Fiction // Three Dreams
This story is the second place winner of the 2007 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize...
In ‘The Moss Maidens,’ Young Women Seduce Nazis to Kill Them
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.
Oy, Oy, AI: What ChatGPT Can Tell Us About Jewish Jokes
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.
The Actors and Writers Strike from a Jewish Perspective
Like the previous dual strike, which happened during the industry’s transition to television, these simultaneous strikes are happening at a time of massive transformation in the medium.
Fiction // The Girl of the Comet
This story is the third-place winner of the 2013 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize authors...
Sing to Survive: New Jewish Songbook Combats Climate Crisis
This May, climate action organization Dayenu released “Rising Tides, Rising Voices: Songs for the Jewish Climate Movement,” a digital songbook, which brings together a diverse set of songs—Jewish and secular, English and Hebrew, chanted and sung—for Jewish climate activism.
From the Archive | More Poetry of Linda Pastan
The following poems by Linda Pastan were printed in Moment between 1975 and 2015.
A SHORT HISTORY OF JUDAIC THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The rabbis wrote:
although...
From the Newsletter | Remembering Poet Linda Pastan
What lyrical poetry can do—but rarely does—sounds impossible. It can blur the distinction between thought and feeling, between speech and song. And though it can’t...
Q&A: The Poems in Progress of Linda Pastan, z”l
In February 2022, Moment interviewed Linda Pastan about her poem, “I Hold My Breath,” published in our November/December 2020 issue. To mark her passing, we’re...
Visual Moment | Photographer Richard Avedon’s New Take on the Group Portrait
Sometime in the late 1970s, my father-in-law, who owned a bookstore in Chicago, arranged a book-signing party for the photographer Richard Avedon.
Poem | The Mysteries
How to explain the poem that writes itself after the final poem, after the book has closed?
Joshua Malina Is a Proud (((Jew)))
After The West Wing, Scandal, and Sports Night, Joshua Malina takes on Leopoldstadt, which is on Broadway through July. Perhaps Hollywood’s most Jew-y Jew, Malina now acts as Hermann Merz, the patriarch of the sprawling Viennese Jewish family.