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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Singer-songwriter LIsa Loeb, whose hit song "Stay" became a cultural touchstone for 90's nostalgia, talks to Moment about how religion impacts her music, her Camp Lisa foundation and her 100 pairs of eyeglasses. ...

The rabbi is dancing and singing, his congregation swooning, his synagogue…absent. We are watching an actor only pretend to be

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In this first installment of "Indie Picks," Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine, owners of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, recommend a few of their favorite books to Moment readers. ...
A Russian immigrant in Jerusalem vanishes, leaving her husband literary clues, from Camus to Austen to Saint-Exupery. Can he decipher the message? ...
Michael Pollan, the poster boy of America’s “new food” movement, talks about the role his Jewish upbringing plays in his approach to food, his disagreements with Leviticus and how cooking for yourself is the key to healthy eating and changing the world. ...

In college, I made the ill-advised decision to join the cross-country ski team. Slow, given to daydreams, and so lacking

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Not long ago, I sat down with Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Moment co-founder Elie Wiesel for a

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he adults had been there for hours—the ones from out of town for days—and they all seemed happy, huddled in

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Children love Shrek, the sweet green ogre and beloved cartoon character who starred, thanks to DreamWorks, in “his” first flick

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Moment talks with artists, scientists and scholars to illuminate the source of human creativity. Interviews by Sarah Breger, Nadine Epstein,

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Saul Friedländer Yale University Press 2013, $25.00, pp. 200 “Dearest Max, my last request: everything I leave behind me…in the

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Venice, Harlem and Beyond   There are few words that so acutely symbolize discrimination as “ghetto.” It was coined in

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