The Long and Winding Road to Interfaith Dialogue
by Steven Philp
While the media spent the morning of September 11 replaying footage of the terrorist attacks of that day in 2001, small groups of...
A Boy Named David
by Symi Rom-Rymer
David, the recently released feature film directed by Joel Fendelman and written by Fendelman and Patrick Daly, sets out to tell one story,...
How has secularism in America changed since 9/11?
As part of the Elephant in the Room, we asked Dr. Christopher Brittain how the discussion on secularism has changed over the past ten years:
I...
Kosher Hip-Hop
By Adina Rosenthal
There’s a new, up-and-coming Hasidic hip-hop artist on the block. Nosson Zand is a Boston-born musician who takes pride in the positive and...
Moment’s Elephant in the Room Contest
Entries are coming in for the Elephant in the Room essay contest (https://dev.momentmag.com/elephant.html), in which we are asking for answers to the question "What does...
Moment's Elephant in the Room Contest
Entries are coming in for the Elephant in the Room essay contest (https://dev.momentmag.com/elephant.html), in which we are asking for answers to the question "What does...
Six Degrees of Kosher Bacon Contest
It's a behavior every Jewish person has participated, and all of their non-Jewish friends have witnessed. Jewish geography: the game where—without aid of Facebook—Jews who...
The Jew With Two “Beards”
By Steven Philp
To their neighbors they look like every other Orthodox Jewish couple, a man and woman married for five years with two children in...
The Jew With Two "Beards"
By Steven Philp
To their neighbors they look like every other Orthodox Jewish couple, a man and woman married for five years with two children in...
Tell Us Your Story!
Moment's annual Short Fiction and Memoir Contests are currently accepting submissions! The Moment-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, established in 2000, is an international contest that...
Singing a New Song
By Steven Philp
It goes without saying that these are trying times. Yet it is in the face of crisis that humankind produces its best music,...
Egypt on the Edge
By Adina RosenthalTensions in the Middle East have sadly reached a familiar high. Recently, Gaza militants ambushed Israeli vehicles in southern Israel near Eilat, killing...