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29 Jul

Latest, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest: Why We Still Write Holocaust Fiction

July 30, 2021
By Moment
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Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest presents:

Authors Ruby Namdar (The Ruined House), Ruth Franklin (A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction) and Moment editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein (Elie Wiesel: An Extraordinary Life) discuss the enduring power–and perils–of Holocaust fiction.

Prior to the conversation, the 2020 Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest winners read excerpts from their stories:

1st place – Omer Friedlander, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

2nd place – Linda Brettler, Private

3rd place – Rona Arato, Polonaise

21 Jun

Arts & Culture, Featured, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Summer Issue 2021

Fiction | The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

July 26, 2021
By Omer Friedlander
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Simcha was the man who sold air from the Holy Land, not to be confused with those unimaginative con artists who sold oil from the Oily Land or water from the Dead Sea.

14 Jun

Summer Issue 2021, Talk of the Table

Talk of the Table | Meatballs Cursed by Jews

Among the pages of a medieval Middle Eastern cookbook lies a 600-year-old recipe with a title equal parts perplexing and alarming: “Meatballs Cursed by Jews.”

09 Jun

Ask the Rabbis, Jewish World, Summer Issue 2021

Ask the Rabbis | Does Absolute Evil Exist, and If So, What Does It Look Like Today?

June 18, 2021
By Moment
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Evil was introduced the moment God looked at Creation and “saw that it was good!” For the existence of good implies the existence of evil, just as big implies small and cold implies hot.

23 Mar

Food, Spring issue 2021, Talk of the Table

Talk of the Table | The Horseradish Chronicles

May 13, 2021
By Nadine Epstein
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I slumbered eyes-open through childhood seders, bored out of my mind, wondering if that meant I was the Wicked Son, or in my case, the Wicked Daughter, who counted even less.

21 Mar

Arts, Spring issue 2021, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | Sacred Art from an Italian Ghetto

April 19, 2021
By Diane M. Bolz
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In the middle of the 18th century in the city of Ancona on the Adriatic coast of central Italy, a young Jewish girl, about age 15, produced a stunning work of embroidery.

15 Mar

Ask the Rabbis, Jewish World, Spring issue 2021

Ask the Rabbis | Post-Pandemic, What Elements of Virtual Judaism Will We Keep?

April 5, 2021
By Moment
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In 2018, as synagogues pondered livestreaming some services for the convenience of infirm relatives, we asked the rabbis to contemplate what was surely a distant, speculative future: “What role should virtual presence play in Jewish ritual and community?”

19 Feb

2021 January/February, Talk of the Table

Talk of the Table | A Persian-Flavored Purim

April 5, 2021
By Diane M. Bolz
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This year for Purim, which begins on the evening of February 25, why not celebrate with a dish that evokes the setting of the Megillah (the story of Queen Esther) in ancient Persia?

18 Jan

2021 January/February, Arts & Culture, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | A Biblical Family Torn Asunder

April 5, 2021
By Frances Brent
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Some works of art are perfect receptacles for the stresses and troubles of their times while they are graced with a wisdom that is fundamental and ongoing, making them perpetually relevant.

12 Jan

2021 January/February, Ask the Rabbis, Jewish World

Ask the Rabbis | Jewish Ethics and Electronic Surveillance

April 5, 2021
By Amy E. Schwartz
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Some issues dominate the news; others drift along under the radar. This is literally true of electronic surveillance, a worldwide and quickly growing force that could profoundly change our lives.

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