moment office. While here she railed against the then-newish organizations that were taking Jewish young adults to places [...]

A MOMENT BIG QUESTION with MADELEINE ALBRIGHT * CHRIS ANDERSON * COLETTE AVITAL LARRY BRILLIANT * SHALOM CARMY * DEEPAK CHOPRA HALEH ESFANDIARI * THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN * MARISOL GARRIDO-MARTINEZ [...]

IN 1910 IN WARSAW, POLAND writer Zvi Prylucki founded Der Moment, a popular independent Yiddish daily read by Jews throughout Eastern Europe. In 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland, and the [...]

Israelis who see the United States as their best friend have long chafed at Israel's exclusion from the U.S. visa waiver program, which since 1988 has allowed citizens of 40 [...]

EVERY FEW YEARS, A YOUTUBE CLIP MAKES ITS WAY around the literary corners of the internet: A young Cynthia Ozick stands up at a 1971 panel on feminism featuring Norman [...]

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM SIONA BENJAMIN | CAPERS FUNNYE PETER A. GEFFEN | JEROME GROOPMAN YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI | EDWARD HIRSCH LAWRENCE A. HOFFMAN | DARA HORN EVGENY KISSIN | YEHUDA KURTZER [...]

Millennial are not like other generations. Or so we are told. Defined by the Pew Research Center as anyone born between 1981 and 1996, millenials are now the world's largest [...]

Late last term, the Supreme Court decided a case that fundamentally transformed the relationship between church and state. In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court found that high [...]

'MAKE FOR YOURSELF A RABBI' Recently, my three-year-old began starting every sentence with the qualifier 'I feel like': 'I feel like I had a good day at school,' 'I feel [...]

Last year, I spoke with a group of Israelis studying for master's degrees in American Jewish Studies at Haifa University. They were on a two-week tour of the United States, [...]

We have probably seen the end of the German trials of Nazi perpetrators. In the most recent one, in 2022, Irmgard Furchner, 97, a secretary to the camp commander at [...]

It was 1908, and New York City was in the midst of its biggest wave of Jewish immigration. As election time approached, city officials, worried about the potential electoral boost [...]

It is hard to believe we are about to celebrate our third COVID Passover. But there is a lot to be hopeful about: Vaccines are widely available, the Omicron wave [...]

THIS STORY IS PART OF MOMENT'S MULTI-ISSUE EXPLORATION INTO THE ISRAEL AND AMERICAN JEWISH DIVIDE. When I was in fourth grade, the night before Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Independence Day, my [...]

In 1950, Rose Joshua and Fannie Schanfeld met with H. David Dalquist, owner of the Scandinavian cookware manufacturing company Nordic Ware, to discuss a proposal. At a Minneapolis Hadassah chapter [...]

If you had told me three years ago that I would be invited to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a 'Forum on Common Values Among Religious Followers,' I would have asked [...]

It feels as if Mayim Bialik is everywhere. She is talking about mental health on her new podcast, 'The Breakdown with May im Bialik'; she is giving parenting advice on [...]

WITH Yosef Abramowitz Sara Bloomfield Joseph Ciechanover Patrick Desbois Nadine Epstein Martha Hauptman Ted Koppel Bernard-Henri Levy Chaim Peri Mark Podwal Dina Porat Menachem Z. Rosensaft Kali Rubaii Dan Shapiro [...]

In each of Alan Furst's 14 novels about spies--not spy novels, he insists there is a difference--characters inevitably end up dining at Brasserie Heininger in Paris. The fictional restaurant, based [...]

A MOMENT SYMPOSIUM WITH EUGENE VOLOKH/SHAUN R. HARPER / MARSHALL BREGER ANNA JOSEPH / HANNA ROSIN / GREG LUKIANOFF / JOSH FREEMAN MARK YUDOF/ZAREENA GREWAL/ERIC ALTERMAN/KIM COLBY HEATHER WEAVER/JONATHAN CHAIT [...]

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ROBERT AUMANN, THEODORE BIKEL, LEON FLEISHER, RUTH BADER GINSBURG, JEROME GROOPMAN, RUTH GRUBER, FANYA HELLER, MADELEINE KUNIN, WALTER LAQUEUR, CARL LEVIN, FAYE MOSKOWITZ, JUDEA PEARL, RICHARD PERLE, WALTER REICH, HOWARD [...]

A MOMENT SYMPOSIUM WITH ROBERT BARNES LYLE DENNISTON TONY MAURO SARAH POSNER LESLIE C. GRIFFIN STEPHEN WERMIEL MARSHALL BREGER EMILY BAZELON DAHLIA LITHWICK When it comes to religion, the Supreme [...]

In December, Arab Knesset member Mansour Abbas noted that Israel was born as a Jewish state and will remain one, so the pressing question of the status of Arab citizens [...]

DAVID PELCOVITZ The English word 'happiness' is related to the prefix of words like 'happenstance,' 'hapless' and 'haphazard,' which implies that happiness is tied to chance: If you're lucky enough [...]

That year, 1968, the government launched an anti-Semitic purge. Many Jewish adults--even communists--lost their jobs, and Gebert was expelled from school. He became an outsider, which would deeply influence his [...]

I can remember the first time I jrtook one of the discount buses that now dominate bus travel between New York and Washington. It was the early aughts, and a [...]

What makes a place holy? And who gets to decide? Such abstract questions become concrete and emotional when we talk about Jerusalem. At sites such as the Temple Mount, holiness [...]

Abstract First-wave feminist, suffragette, and 1898 Albany Law School graduate, Katherine "Kate" Stoneman, pioneered the admission of women to the Bar of the State of New York. She led the [...]