Every year, the National Jewish Book Awards honor noteworthy works of Jewish literature distributed in the United States. This year's winners, from Michael Chabon to Meir Shalev, include several authors we've been following here at Moment. ...
"The person in my role has always had a very simple job description: Protect the Jewish people." ...
Novelist Daniel Handler, better known by his pseudonym, Lemony Snicket, surfaced recently to talk with Moment editor Nadine Epstein from an undisclosed location about the troubled Dickensian world he crafted in A Series of Unfortunate Events. ...
The court said that Robinson's Arch, an area currently designated an alternative prayer space, does not constitute equal access, and it gave Western Wall administrators 30 days to explain why women "should not be allowed to pray in accordance with their custom at the traditional plaza." ...
Memory is a funny thing. Memory is something that’s irrecoverably passed, but at the same time, it’s something that we inhabit, and something that shapes us. ...
In an election year, only four of our top stories concerned American politics. Instead, our readers sought out stories about culture, history and complex ideological divides. But most of all, our readers wanted to learn about people. ...
"We try not to debunk the stereotypes from the Jewish side, but instead show the participants how stereotypes work in general." ...
“You are a good person,” he said, and that seemed sufficient for us to be friends—for three decades. ...
There is a rich legacy of recorded music that can only add to our understanding of Hanukkah and our connection to its traditions. ...
"We can sit around the waiting room of life, alternating between staring passively at the ceiling and flipping through old magazines, or we can wait with intentionality, by taking action and making a difference in this world in ways that are important to us." ...
After Donald Trump gave his victory speech in the early-morning hours of Nov. 9, we asked readers a few questions: How do you feel? What does the future look like? What will it mean to be Jewish in Trump’s America? ...
The fires, Israeli politicians insisted, were the result of Arab terror. With no justification, they cast collective blame. ...