Two side by side self portraits of Man Ray in profile, intently adjusting the focal range on his view camera as if for a portrait session. He directs the camera in the photograph at the audience, while the camera taking his picture remains invisible.

Visual Moment | Man Ray in Paris

Walking through the exhibition of artist Man Ray’s photographs at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is like stepping into a time machine. ...
dates

Talk of the Table | The Satisfying Sweetness of Dates

When I need a sweet, satisfying nibble, I often pick up a date. ...
Black and white photo of piano with sheet music for short story by Rona Arato

Fiction | Polonaise

The music of Chopin brings together a mysterious young Hungarian Holocaust survivor and an American music student. But just when romance is in the air, he vanishes. ...
Jewish brisket

Talk of the Table | A Tale of Two Briskets

If you grew up in an Ashkenazi Jewish home, you might remember the delicious oven-baked brisket your mom served up for holidays. ...
A visual of two groups of people split by a gorge, over which hangs a huge needle with a dose of medicine inside of it. On one side of the gorge, a crowd of people performs everyday activities. A sign is planted in the ground that says "DEUT 30:19: CHOOSE LIFE." On the other side, three people seem to be panicked and distressed.

Ask the Rabbis | How Do You Deal With People in Your Community Who Don’t Want to Get Vaccinated?

I don’t. It is not my place to nudge people to get or not to get vaccinated. ...
Judy Chicago breaks the gender barriers of the arts world.

Visual Moment | Judy Chicago’s Revolutionary Art

Judy Chicago always wanted to be an artist. “From the time I was a child,” she writes in her 2021 autobiography, The Flowering, “I had a burning desire to make art.” ...

Fiction | Private

Today, another of my usual jogs—the thousandth step of a thousandth run, every run varied enough to include something new. ...
Bundt Cake with Icing

Talk of the Table | The Bundt Is Born

In 1950, Rose Joshua and Fannie Schanfeld met with H. David Dalquist, owner of the Scandinavian cookware manufacturing company Nordic Ware, to discuss a proposal. ...
Illustration of the Uyghur Genocide in contrast with the Holocaust.

An Inconvenient Genocide

In the 1930s, America failed to stand up to Nazi actions against the Jews. Will history repeat itself with the Uyghur minority in China’s Xinjiang region? ...

Visual Moment | The Compelling Odysseys of Looted Art

In the sumptuous catalogue for the New York Jewish Museum’s late summer exhibition, Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art, on view through January 9, 2022, a cropped image of French artist Pierre Bonnard’s color-diffused painting Still Life with Guelder Roses appears alongside an army photograph of the salt ...

Ask the Rabbis | How Can We Avoid the Trap of Self-Righteousness?

Everyone wants to be right—in the right way. What’s the line between striving for moral perfection and being a jerk? ...

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

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 ...