Will the Pandemic Change Where We Choose to Live?
If you’re dreaming about a little house in the woods right now, you’re not crazy. You’re practical.
Why Max Brooks Blow Torches His Door Knobs
The best-selling author of World War Z and disaster preparedness expert offers advice for how to stay safe from Covid-19 over the next year—and prevent the next virus from wiping out millions.
Seven Species Salad & other Shavuot Specialties with Vered Guttman
Chef Vered Guttman shows viewers how to make feta and eggplant burekas pie, seven species salad, Romanian malai and Israeli cheesecake while discussing the harvest holiday of Shavuot.
Zooming in on Jewish Practice After COVID-19
Fighting the mortal danger of COVID-19 might have posed an existential threat to the life of the Jewish people, were it not for the digital...
Share Your Homemade Challah with Moment!
Do you have your own favorite challah recipe? How about some baking tips and tricks you *swear* guarantee perfect loaves every time? Share them in the comments and spread your wisdom to the rest of us challah-lovers.
What to Watch: ‘The Restaurant,’ Swedish Cuisine, with a Jewish Flavor
When The Restaurant launched in Sweden in 2017, the website Drama Quarterly said that the series “is as brave, bold and ambitious as they come. A sprawling ensemble drama that opens in the aftermath of the Second World War and runs across two decades, it is an emotion-filled family saga that charts the fortunes of the owners and staff of Djurgårdskällaren, a high-end restaurant in the heart of Stockholm.” The show’s first season won the Kristallen Award for Best Swedish TV drama.
Stolen Legacy—Nazi Theft and Jewish Repatriation
When she was growing up in England, Moment senior editor Dina Gold used to listen to her grandmother’s stories about her glamorous life in 1920s Berlin and of her dreams of one day recovering the building which, she claimed, had been stolen from the family by the Nazis, Dina talks about her search to unearth the details of her long-dead grandmother’s claims and the legal case she launched to recover the property.
Anti-Semitism Monitor April Findings
April was the month when the global anti-Semitism news became largely associated with conspiracy theories that linked the Jewish people to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anti-Semitism Spreads Among Anti-Lockdown Protestors
There have also been several other reports of swastikas and Nazi references in protests across the country, most of them aimed at Democratic governors who have refused to ease the lockdown guidelines until their states see a significant decline in coronavirus spread.
Is it a case of ignorance or of anti-Semitism?
Funny You Should Ask with Bob Mankoff
Former New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff shows how his Jewish heritage helped him become a successful cartoonist.
Locked Down No More?
At this point, the restrictions are being eased—and Israelis are becoming increasingly doubtful that we should be taking the remaining restrictions seriously.
The Girl in the Blue Sweater: One Pandemic later
A year later, we speak every day, staying close during this pandemic. Helena, soon to turn 96, is quarantined alone inside her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. It’s a home filled with memories. Photographs, books and artwork, much of it from her travels, cover walls and shelves. But her kitchen calendar, once abrim with engagements—lunches, dinners, concerts, plays—is now blank.