Fiction // How Beautiful Are Your Tents, O Jacob?
This story is the first place winner of the 2007 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize...
From 2009 | Pilgrimage to Uman
"A legion of spanking new white charter buses gleamed in the moonlight, standing by to deliver pilgrims to Uman. Since I was heading the same way, I asked if I might join them, but my gender made me forbidden cargo.
In ‘The Moss Maidens,’ Young Women Seduce Nazis to Kill Them
Putting on The Moss Maidens—the production that won the Best Play and Best Ensemble awards at SheNYC, a recent theater festival—felt particularly cathartic for the play’s Jewish cast and crew members.
Wisdom Project | Lucille Weener, 90
My parents never spoke “Jewish” at home—they wanted their kids to be American. But the year the survivors lived with us, I learned Yiddish in teaching them English.
Book Review | From Half a Line to Hebrew Heroine
Feldman not only recovers these female characters but brings together the traditional rabbinic commentaries on these marginal or marginalized women.
From the Newsletter | Is AI Good for Humanity?
It's the question of the moment.
The launch of the first really convincing artificial intelligence chatbot last November sparked widespread excitement and fear. Suddenly, people were...
Oy, Oy, AI: What ChatGPT Can Tell Us About Jewish Jokes
One thing most people don’t want explained are jokes. BUT, if a joke is already bona fide boffo funny, an explanation might help us appreciate it even more.
Could America Cut Aid to Israel? And Would It?
As Israel continues down a questionable political path, the once taboo question of cutting aid is suddenly on the table.
The Actors and Writers Strike from a Jewish Perspective
Like the previous dual strike, which happened during the industry’s transition to television, these simultaneous strikes are happening at a time of massive transformation in the medium.
Fiction // The Goose Girl
This story is the second-place winner of the 2009 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize authors...
From the Newsletter | When the State Serves Death
This week, Moment covers two planned executions.
In October 2018, Robert Bowers killed 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburg, PA, the deadliest...
Federal Jury Hands Death Sentence to Tree of Life Synagogue Shooter
During the trial, prosecutors called on 60 witnesses, and survivors testified to their horrifying experiences inside the synagogue.