JPVP Debate | Why I Am Voting For ….
Since August 2019, Moment’s Jewish Political Voices Project (JPVP) has been following 30 politically engaged Jewish voters from battleground states.
Spice Box: Take Two, and Call Me in Seven Days
Send your unmarked original newspaper clippings, curiosities and photographs to editor@momentmag.com.
Book Review | A Poet Talks to Hashem—and Trump
Alicia Ostriker’s new collection comprises selected poems from seven previous volumes. Ostriker has been an important poet for the past 45 years.
Book Review | The Other Side of Dementia
If you live long enough, you will notice a paradox of aging: Diminishment of memory can sometimes go hand in hand with a greater capacity for complexity and for the kind of revelation that can be seen only through shadow.
Fiction | The Anniversary Camera
I learned photography from the streetcar man. “Windows to life,” Mr. Stilson had professed. “Humanity on paper.”
Jewish Word | Jews of Color
While “Jews of color” is not an exclusively American term, it was born of this country’s complex interrelationship between race and identity.
Are We Moving Towards a Better Society—or Regressing?
In this challenging, chaotic time, there are moments when many of us, even optimists, fear that society is regressing.
The Woman Who Drove Old Dixie Down
Eileen Filler-Corn, Virginia’s first female—and first Jewish—Speaker of the House of Delegates, is playing a key role in dismantling the state’s Confederate legacy, statue by statute.
What Will Happen to the Hitler-Haus?
By the curb in front of the three-story yellow house at Salzburger Vorstadt 15, in the picturesque town of Braunau am Inn in northern Austria, stands a memorial stone taken from the quarries of the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Moment Debate Round Two | Is Small Government Still Possible?
“I don’t think there’s a lot of evidence that the U.S. response to the pandemic was disappointing because the government was too small.”
Talk of the Table | Fasting for Body and Soul
Eitan Okun only eats between the hours of 8 and 10 p.m., or, on days when he rides his bike, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Smashing Idols, Then and Now
The demolition of a statue, the withdrawal of public adulation for the erstwhile hero the statue commemorates, has echoes of a fundamental Jewish principle: the injunction against graven images.