Art, Culture & Music
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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In this gripping short documentary, we follow Rabbi Arik Ascherman for 24 hours in the West Bank as he risks his own safety to protect Palestinian farmers and civilians. ...
Moment magazine is excited to announce the winners of the 25th annual Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. This year’s
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Pig blood in the kosher cafeteria. / I scuffed it with my shoe. ...
The vertical rotating rotisserie tower of meat is deliciously innovative, but it’s difficult to pin down its Middle Eastern origins. ...
A master of the English language who was not born into it, Stoppard exhibits an arresting verbal dexterity, a mix of joy, wit and wordplay. ...
“The world went into hiding and hid in plain sight.” ...
“As legend has it, you are quite the pyro / You light the match to watch it blow…” —Taylor Swift,
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This year, as Halloween approached, I found myself thinking about The Dybbuk as I scrolled the seemingly endless number of
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Cohen’s spare poem passes through the disorientation of loss from “the first autumn... without her” to the following summer, season of abundance and decay. ...
On Tisha B’Av, as we remember the destruction of the past, we also sit with our present pain. In that stillness, music can be a companion. ...
Empathy is this latest hero's strength, but can the movie leap the anti-Israel criticism in a single bound? ...
What poetry can offer—image by image—is different from, and more intimate than, knowledge. ...