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The Jewish Snitch
by Sala Levin
Earlier this year, Nechemya Weberman, a member of the Hasidic Satmar community in New York, was sentenced to 103 years in...
The Spicy Tale of India’s Jewish Cuisine
Palak paneer, chana masala and the egregiously treif-sounding butter chicken may not scream “Jewish” and were highly unlikely to grace your grandmother’s holiday table. But...
Notable Cookbooks
From Brooklyn to Jerusalem to the Greek isles, a new batch of Jewish cookbooks takes you on a whirlwind tour of Jewish gastronomy.
The Mile End...
2012 Emerging Writers
Meet Johanna Adorján and Adam Schwartz,
winners of Moment's annual Emerging
Writer awards celebrating up-and-coming
literary voices.
Fiction winner Adam Schwartz
Adam Schwartz is a senior lecturer of creative writing...
Jewish Word // Dybbuk
A Ghost from Our Past
by Sala Levin
Fans of the film-making, Minnesota-bred brothers Joel and Ethan Coen were transported back to the old country in the...
The Biggest Jewish Genetic Myths of All Time
We’ve all heard the generalizations and stereotypes. Moment takes a closer look at some of the persistent rumors to find out the truth.
Come And Knock On Our Door, Ira Glass
We thought we couldn't love Ira Glass anymore. The hipster glasses. The public-radio sensitivity. The Baltimore roots. But then he recorded the title story of...
A Vietnamese Yom Kippur
by Kelley Kidd
A Yom Kippur spent fasting on the beautiful island paradise of Phu Quoc, in Vietnam, is not my typical Day of Atonement. But...
The Wandering Jews
by Kelley Kidd
I spent Passover this year in Washington, DC. It was a far cry from the fall, when I celebrated the High Holy Days...
Beating the Passover Doldrums
by Kelley Kidd
It is around this time during Passover, as the seder leftovers begin to dwindle, that I begin to rapidly lose interest in the...
A Match Made in the O.R.
by Sala Levin
The dating ritual is replete with anxieties: What dress to wear? How long should I wait to call after the date? Is my...
The Food of Great Fiction
Here a Roth, there a Stein, everywhere a Kafka—Jews are the people of the book, a group that has long prized its own erudition and...