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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Oliver Sacks opens the door of his lower Manhattan apartment himself because his assistant, Kate Edgar, is in the emergency

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A Bug’s Life 2.0 Rebecca Miller Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2012, $26.00, pp.337 Jacob’s Folly is the fantastically original story

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Will the Real Abraham Please Stand Up? Jon D. Levenson Princeton University Press 2012, $29.95, pp. 244 The synthetic term

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How to Be Black and Jewish Tudor Parfitt Harvard University Press 2013, $29.95, pp. 232 Tudor Parfitt’s last book, Search

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This 1965 44 minute black and white documentary of Leonard Cohen at 30 visiting his hometown of Montreal. He read

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Talking Jewish With Deborah Tannen   It was Thanksgiving 1978 in Berkeley. Some guests brought cranberry sauce, some brought sweet

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Mayim Bialik is speaking out about the benefits of a meat-free diet in a new ad for PETA (People for

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By Martin Berman-Gorvine Contemporary poetry on Jewish religious subjects is rare in America outside the pages of specialized Jewish publications.

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By Martin Berman-Gorvine Janice Weizman’s The Wayward Moonmarks a refreshing departure in the Jewish historical novel, which is all too

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by Daniela Enriquez As the men entered in capsule-shaped cubicles, images started to appear across the entirety of the stage-wide

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By Rebecca Borison For 15 minutes, a group of boys lived their dream. These boys met their idols and played

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By Rebecca Borison Born in Odessa in 1879, Jacob Weinberg was a talented and prolific Jewish composer, who sought to

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