Creating Streetscape Art: An Interview with Simonida Perica Uth
Moment Arts Editor Diane M. Bolz recently interviewed Uth about her latest project for the French Embassy.
Spice Box | “What Am I,” asks Hamm, “Chopped liver?”
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On Poetry | Nelly Sachs and the Poetry of Flight
Sachs dropped the masks that had let her speak through the murdered Jews of Europe and wrote from her own position in the world.
The Conversation
What makes a word Jewish? Every word is Jewish when it has a Jewish story to tell.
Opinion | A Brief Break from ‘To Bibi or Not to Bibi’
Netanyahu has long been the center of Israeli politics. But last week, Lapid finally changed the narrative.
Biden Does Rosh Hashanah
The First-Ever White House Celebration of Rosh Hashanah
Thoughts at the End of a 7-Year Shmita Cycle
Imagine all the people at the end of a shmita cycle...
Midterms ’22: What Our Jewish Voters Are Thinking
With the clock ticking down to midterm elections on November 8, Moment checked in with the participants in our Jewish Political Voices Project (JPVP).
From Undocumented Child to Successful American Jewish Lawyer and Writer with Qian Julie Wang and Sarah Breger
Qian Julie Wang came to America with her parents when she was seven years old, living in the shadows and always looking over her shoulder throughout her childhood. Learning English and surviving the harsh realities of being undocumented, Qian Julie eventually made her way to Swarthmore College and Yale Law School, marrying and converting to Judaism. Wang is in conversation with Moment editor Sarah Breger about her family’s search for the American dream, her connection to Judaism and the struggles and antisemitism faced by Jews of Color from within the Jewish community.
This program is part of a Moment series on antisemitism supported by the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation.
Book Review | A Family of Ambitious Aristocrats
The Morgenthaus, the late New York mayor Ed Koch once said, were “the closest thing we’ve got to royalty in New York City.”
Book Review | Secrets of a Musical Family
Mary Rodgers’s posthumous autobiography is a brash, outrageous and entertaining excursion into the life of its author.
Visual Moment | The Subversive Art of Philip Guston
Frances Brent discusses a new exhibit of Russian-Jewish painter Philip Guston’s sometimes controversial art.