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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In Genesis, Jacob asks his father-in-law, Laban, to compensate him for 14 years of unpaid labor. His request is strange:

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We’ve all heard the generalizations and stereotypes. Moment takes a closer look at some of the persistent rumors to find out the truth. ...

By Rebecca Borison While I grew up at a Jewish summer camp playing Gaga, kids growing up in slightly (read:

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by Kelley Kidd With the new influx of superheroes and comic book characters into film, what was formerly a somewhat

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Been on the Internet today? My guess is yes. In that case, you’ve probably seen the trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s

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by Kara A. Kaufman It’s not every day that you see your own photograph in a newspaper, much less a

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Muscular. Courageous. Bronzed. The stereotype of the sun-kissed sabra is Ari ben Canaan, as played by actor Paul Newman in the 1960 movie Exodus. The word sabra stems from the name of the prickly pear cactus—tzabar in Hebrew and sabr in Arabic—whose thick thorny skin covers a sweet and succulent ...

R. Justin Stewart may not be the first artist you’d expect to be behind a work called “Distorting (a messiah

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By Monika Wysocki A self-described “Jew-talian from New York,” Doron Petersan grew up in the land of Jewish delis, bagels,

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By Monika Wysocki A self-described “Jew-talian from New York,” Doron Petersan grew up in the land of Jewish delis, bagels,

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By Monika Wysocki In celebration of Black History Month, the National Archives in Washington, DC hosted a preview of Aviva

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By Monika Wysocki In celebration of Black History Month, the National Archives in Washington, DC hosted a preview of Aviva

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