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Moment Minute is our flagship newsletter. Written by our editors, who put our stories in context. Delivered Tuesdays and Thursdays.| Moment Magazine
Moment Minute is our flagship newsletter. Written by our editors, who put our stories in context. Delivered Tuesdays and Thursdays.| Moment Magazine
Starting on October 7, 2023, Israeli artist Ze’ev Engelmayer tracked the days of war with drawings shared online. The post An Israeli Artist’s ‘Postcards’ Tried to Heal the Pain of War appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
David Amram read jazz poetry with Kerouac, was the NY Philharmonic’s first composer-in-residence, scored Hollywood films and much, much more. The post Wisdom Project | David Amram, 94, Composer, Conductor and Student of ‘Hangoutology’ appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Monday was a day for reconciliation and healing. Now, assuming the ceasefire holds, will Israeli media finally cast a clear eye on Gaza? The post B’Ivrit | Israeli Media Captures a Cathartic Moment as Hostages Are Released appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
A wide-open conversation with Rabbi David Saperstein about religious freedom, church-state law and Jewish law in the United States and world today. The post The State of Religious Freedom Today <span class="zoominars_title">with Rabbi David Saperstein and Nadine Epstein</span> appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Israelis want negotiations to bring the hostages home and end the war in Gaza to succeed. And then they will have to deal with all that has happened. The post Two Sukkots Later, a Mix of Fear and Hope appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The future of Jewish life in Poland is neither established nor secure, but nor is it foreclosed. Poland is an opportunity. The post Travel and Teshuvah: Our Tour Through Poland’s Contradictions appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
What would Brandeis make of a Supreme Court that rules in favor of granting presidential immunity from criminal prosecution and puts corporate interests above the populace? The post Can the Legacy of Louis Brandeis Save American Democracy? appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The film follows members of the Kramer brothers’ extended family in Israel as they fight to get their daughter Liat and her husband Aviv released from captivity after they were taken hostage in the attacks of October 7. The post Interview | Brandon and Lance Kramer, the Filmmakers Behind ‘Holding Liat’ appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
For U.S. Jews today, their forebears’ division and equivocation in the face of slavery’s evils can only be a cause for sober reflection. The post Book Review | Civil War-Era Jews, as Divided as the Nation appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
There is no pleasure in accompanying Sharabi through his ordeal and his personal losses, but we can get some pleasure from the vivid description of his liberation day. The post Book Review | Three Windows on a War in Progress appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Moment readers respond. The post The Conversation appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Elisha Wiesel for a wide-open conversation about his father’s legacy and his own evolving path as a Jew, leader and an activist in these tumultuous times. The post A Wide-Open Conversation with Elisha Wiesel and Nadine Epstein appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
There is both progress and predictability in how the U.S.-brokered peace plan for Israel and Gaza is playing out.| Moment Magazine
Carlin Romano reviews poet Diane Mehta’s psychological self-examination of how her very different parents impacted her. The post Book Review | ‘Happier Far: Essays’ appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
After Donna Adelson’s conviction, a woman who once defended her own meddling Jewish mother struggles over how the trope was placed on trial. The post Is the Jury In on the Jewish Mother? appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
In Hebrew at least, October 7 fiction has been all but missing in action. The post Telling it Slant: Fiction After October 7 appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
A conversation about when the Black Press stood up for the Jews—and other newspapers didn’t—during the Holocaust with Clarence Page The post When the Black Press Stood Up for the Jews—and Other Newspapers Didn’t <span class="zoominars_title">with Clarence Page, Eric K Ward and Nadine Epstein</span> appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Whether or not you view the pizza bagel as deeply ingrained in our cultural consciousness, the pizza bagel’s origin story is a mess of competing claims. The post Talk of the Table | The Pizza Bagel appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
In February 2025, 54 pecent of Arab citizens of Israel showed symptoms of PTSD and 90 percent of those needing care had not received it. The post Interview | Najla Asmar on the State of Mental Health in Israel’s Arab Community appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The Jewish presence in Syria stretches back more than two thousand years, with communities in Aleppo, Damascus and Qamishli that flourished alongside Muslim and Christian neighbors. The post Reimagining Home: Syrian Jews, Memory and a Future of Peace appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Two Israeli columnists wrote two very different takes on Israel for Moment's fall issue. What did each think of the other's? The post From the Newsletter | When Opinion Columnists Turn out to Be Neighbors appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The Nobel laureate and Moment co-founder is just the 18th person honored with a stamp in the Distinguished Americans series. The post U.S. Postal Service Releases Stamp Honoring Elie Wiesel appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Jessica Fein, daughter of Moment cofounder Leonard “Leibel” Fein, talks about love, loss and family as well as the legacy her father left behind. The post Love and Loss: The Leonard Fein Family Story <span class="zoominars_title">with Jessica Fein and Nadine Epstein</span> appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The post Spice box | Libel and Slander $0.50 Extra appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
