Election Edition
You may have heard that tomorrow is Election Day. In anticipation, here's a round-up of some of Moment's recent political coverage:
Editor Nadine Epstein explains in...
Barbara Streisand Backs Obama
The National Jewish Democratic Council has released a new ad that features Barbara Streisand explaining why she will vote for President Barack Obama in tomorrow's...
Jewish Weddings in the 21st Century
By Natalie Buchbinder
Finding a Jewish partner has become easier thanks to popular dating website J-Date, tailored to the Jewish search for love. But for millennial...
Mad Magazine Turns 40!
Mad, the American humor magazine founded in 1952, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month. Founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman, a Jewish cartoonist born in Brooklyn, and publisher, William Gaines,...
How Does Satire Influence Politics?
The Intersection of Politics and Satire.
A Moment Symposium
Robert Mankoff
Political satire is ridicule dedicated to exposing the difference between appearance and reality in public life. The...
The Madeleine Effect
Madeleine Albright became secretary of state in 1997. Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton followed.
Has foreign policy become women’s work?
There’s a story Madeleine Albright likes to...
Lox: An American Love Story
by Eileen Lavine
When I was growing up on the Upper West Side in the 1930s, Broadway was lined with “appetizing” stores, that—unlike delicatessens, which sold...
Fiction // Roots
This story is the second-place winner of the 2011 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize authors...
Test Your Jewish IQ // Comedy edition
Who Said What?
1 | “Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
2 | “I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when...
Ask the Rabbis // What Makes Someone a “Real” Rabbi?
INDEPENDENT
It is the community more than anything else that makes someone a rabbi. If the community finds a person’s teachings and leadership inspiring and enriching,...
Clifford D. May: The Mirage of the Arab Spring
The Islamist movement could sabotage democratic reforms in the Arab world.
We Americans are nice people. We don’t like to see anyone living under tyranny. So...
Sarah Posner: If Corporations are people, what’s their religion?
Conservative lawsuits are targeting the Affordable Care Act under the guise of religious freedom