Arts & Culture
Living, reading, watching and listening Jewishly—that’s the crux of Moment’s Arts & Culture section. Here you can find book reviews, poetry, fiction, art and music. Don’t miss our fantastic interviews with artists and musicians.
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A remarkable and rare pair of elaborate silver Torah finials have been jointly acquired by New York’s Jewish Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston. ...
“The tradition of sending out greeting cards at the start of the Jewish month of Elul probably dates to the
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The terebinth tree in the Arava is at least a thousand years old, as was her mother before her. ...
This story is the third place winner of the 2005 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the ...
This story is the second place winner of the 2005 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the ...
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Some Jewish artists are unwilling to be confined to what artist Rachel Libeskind calls the “claustrophobic limbo” of Germany’s past. ...
A unique character study follows Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir with a visceral closeness through the tense days of the Yom Kippur War. ...
Luc Bernard was inspired to create the map after seeing the statistic that 80 percent of Americans have not visited a Holocaust museum. ...
By Andi Arnovitz or a long time Keren wasn’t aware that she was dreaming certain dreams over and over. Her
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Putting on The Moss Maidens—the production that won the Best Play and Best Ensemble awards at SheNYC, a recent theater festival—felt particularly cathartic for the play’s Jewish cast and crew members. ...
One thing most people don’t want explained are jokes. BUT, if a joke is already bona fide boffo funny, an explanation might help us appreciate it even more. ...