15 Sep
gala 2022, Moment Magazine

Moment’s 2022 Benefit & Awards Gala

     Auction       Donate Gala Program    Watch 2022 Gala Thank you to everyone who helped make Moment's 2022 benefit and awards gala a success! You can watch the broadcast here and read through the event program here. We have some auction items available for purchase here. And of course we always welcome your support, which helps ensure that Moment’s important work continues during these challenging times. Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism RBG Human Rights Award Ambassador Oksana Markarova Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Women & Power Award Max Weinberg Drummer, E Street Band Moment Creativity Award Mindy Weisel Artist and Writer Moment Creativity Award Cynthia Ozick Writer & Public Intellectual Levitas Literary Journalism Award Emily Bazelon New York Times Journalist Greenberger Journalism Award Connie Krupin Artist and Board Member Community Leadership Award Robert Siegel Master of Ceremonies Former NPR Senior Host

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30 Jun
Behind The Headlines, Moment Magazine

Moment’s print, website, digital outreach wins top awards

Moment Wins Top Jewish Media Awards Moment Magazine has won 15 Simon Rockower Awards from the American Jewish Press Association, including First Place for General Excellence--Best Magazine for its Summer 2020 issue produced during the lockdown. Moment also won First Place for Outstanding Digital Outreach for its newsletters and social media, and for the second year in a row, First Place for General Excellence--Best Website.  “To be recognized at the same time for our print publication, our website and our digital presence shows that Moment is providing content across platforms to reach our audience wherever they are,” said Moment editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein. “And to have done it remotely shows just how well we’ve grown into this new multimedia age.” The summer issue focused on time; the judges called it “a simply wonderful edition, the obvious winner...that resonated especially...

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14 Apr
Moment Magazine

Moment’s 2018 Publish-A-Kid Contest

ATTENTION: STUDENTS, TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS, PARENTS & GRANDPARENTS Moment is an independent magazine that illuminates the political, cultural and religious complexities of the Jewish world. Our tagline is “The Next 5,000 Years of Conversation Begin Here,” and one of our missions is to educate and engage to expand the Jewish conversation. Moment’s Publish-A-Kid contest encourages children to read and think about what they are reading by writing book reviews! All they need to do is read a book (see list below) and write a 300 word or less review explaining what they think and feel about the book in their own words. Winning entries will be published at momentmag.com (and maybe even in print!) and winners will receive a book selected by our editors. Here are a few questions to get started: Why should other kids or grown-ups read this book? Why is...

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06 Mar
Culture, Moment Magazine, Religion, topics

Religion in the News

By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil The biggest religion news stories in 2011 involved tensions with Islam, followed by faith in presidential politics, a new Pew report reveals. Some of the key findings in the study, “Religion in the News,” include: Religion coverage made up just 0.7 percent of all mainstream media coverage in 2011, down from two percent in 2010 Religion received as much attention as race, gender and LGBT issues Islam made up nearly one-third of all religion news stories last year The top religion stories of the year included: religion in the election, Peter King’s “Radical Islam” congressional hearings, anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, the Westboro Church protests, religion in September 11th commemorations, the Catholic priest abuse scandal and Terry Jones’s Quran burning For more on religion coverage in the mainstream media, Moment speaks with Jesse Holcomb, a research...

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07 Oct
Moment Magazine

Last day to send in your Elephant in the Room essays!

Today is the deadline to submit your entry for the Elephant in the Room contest. Many voices have already joined the conversation, but it's still not complete. Have a different perspective on the question than the ones you've seen here? We want to hear it. Here are a few more excerpts to get you started: “To be Jewish without God means to be able to say ‘I’m Jewish and . . .,’ not ‘I’m Jewish but . . .’ It means I am able to affirmatively state what I do believe and not define myself in contradistinction to what others believe. No sheepish apologies, or defensive postures are offered as I do not need to explain what I do not believe in order to be Jewish.  I am Jewish and I believe in the power and...

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06 Oct
Moment Magazine

It’s All About Culture: The Elephant in the Room

Many writers approached the Elephant in the Room contest by discussing Jewish culture, both as a social and legal community: “What list did was ensure that, whether we believe in God or not, God would remain a central element in the Jewish experience. Law, ethics, traditions are all there as topics to sort out. But God, and  our belief in God, is at the head of the line of Things To Sort Out … Some Jews (and Jewish movements) may ascribe to a lack of belief in God, but that hasn't gotten them off the hook of needing to address (and sometimes debate) their position.” “What we do personally with any aspect of faith … is a deeply personal response. What we can't do is will it … out of existence. We can't behave as if...

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06 Oct
Moment Magazine

It's All About Culture: The Elephant in the Room

Many writers approached the Elephant in the Room contest by discussing Jewish culture, both as a social and legal community: “What list did was ensure that, whether we believe in God or not, God would remain a central element in the Jewish experience. Law, ethics, traditions are all there as topics to sort out. But God, and  our belief in God, is at the head of the line of Things To Sort Out … Some Jews (and Jewish movements) may ascribe to a lack of belief in God, but that hasn't gotten them off the hook of needing to address (and sometimes debate) their position.” “What we do personally with any aspect of faith … is a deeply personal response. What we can't do is will it … out of existence. We can't behave as if...

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05 Oct
Moment Magazine

Questioning the Question: The Elephant in the Room

In proper Jewish tradition, many of the essays we received for the Elephant in the Room contest answered our question with a question: “So there I was, firmly stuck back at the starting point. … I chose to believe in God. But what sort of God should I believe in? My rabbi’s response to this question was, ‘Ask yourself: Which God don’t you believe in?’ So I did. Well, I don’t believe in a personal god, or a god who adjusts the odds of wars or quantum events. I don’t believe in a god that punishes or rewards our souls after the death of our bodies. … And I especially don’t believe in a god who cares if we put sour cream on chicken. So I need my own personal dogma. Here’s what I came up with; what I...

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04 Oct
Moment Magazine

From the Big Bang to Baseball: The Elephant in the Room

Responses to the Elephant in the Room contest have taken us on quite a trip, from the ballpark to the circus to the birth of the universe. Whether you are working on your own entry or just discussing among friends, these visualizations of Judaism may help on your own trip: “The Big Bang occurred 13.9 billion years ago; the Bet that begins the Torah. At that moment everything was an undifferentiated colloid of infinite density and temperature. As the explosion unfolded in the first tiny fraction of a second, the laws of physics and chemistry became manifest and subatomic particles began their organized movement … The power that makes this all happen, that’s God.” “Does this God have a human-like personality such that if we do things like pray or sacrifice goats or do compassionate actions God will...

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