"My segment of Israeli society, a substantial, committed and active cohort, did not vote for previous Netanyahu governments, but we have never questioned their legality and legitimacy. Until the present time." The post Opinion | Friends of Israel, Shun Its Leaders appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
While we have paid a horrible, inhuman price, it is undeniable that because of this war, we Israelis have found each other again. The post Opinion | What We’ve Won in This War appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
We asked several of our award-winning contributors to provide insight into their writing process and how their articles came to be. The post The Stories Behind the Stories appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Former Rolling Stone and Billboard editor Joe Levy discusses the intersection of music and the Jewish experience in America. The post Soundtrack of the Jewish People: Great Songs that Reshaped America <span class="zoominars_title">with Joe Levy and Nadine Epstein</span> appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Ghaith al-Omari of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy discusses the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and neighboring Arab states. The post Q&A with Ghaith al-Omari: Inside the Palestinian Authority appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
An Israeli-born woman writes one letter per year from America during Rosh Hashanah to a group of women who were her classmates in Israel. The post Book Review | ‘Happy New Years’ appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
In a media environment that sees the world exclusively through the lens of “Are they pro-Israel or anti-Israel?” Kirk became an instant hero.| Moment Magazine
What is the Palestinian perspective on the situation in Gaza and the role of Hamas today, in a wide-ranging conversation with Ghaith al-Omari, senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy The post Inside the Palestinian Authority <span class="zoominars_title">with Ghaith al-Omari and Nadine Epstein</span> appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Cohen’s spare poem passes through the disorientation of loss from “the first autumn... without her” to the following summer, season of abundance and decay. The post Poem | The New Year appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Hitler’s hatred of anyone “non-Aryan” was not lost on Black Americans and the Black press. The post When the Black Press Stood by the Jews Against the Nazis appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The term “Judea and Samaria” has never been merely a geographic marker and is deeply intertwined with Jewish history. The post Jewish Word | Judea and Samaria: A Palimpsest of Sorts appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
YIVO’s current exhibitions carry visitors back to a lost world through displays of the art, artifacts and accoutrements that formed the essence of Eastern European Jewish life. The post Visual Moment | A Grogger, a Bong and a Pair of Red Shoes appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The survivors and families of the victims of the October 7 Hamas attack on the Nova Music Festival find comfort and power as a community. The post Learning to ‘Dance Again’ appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Leading a growing movement of Israelis and Palestinians advocating for justice, peace and equality, Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon have become global advocates for dialogue and cross-cultural understanding The post How a Palestinian and an Israeli Became Partners in Peace <span class="zoominars_title">with Aziz Abu Sarah, Maoz Inon, Kalid Loul and Vered Guttman</span> appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
From the spring of 1945 until the summer of 1950, the Bergen-Belsen DP camp was one of the most vibrant Jewish communities anywhere in the world, having emerged almost phoenix-like in the immediate wake of the Holocaust. The post Josef Rosensaft and the Displaced Persons Camp of Bergen-Belsen: Remembering My Father appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
If Nachman is at all classifiable, he is an unwitting modernist, his enigmatic tales less historical relics than astonishingly prescient works. The post Book Review | The Podolian Nights appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
What does it say about antisemitism in America that its most violent outrage is not widely remembered, caused no deaths and had some consequences that were arguably positive? The post Book Review | Tracing the Oldest Hatred Here at Home appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
What is Moment’s mission? And what’s a magazine in today’s world anyway? The post From the Editor | Welcome to the Moment Multiverse appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The core of our theology is that we evolve, God evolves, reality evolves for the better. I want to believe that we all believe that. The post Moment Debate | Are the Jews One People? appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
In 2075, people will have learned to live together, to respect each other despite differences in opinion, religion and ethnicity. The post What Would Astonish a Time Traveler From Your Denomination Visiting the Year 2075? appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
