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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Shortly after my bar mitzvah in 1943 at the Great Synagogue of Copenhagen, where my father had arrived from Czechoslovakia in 1934 to be the chief cantor, the roof caved in with all the uncertainties, terror and threats of annihilation. My family, along with some seven to eight thousand Danish ...
Avi knew his sister would take the news badly. Seven years his junior, Avi’s sister was given to fits of feeling, storms of wild emotion. This evening, as Avi awaited his sister in his home, he adjusted the plates at the dining room table, wiped the insides of wine glasses ...
Foie gras—the controversial and expensive delicacy described by the renowned food encyclopedia Larousse Gastronomique as “one of the jewels in the crown of French gastronomy”—is made from the liver of a specially fattened duck or goose ...
The (Jewish) Sixth Sense By George E. Johnson In his autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me, Marlon Brando writes at length about
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By Diane M. Bolz Maimonides Illuminated One of the finest and most elaborate illuminated Hebrew manuscripts in existence is now
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Reviewed by Clyde Haberman ...
Reviewed by Jonathan Brent ...
The restless architect and designer who dreamed up TED hasn’t stopped inventing new ways of organizing information in search of what he calls “the God of understanding.” ...
Reviewed by Glenn Frankel ...
Jews and coffee share an invigorating history. ...
Beshert: Is destiny the best way to choose a mate? ...
In the Studio with Dave Marash Dave Marash is on the air, seated at the news anchor desk in a
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