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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  by Rachel Gordan By 1948 it would seem like only one writer had successfully pulled off a popular novel

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Today, the Palestinian enclave of Gaza is known as a flashpoint for conflict that far eclipses its minuscule size. At 140 square miles—sharing an eight-mile frontier with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and hugging Israel’s border for nearly 32 miles—the sliver of desert is only twice the area of the District of ...
A teenager with a big smile grins at the camera. Another waves his hand and keeps moving to stay in the picture. A bearded man is helped down the stairs of a building as groups of young and old crowd the streets of a small town, all anxious to be ...
Rabbi Joachim Prinz’s moment at the podium represented the fulfillment of both the prophetic Jewish role in history and of his life’s journey. ...
On October 27, Moment and the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute partnered to bring a provocative discussion on religion and the Supreme Court. ...

Here, we share what Moment editors are reading and watching, from news to novels. Up this week is senior editor George Johnson, who

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It’s been an eventful month for the gay rights movement. Last Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review rulings overturning bans

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The search for happiness is as old as humanity itself. In Jewish culture, the subject of happiness surfaces in biblical

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Comedian Paul Reiser, best known for the hit 1990s TV sitcom Mad About You, is returning to the New York

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In 2004, the stoic, cowboy-esque Clint Eastwood unexpectedly proved himself more Tevye the Dairyman than Dirty Harry. In response to a reporter’s question about the chances of his movie, Mystic River, winning the Best Picture Oscar, Eastwood cried, “Kinehora!” He explained that it was a Jewish expression used to ward ...
It's almost time for Rosh Hashanah, the sweetest holiday of the year. In case you need a little easing into ...
Moment speaks with Noemi Szekely-Popescu, an oral historian at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum who has collected stories from hundreds of survivors in the U.S. and internationally. ...