There is a reason historians insist on the singular nature of the Shoah. The post Opinion | Invoking the Holocaust? Proceed with Caution appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The film’s Jewish elements don’t dominate the narrative, but they thread through it in ways that deepen the sense of place and history. The post Film Review | ‘Caught Stealing’: A Grimy, Comedic-Noir Portrait of Pre-Giuliani New York appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stumbled on questions about Israel on a recent Pod Save America podcast. The post Dems Debate Israel—Yet Again appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
A reclusive woman in Jerusalem is saddled with her neighbor’s dog in the midst of an unexpected war. The post Short Fiction | ‘This Is How the World Ends’ appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
In Łódź during World War II, a wealthy factory owner hopes that his wealth and connections will enable him to avoid the fate of his fellow Jews. The post Short Fiction | ‘The Villa on Targova’ appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The post Advertising Supplement | Moment’s Travel and Retreat Guide appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
When an Israeli couple hire a down-on-his-luck friend to paint their apartment, he creates a mural that has an inexplicable hold on those who see it. The post Short Fiction | ‘The Artist’ appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Two sisters navigate the death of their mother and a years-long estrangement with their father in this Moment-Karma First Place story.| Moment Magazine
Billionaire George Soros has been accused of being anti-Israel and a Nazi collaborator. In the United States, Hungary, Israel, and some parts of American-Jewish community. This story tells how he became vilified.| Moment Magazine
Moment Editor Sarah Breger reflects on her father's lifelong curiosity, dedication to dialogue, and his enduring impact. The post Eulogy for My Father appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Marshall Breger gave Moment a legacy of thoughtful work mapping out a principled common ground between left and right that now seems almost imaginary. The post Remembering Marshall Breger z”l (1946-2025) appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Breger is a man of ideas—and his ideas are respected in the conservative circles in which he moves. By now, he has been on the job long enough for these qualities to be discovered. The post From the Archives | Marshall Breger and the Worst Job in Washington appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The Jewish community must extend to the Religious Right the same tolerance that Jews themselves expect and enjoy in American society. Only when Jews treat the Religious Right with respect can we demand pluralism and tolerance in return. The post From the Archives | Don’t Dismiss the Religious Right appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
An eyewitness account by a Jewish American living in a Palestinian village. The post The Killing of Awdah Hathaleen appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stumbled on questions about Israel on a recent Pod Save America podcast.| Moment Magazine
The charge of war crimes only requires that an actor intentionally or knowingly causes immense suffering as a matter of policy, which could implicate Israel's leaders and even its soldiers. The post Genocide Will Be Hard to Prove in Gaza. War Crimes May Be Another Story appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Providing support to ICE detainees and family members waiting to see them is just one way American Jews can step up. The post A Jewish Response to ICE: Lessons from an Occupied French Village appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Suddenly, there is a push to report on Gaza, but most reporters and editors still view it as siding with the enemy.| Moment Magazine
Let it sink in: A majority of Democratic senators are willing to stop a category of arms sales to Israel in the midst of its longest war. The post Dems Turn on Israel As Anger Over Gaza Grows appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Things seem to be changing fast in the Middle East. What does it all mean or portend?| Moment Magazine
On Tisha B’Av, as we remember the destruction of the past, we also sit with our present pain. In that stillness, music can be a companion. The post The Music of Mourning: Tisha B’Av and the Soundtrack of Grief appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
When Jewish leaders transgress your own personal ethics, it can shatter the bond to your faith. The post Jews and Moral Injury appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Join Middle East analyst Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Moment Editor-in-Chief Nadine Epstein, for a conversation about what’s behind these statements and changes and what do they really mean? The post Israel and Gaza: Change in the Wind <span class="zoominars_title">with Aaron David Miller and Nadine Epstein</span> appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
It is a tried-and-true cinematic concept, because it is a universally common life event: meeting your significant other’s parents for The post Review | ‘Bad Shabbos’ Gets a Lot of Laughs Out of a Tried-and-True Scenario appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
From his first song to his last, Lehrer’s dark humor heaped derision on all things precious.| Moment Magazine
Rebuttals to Bartov's op-ed are flying fast and furious in the Jewish world. Some take higher roads than others.| Moment Magazine
A conversation about Louis Bannet’s life before, during and after the Holocaust and how jazz music saved his life.| Moment Magazine
Emily Schrader and Blake Flayton explain the basics of Israel and Judaism to students, but should the target audience be exclusively Jewish? The post Review | 10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go To College appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
