Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (The Great Gatsby Edition)
Been on the Internet today? My guess is yes. In that case, you've probably seen the trailer for Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby....
The New Religious Intolerance: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
From Switzerland’s ban on minarets, to France’s ban on headscarves, and the controversy that raged over Park 51, the “Ground Zero Mosque”...
Remembering Sholom Aleichem
by Kara A. Kaufman
It’s not every day that you see your own photograph in a newspaper, much less a Russian publication printed halfway around the...
Amar’e Gets Animated
First there were New Yorker cartoons with Kanye West tweets. Now there are Moment cartoons with Amar'e Stoudemire tweets. No explanation should be necessary.
Recovering Messiah: Marc Maron
If ever there was a tale of comic resurrection, it belongs to Marc Maron.
The 48-year-old comedian’s climb back from drugs, drinking and despair—with a lot...
A Vietnamese Yom Kippur
by Kelley Kidd
A Yom Kippur spent fasting on the beautiful island paradise of Phu Quoc, in Vietnam, is not my typical Day of Atonement. But...
Thousands of Little Pharaohs: The Plight of the Agunah
By Martin Berman-Gorvine
In this Passover season, consider the plight of Jewish women whose marriages have ended but whose (former) husbands refuse them a get (bill...
A Match Made in the O.R.
by Sala Levin
The dating ritual is replete with anxieties: What dress to wear? How long should I wait to call after the date? Is my...
Gershom Gorenberg: An Open Letter to American Rabbis
The incident repeats itself with small variations. A rabbi somewhere in America writes to ask if I’ll come speak to his congregation about Israeli politics...
Double Exposure
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...
A Scanner Messianically
R. Justin Stewart may not be the first artist you’d expect to be behind a work called “Distorting (a messiah project, 13c).” The self-described atheist...
Changed from Darth Vaderberg at Ellis Island
Breaking news in "people you didn't know were Jewish": Darth Vader. Yes, some Lucasphiles say that Darth Vader's chestplate (right), revealed in The Empire Strikes...