Ask the Rabbis: In counseling end-of-life care, what Jewish principles are most valuable?
In counseling end-of-life care, what Jewish principles are most valuable?
Ask the Rabbis // How Should Jews Treat Their Arab Neighbors?
Independent
Although we need to take every precaution against fanatical Muslim Arab terrorism in and outside our homeland, we need to cease forcibly displacing peaceful Arabs...
Fiction // A Beggar’s Place
This story is the second-place winner of the 2011 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize authors...
The Spicy Tale of India’s Jewish Cuisine
Palak paneer, chana masala and the egregiously treif-sounding butter chicken may not scream “Jewish” and were highly unlikely to grace your grandmother’s holiday table. But...
Ask the Rabbis // What Does Judaism Say about Immigration?
In Israel or America, in our homeland or dispersion, we are immigrants and the children of immigrants.
Notable Cookbooks
From Brooklyn to Jerusalem to the Greek isles, a new batch of Jewish cookbooks takes you on a whirlwind tour of Jewish gastronomy.
The Mile End...
Ask the Rabbis: Does Jewish anxiety have a theological basis?
INDEPENDENT
Anxiety is a universal human malady that strikes when we find ourselves at the crossroads of choice-making, equipped with several hefty wagonloads of relativities and...
Lox: An American Love Story
by Eileen Lavine
When I was growing up on the Upper West Side in the 1930s, Broadway was lined with “appetizing” stores, that—unlike delicatessens, which sold...
Fiction // Roots
This story is the second-place winner of the 2011 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize authors...
Ask the Rabbis // What Makes Someone a “Real” Rabbi?
INDEPENDENT
It is the community more than anything else that makes someone a rabbi. If the community finds a person’s teachings and leadership inspiring and enriching,...
The New Gene Cuisine
In Genesis, Jacob asks his father-in-law, Laban, to compensate him for 14 years of unpaid labor. His request is strange: all the speckled and spotted...
Is There Such a Thing as the Jewish People?
Interviews by Moment Staff
Adin Steinsaltz
Jewish peoplehood is always central. It comes before the Jewish nation or the Jewish state. We live in modern times, but...