Series Archives

2013 January-February, Ask the Rabbis, Jewish World

Ask the Rabbis: Does Jewish anxiety have a theological basis?

July 25, 2019
By Amy E. Schwartz
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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...

2012 November-December, Food, Talk of the Table

Lox: An American Love Story

February 9, 2022
By Eileen Lavine
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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...

2012 November-December, Fiction, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction // Roots

July 31, 2023
By Joan Leegant
1 comment

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...

2012 November-December, Ask the Rabbis, Latest, Religion

Ask the Rabbis // What Makes Someone a “Real” Rabbi?

July 25, 2019
By Moment
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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,...

2012 July-August, Arts & Culture, Issues, Talk of the Table

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...

2012 July-August, Big Questions, Culture, Issues, Series

Is There Such a Thing as the Jewish People?

July 25, 2019
By Moment
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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...

2008 September-October, Ask the Rabbis, Religion

Ask the Rabbis | Does Politics Belong on the Bima?

August 1, 2019
By Moment
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Does politics belong on the bima?

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2012 May/June, Arts, Food, Issues, Series, Talk of the Table

The Food of Great Fiction

July 25, 2019
By Sala Levin
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Here a Roth, there a Stein, everywhere a Kafka—Jews are the people of the book, a group that has long prized its own erudition and...

2012 May/June, Ask the Rabbis, Issues, Religion, Series, U.S. Politics

Ask The Rabbis | Will It Matter to Jews If There Is a Mormon President?

July 25, 2019
By Justin Sovine
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INDEPENDENT Historically, the religious affiliation of a governmental leader has never been an issue for the Jewish people, as long as the government involved was not...

2012 May/June, Culture, Israel, Israel's Arab Citizens, Issues, Staff Picks, Uncategorized

Double Exposure

July 7, 2015
By Justin Sovine
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By Yoav Stern A Moment Magazine Special Series Israel's Arab Citizens Israel’s Arab citizens consume both Arabic and Hebrew newspapers, radio and television. But when it comes...

2012 March-April, Ask the Rabbis, Issues, Religion

Ask the Rabbis | Are Jews Still Expecting a Messiah?

December 28, 2021
By Moment
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INDEPENDENT Very few of us ever expected the Messiah. We spent most of our history hoping for one. And one day, indeed, the dove will return...

2012 March-April, Fiction, Issues, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction // Infections

August 2, 2023
By Dalia Rosenfeld
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This story is the second-place winner of the 2010 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize authors...

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