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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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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Know a kid who loves to read and write? Tell her about Moment’s annual Publish-A-Kid contest, in which we invite

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Know a kid who loves to read and write? Tell her about Moment’s annual Publish-A-Kid contest, in which we invite

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I read Les Misérables when I was 25, studying at the London School of Economics. I was searching for my path. I’d spent several years as a journalist and was considering trying to make a go of it as a foreign correspondent. ...

Not long ago, my eldest granddaughter celebrated her bat mitzvah—two months shy of 60 years after I celebrated mine. I

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The 49th state was built by Jewish people, Jewish money and Jewish know-how. And although their numbers are small, Jews

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