Ask the Rabbis | How Do We Balance Civility With Disapproval For Others’ Politics?
We should learn from our sages.
Spice Box | Own it
Send your unmarked original newspaper clippings, curiosities and photographs to editor@momentmag.com.
Poem | PRISONER Z
“Prisoner Z” conjures a dystopian world that exists today in countries we can name.
The Conversation
Characteristically, Moment has brought fresh air to this subject.
Book Review | Is Motherhood Bigger Than Reality?
What is it about motherhood, especially early motherhood, that has been propelling novelists lately toward the surreal and the supernatural?
Visual Moment | Camille Pissarro and the Birth of Impressionism
The first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris on April 15, 1874 and included five paintings from Camille Pissarro.
Israel: Voices and Visions
As part of Moment’s Israel Vision Project, I’ve talked with about 70 Israelis from diverse backgrounds and from different points on the political and religious...
Live From Tamiment
The Jewish summer resort in the Poconos served as a boot camp for Broadway and launched some of the biggest names in mid-century American entertainment.
Book Review | Love and Fear Drove a Dogged TV Pioneer
This fascinating, dense and lengthy volume, sets Barbara Walters’s life in context with detailed descriptions of the world in which she maneuvered and the contradiction between her public and private personas.
The Laugh
A physics professor is approached by a stranger in São Paulo and is pulled into a metaphysical mystery.
Summer Reads for Sun—and Shade
Spies in the Warsaw Ghetto! Ob/Gyns on Everest! Handmaids of Ancient Canaan!
Six Days Without Waze
Moment’s editor-in-chief zigzagged around Israel asking Israelis across a wide spectrum to articulate their visions for the country’s future.