Fiction // The Girl of the Comet
‘Not Very Pleasant’
For years, a one-dimensional view of Israel has poisoned the environment for Jews in Britain’s national students’ union. After an official investigation, will the situation improve?
Talk of the Table | A Chat with ChefGPT
It was with some trepidation that we decided to bring the matter of food to the great AI Oz.
Ask the Rabbis | What Impact Will Artificial Intelligence Have On People’s Spiritual Lives?
Artificial intelligence has been around ever since we plucked the fruit off the branch of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and came away with clarity around neither.
Visual Moment | Photographer Richard Avedon’s New Take on the Group Portrait
Sometime in the late 1970s, my father-in-law, who owned a bookstore in Chicago, arranged a book-signing party for the photographer Richard Avedon.
Beyond Bagels and Lox: Writing about Jewish Lives in the 21st Century with Allegra Goodman and Amy E. Schwartz—in celebration of the Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest
We discuss how Judaism is and is not portrayed in fiction today and about the influence of religion, spirituality, community and assimilation on today’s Jewish author
Fiction | Chelm, NJ
Fiction | Night of Broken Glass
Fiction | Arguing with Reinfeld
Visual Moment | Israeli Artist Sigalit Landau’s Immersion in the Dead Sea
The art Landau has created in this primal moonscape, the lowest land-based elevation on earth, explores the dualities of life and death, injury and healing, destruction and hope—a central theme of the current exhibition and a motivating force behind Landau’s art.
Ask the Rabbis | What Does Israel Reaching 75 Mean in the Context of 3,000 Years of Jewish History?
These 75 years of the existence of the State of Israel do not just resolve 2,000 years of exile but bring to a climax 3,000 years of Jewish history.