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Every year I look forward to reading submissions to the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. ...
If you’re in a room full of mainstream Jews who hew to the uncritical AIPAC line about Israel, you undoubtedly know that “apartheid,” “racist” and “fascist” are three words you can’t say about the Jewish state without risking denunciation, cancellation or total excommunication from the tribe. ...
In 1970 The New York Times ran an article about the secret language of New York City police officers. ...
In 1974, Martin Peretz and his wife Anne bought The New Republic with her money. ...
A tradition at my friend’s Passover seder is for guests to go around the table and say what they would carry with them when leaving Egypt. ...
For more than four decades after he was suddenly and unceremoniously removed from participation in the 100-meter relay race at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Marty Glickman—then a young athlete, later a beloved voice of New York sports radio—vaguely and quietly chalked up the greatest disappointment of his life ...
If Israel wants to discriminate against Palestinian Americans, that is its prerogative. But the United States can’t allow special rules for some U.S. citizens and not others. ...
"Way back when I was a normal yeshiva boy playing rabbi, I thought I was right about gay men not really being gay and that they should stop this nonsense and get right with Torah and find a nice Jewish girl. Until one day." ...
Cutting off aid would benefit us by saving us from ourselves. ...
"I was blinded by my own style and habit and thus late to see that this government is different, this coalition is different, this opposition is different, and this crisis is very different." ...
This story is the second place winner of the 2022 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the ...