Arts & Culture Archives - Moment Magazine

19 Jul

Arts & Culture, Contest, Fiction, Latest, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Zoominars

Everything is Material: The Influence of Love, Loss and Humor in Fiction and Memoir with Susan Coll, Delia Ephron and Amy E. Schwartz—in celebration of the Moment-Karma Fiction Contest

July 20, 2022
By Moment
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Susan Coll, author of the novel Bookish People and Delia Ephron, screenwriter for movies like You’ve Got Mail and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and author of the memoir Left on Tenth: A Second Chance on Life, discuss the influence of love, loss and humor in the creative writing process. In conversation with Moment book & opinion editor Amy E. Schwartz. A special literary event celebrating the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest celebration.

12 Jul

Arts & Culture, Highlights, Summer Issue 2022, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | A Window in Time: Europe, 1934

July 26, 2022
By Diane M. Bolz
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For eight weeks during the summer of 1934, a 17-year-old high school student from New York by the name of Richard J. Scheuer (known to family and friends as Dick) and his father, Simon, traveled through Europe.

06 Jul

Arts & Culture, Book Review, Summer Issue 2022

Summer Novels to Feast On

July 20, 2022
By Amy E. Schwartz
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Every summer, Jennifer Weiner serves up a quintessential summer novel, effortlessly blending the cozy and the topical and usually sprinkling in some Cape Cod flavor.

06 Jul

Arts & Culture, Book Review, Summer Issue 2022

Book Review | A Madcap Holocaust Holiday

July 6, 2022
By Carlin Romano
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An elderly Holocaust survivor dies and goes to heaven.

06 Jul

Arts & Culture, Summer Issue 2022

New Jewish Kidlit: Beyond the Holocaust and Holidays

July 14, 2022
By Erika Dreifus
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In a recent article in School Library Journal, news editor Kara Yorio observes that for a long time, “[children’s] books about Jewish people or by Jewish authors fit into two categories: the Holocaust and holidays,” while Jewish secondary characters often seemed stereotyped.

06 Jul

Arts & Culture, Book Review, Summer Issue 2022

Book Review | The Temple of Whitefish and Lox

July 13, 2022
By Gloria Levitas
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I lived three blocks from Zabar’s for 50 years.

23 Jun

Arts & Culture, Featured, Latest, Summer Issue 2022

Bulli, In Loving Memory

June 24, 2022
By Fania Oz-Salzberger
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Bulli was a cherished author and a sweetly avuncular, talkative presence in my life. He became a true friend and intimate interlocutor.

21 Jun

Arts & Culture, Latest, Zoominars

What Would God Say? A Comedy Date with David Javerbaum and Michael Krasny

June 22, 2022
By Moment
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How would God spin 21st-century problems? Emmy award-winning comedy writer David Javerbaum, former head writer and executive producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, has a few ideas! Javerbaum serves as “God’s ghost writer” in his new book, The Book of Pslams: 97 Divine Diatribes on Humanity’s Total Failure and is a veteran of other “God collaborations”—the Broadway show An Act of God and the popular twitter account @TheTweetofGod. He is in conversation with Michael Krasny, an award-winning journalist and retired public radio host of KQED Forum and the author of Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means. Come prepared to laugh your heart out!

27 May

Arts & Culture, Latest

Wrestling With Moon Knight’s Judaism

July 1, 2022
By Sam Gelman
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Over the last few years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has made an effort to increase its representation of minorities. Moon Knight, released on Disney+ in March, became the first MCU project to feature a Jewish superhero.

26 May

Arts & Culture, Latest

Pot-Peddling Pensioners

June 17, 2022
By Dina Gold
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In Israeli film Greener Pastures, retiree Dov gets a new lease on life when he begins selling surplus medical marijuana from his fellow nursing home residents on the black market.

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