26 Jun

Poetry, Summer 2025

Poems | This Is My Mother’s House; On the Day of Atonement

Posted by Yehuda Amichai

June 26, 2025

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What poetry can offer—image by image—is different from, and more intimate than, knowledge.

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16 Apr

Spring 2025

Poem | The Poem’s Journey

Posted by Myra Sklarew

April 16, 2025

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Remembering Myra Sklarew and her poem "The Poem's Journey" which was published in Moment half a century ago.

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19 Jan

Arts, Culture, Poetry, Winter 2025

Poem | Ellipsis, Genesis

Posted by Joanna Chen

May 28, 2025

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“In the beginning,” there was beauty and bounty…exile and fury. To reread Genesis in our era of intractable wars and mass displacements is to recognize...

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14 Nov

2024 November/December

Poem | The Findings of Yitzhak

Posted by Jean Nordhaus

November 21, 2024

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“I find it difficult to understand, wrote Yitzhak, why the sun is greater than the moon.”

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27 Sep

Fall 2024

Poem | “Leadership”

Posted by Robert Pinsky

September 27, 2024

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"Violence afoot. He wouldn't move, but Grace... Said "Sit down, Honey" and he did and there was peace."

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30 Jul

Arts, Culture, Poetry, Summer 2024

Poem | PRISONER Z

Posted by David Biespiel

May 28, 2025

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“Prisoner Z” conjures a dystopian world that exists today in countries we can name.

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25 Apr

Arts, Poetry, Spring 2024

Poem | The Leaves

Posted by Rachel Mennies

May 28, 2025

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This poem by Rachel Mennies looks to the leaves for signs of resilience and finds them “more alive” for having braved the dark.

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26 Jan

Featured, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Winter 2024

Poem | Kaddish for the Living

Posted by Jessica Jacobs

February 19, 2024

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What does it mean to be “dead / but not”—marooned on the border between being and having been? In “Kaddish for the Living,” a daughter...

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28 Nov

2023 November/December, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Poem | Still Life with Nazi-Looted Art

Posted by Jared Harél

November 28, 2023

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In hidden bunkers. In gleaming museums.

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27 Nov

Arts, Culture, Featured, Israel, Latest, Poetry

Poetry | Reheat, by David Israel Katz

Posted by Maura Pellettieri

May 28, 2025

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David Israel Katz writes us into spaces that negate sense, and importantly, negate our impulse to try to locate sense.

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14 Sep

Fall 2023, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Poem | The Hidden

Posted by Marcela Sulak

September 15, 2023

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The terebinth tree in the Arava is at least a thousand years old, as was her mother before her.

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13 Jul

Featured, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Summer Issue 2023

Poem | The Mysteries

Posted by Linda Pastan

July 17, 2023

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How to explain the poem that writes itself after the final poem, after the book has closed?

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