Moment Magazine Awards

Moment and the Center for Creative Change are proud to be home to an exciting awards program that recognizes individuals for exceptional creativity and achievement in their professions and for striving to make the world a better place. The awards are given out at annual galas in Washington, DC, and occasionally in New York City. Former NPR senior host Robert Siegel is the longtime Master of Ceremonies.

Awards Include:

The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Human Rights Award recognizes people whose work has significantly changed the world for the better. It is named for Justice Ginsburg, who received Moment’s inaugural Human Rights Award in 2019. Following her death, it was renamed in her honor.

The Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award is given in memory of Wall Street Journal reporter Bob Greenberger, and recognizes journalists who champion independent journalism and are undaunted in their efforts to tell the stories that need to be told.

The Mitchel & Gloria Literary Journalism Award celebrates the vision of the late “Mike” Levitas, editor of The New York Times Book Review, the Times’ Op Ed page and other sections, and Gloria Levitas, an anthropologist and prolific writer. It recognizes someone whose writing is a significant part of the American literary experience.

The Moment Magazine Women & Power Award, which recognizes women who use their power and positions to fight injustice and stand up for the rights of all.

The Moment Magazine Creativity Award is given to musicians, actors, dancers, artists and writers whose work expresses and inspires the human spirit.

Other awards include the Community Leadership and Lifetime Achievement Awards.

UPCOMING!

A Night of Brave & Brilliant Women
Nov. 12, 2023
at Adas Israel Congregation
Washington, DC

Honorees, in alphabetical order

Anne Applebaum
Applebaum is staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian, whose most recent book is Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, and an expert on disinformation and 21st century propaganda.
The Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award

Lauren Holtzblatt
Holtzblatt, a senior rabbi at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, DC, has been named one of the 32 most inspiring rabbis in the country. A friend of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she conducted the justice’s funeral service on Sept. 23, 2020 at Adas Israel in Washington, DC.
The Moment Magazine Women & Power Award

Esther Foer
Author, former executive director of Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC and Moment Advisory Board Member.
Moment Magazine Community Leadership Award

Dorit Beinisch
Beinisch, a friend of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is the first woman to become president of the Israel Supreme Court and a leading advocate for an independent judiciary in Israel, a subject that RBG cared greatly about.
The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Human Rights Award

Dara Horn
Horn, an award-winning author & professor, recorded the remarks of last year’s Levitas Award winner Cynthia Ozick.
Mitchel & Gloria Levitas Literary Journalism Award

 New York Awards Dinner
Special Event Honoring Justice Ginsburg
November 2019, The Yale Club, New York

Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Supreme Court Justice
Moment Magazine Human Rights Award
Introduced by Elizabeth Scheuer

Lloyd Goldman
Philanthropist & Moment Advisory Board Member
Moment Magazine Community Leadership Award
Introduced by Dr. Rivka Carmi

Special musical performance by Denyce Graves