It is important to hone information literacy now, before falling victim to a new breed of fake news. The post AI Or Nay-I? 5 Tips for Spotting AI-Generated Fake News appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Israel's High Court of Justice's ruling against gender-based discrimination in rabbinic ordination exams fostered a sense of hope for women.| Moment Magazine
After all, if everyone drinks the same Coke, they can also share other interests and values. The sky is the limit.| Moment Magazine
Empathy is this latest hero's strength, but can the movie leap the anti-Israel criticism in a single bound? The post Film Review | Superman appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The array of talent seems endless. The post Visual Moment | 50 Years, 50 Noted American Jews in the Arts appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
How to cope when war reroutes your family simcha from Israel to Italy. The post Bar Mitzvah on the Fly appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
This war changed Israel’s sense of shelter, literally and figuratively. The post Gimme Shelter appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Nina Totenberg, NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent unpacks rulings ranging from the limits of presidential authority and the separation of church and state to the environment and LGBTQ rights, providing insight into what happened behind the scenes and what it all means for the future. The post The Supreme Court and its recent Decisions <span class="zoominars_title">with Nina Totenberg and Nadine Epstein</span> appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Despite high hopes and media hype, Netanyahu’s trip to the White House yielded few results—while Israeli journalists were left out in the cold. The post B’Ivrit│From Hope to Headlines: How Israeli Media Oversold Netanyahu’s Washington Trip appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The latest Antisemitism Project newsletters covers the latest from Google's Sergey Brin, Elon Musk's Grok, alleged harassment of Jewish student at a Virginia private school, the NEA dropping the ADL and a synagogue attack in Australia. The post Grok Goes Off, Brin v. UN, Teachers Flunk ADL + More appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
During last month’s fighting between Israel and Iran, many Israeli families found themselves retreating to safe rooms or communal bomb shelters. The post Life in the Safe Room appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
If you can read this, you’re too close to mine. The post Spice Box | It’s Good for the Cows, but Is it Good for the Jews? appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
In 1975, our doors were open, and we were not suspicious of strangers. The post Ask the Rabbis | What Would <span style="color: #ff0000;">Astonish</span> a Time Traveler From 1975 About Your Denomination Today? appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Plath is simply not in Larkin’s league of bigots. The post Essay | Sylvia Plath’s Private Jewish Problem appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Israel’s various conflicts have affected a vital pathway for many migratory birds. The post Migratory Birds in Wartime appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Lynne Olson, author of the new book The Sisterhood Of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp, for a conversation about these brave women, how they survived and the care they continued to give those who were part of the resistance after the war. The post The Power of Women at the All-Female Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany <span class="zoominars_title">with Lynne Olson and Amy E. Schwartz</span> appeared first on Momen...| Moment Magazine
Trump loved Netanyahu’s gesture, but it is an empty move. The post Five Quick Takes on the Trump-Netanyahu Meeting appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
After moving his mother, 92 and living with Alzheimer's, to a nursing home, a joyful transformation occurred. The post All She Wants to Do Is Dance appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
As a friend of his put it, “These were the works of a famous man, not a famous artist.” The post Artist Ben Shahn’s Nonconformity appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Moment readers respond. The post The Conversation at 50 appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
If you were a devotee of Jewish food and alive in 1975, you might remember...nothing much at all. The post Talk of the Table | Back to the Future: 50 Years of Jewish Food appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
To gauge the American Jewish mood and thinking at a time of turmoil in the United States, Moment conducted a survey of our readers earlier this year. The post Reader Survey appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Inspired by a true-crime story, We Would Never is the story of a close-knit Florida family who, in the wake of their daughter’s divorce, might (or might not) have hired a hit man to kill their ex-son-in-law. The post Advertising Supplement | Moment’s Summer Reading Guide appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
In many ways Theodore Roosevelt was limited by the ideas of his times. The post Book Review | The Forgotten Bond Between Teddy and the Tribe appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Join award-winning filmmaker Oren Rudavsky for a conversation about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and Rudavsky’s new film "Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire." The post Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire <span class="zoominars_title">with Oren Rudavsky and Nadine Epstein</span> appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Some moments change the future. The post Moments That Have Shaped American Judaism appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
For our 50th anniversary, we went back to the beginning. The post The Moment Time Capsule appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
