family Archives

29 Aug

Fiction, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Short Fiction | ‘What to Say’

Posted by

Ilana Marcus

August 29, 2025

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Two sisters navigate the death of their mother and a years-long estrangement with their father in this Moment-Karma First Place story.

15 Jul

Featured, Israel, Jewish World, Latest

Bar Mitzvah on the Fly

Posted by

Janice Weinman Shorenstein

July 16, 2025

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How to cope when war reroutes your family simcha from Israel to Italy.

22 Nov

Israel, Israel-Hamas War, Latest

Tough Talk at Thanksgiving

Posted by

Jennifer Bardi

November 22, 2023

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The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza means that conversations may be especially fraught around the table this year, for multi-generational families of all types and especially for Jewish families.

13 Jul

Opinion, Summer Issue 2023

Opinion | All My Children

Posted by

Naomi Ragen

July 13, 2023

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The protests. The raised fists and raised voices.

A serious woman's face is surrounded by black.

23 Jun

Highlights, Latest, Moment Memoir

Memoir | The One Whose Love Could Not Be Substituted

Posted by

Rose Rosengard Subotnik, David A. Goldberger and Ruth Goldberger Sterlin

July 14, 2023

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On the first anniversary of the Dobbs decision, we mark the lasting impact of an illegal 1914 abortion that was desperately sought and tragically botched.

07 Feb

From the Newsletter, Jewish World, The Wisdom Project

From the Newsletter | Honor Thy Children—and Elders Too

Posted by

Nadine Epstein

February 7, 2023

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The more honoring we do of people of all ages, the better for everyone.

30 Mar

Jewish World, Profile, Spring Issue 2022

Susannah Heschel: The Rabbi’s Daughter

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Manya Brachear Pashman

July 25, 2022

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Following in the footsteps of her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, the biblical scholar is at the forefront of the march toward social justice and reframing Judaism in the tradition of the prophets.

17 Dec

Beshert, Latest

Beshert | The Zoominar Did It

Posted by

Suzanne Borden

December 31, 2021

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When I started hosting weekly zoominars for Moment at the start of the pandemic, I never could have imagined that it would bring my husband, Joe, closer to his birth mother.