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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An array of thinkers answer this taboo question. Among them: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Senator Joe Lieberman, sociologist Robert Putnam, legal theorist Noah Feldman, poet Marcia Falk, mathematician Robert Aumann and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. ...

By Scott Fox Last week, Canada’s Consul General came to talk at my school (Carleton College in Minnesota) about the

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by Sala Levin The Holocaust, as Michael Scott so wisely taught us, is one thing we just can’t joke about.

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If you ask professors why they need tenure, the first words out of their mouths will undoubtedly be some variation

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by Beth Kissileff Helen Schulman is the author of novel This Beautiful Life, her fifth novel, which takes on the

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by Symi Rom-Rymer David, the recently released feature film directed by Joel Fendelman and written by Fendelman and Patrick Daly,

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Moment‘s annual Short Fiction and Memoir Contests are currently accepting submissions! The Moment-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, established in 2000,

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By Steven Philp It goes without saying that these are trying times. Yet it is in the face of crisis

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Richard Wagner, the lauded 19th-century German composer of operas such as Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal, had an anti-Semitic streak.

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By Steven Philp It has been five quiet years since Lamb and Lynx Gaede stepped out of the national spotlight—ending

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by Sala Levin The shocking, but not surprising, news of British singer Amy Winehouse’s death at the cursed age of

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Why is Moment, a magazine of Jewish politics, culture and religion, devoting space to the Roma, especially when there are so many issues of direct interest to the Jewish people to explore? ...