you take the long view—and it’s a very long view—relations between Jews and China make the word “complex” seem too simple. The Chinese government’s recent attitude toward Israel might lead one to think that a very ordinary word—“bad”—captures the dynamic. But that would be like judging an immortal novel by an out-of-sync last line. Read more » »

American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews By Andrew Porwancher Princeton University Press, 368 pp. Theodore Roosevelt had a thing about the Jews. Read more » »

Early in 1934, as Adolf Hitler consolidated his stranglehold on Germany, a 25-year-old youth-group leader named Hans-Joachim Schoeps hailed the emerging dictatorship as the embodiment of “military order and discipline, will to power, and authority. Read more » »

“No rabbi at Inauguration; 20-Year Tradition Broken.” Tough headline in the January 21, 1977, Bnai Brith Messenger. And accurate. Indeed, Jimmy Carter was the first president who did not include a prayer by a rabbi as part of the official proceedings of an inauguration ceremony since the tradition began in 1949. Read more » »

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On September 17, the Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature overrode Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto and enacted the latest in a series of measures that Cooper and the state’s African-American leaders said was aimed at suppressing, limiting and otherwise diluting the votes of the state’s African American voters. Read more » »

We want to hear from you. To join the conversation, send a letter to editor@momentmag.com. DANCING IN THE STREETS I was impressed by the diversity of opinions in the last Moment “Big Question” project (“What does 75 years of the State of Israel mean Read more » »

Peter J. Hotez (MD, PhD) is internationally known for his public science advocacy, having taken on anti-vax groups’ attempts to connect autism with vaccines and, more recently, for combating misinformation about fighting COVID. He regularly appears on major news shows and in print media and maintains an active presence on Twitter. Read more » »

LEONARD CHESS was dubious about the blues songs that his Chicago company, Aristocrat Records, was recording one April day in 1948. Aristocrat usually recorded jazzy blues with horns, but this session featured a lone singer and his guitar, accompanied by a bass fiddle. Read more » »