One of the first things that six-year-old Alysa Stanton noticed when her family moved into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was a rectangular ornament affixed to the doorpost of her new home. Her uncle Edward, a “devout Catholic who went to shul...
The American Jewish thought police are quick to label sympathy a betrayal of Israel....
The Intersection of Politics and Satire. A Moment Symposium Robert Mankoff Political satire is ridicule dedicated to exposing the difference between appearance and reality in public life. The justification for this mockery, going back to Aristotle, is that by holding bad behavior up to ridicule we might, as...
Who Said What? 1 | “Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” 2 | “I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.” 3 | “I don’t care if you think I’m racist. I just want you...
Meet Johanna Adorján and Adam Schwartz, winners of Moment's annual Emerging Writer awards celebrating up-and-coming literary voices. Fiction winner Adam Schwartz Adam Schwartz is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Wellesley College whose fiction has appeared in The New Yorker. A Stranger on the Planet follows the life of...
3AM Nign she sang as if looking through the magnifying glass lullaby’s every heave, a thesis on slowing down, peeling – each note, a pit assessing its fullness lullaby’s underside, hymn to darkness (sleep no longer a goal but a side-effect) of the dream’s reaffirmed primacy two silences on each side of her amplifying the...
by Natalie Buchbinder It's tough to make a horrific event that happened over 70 years ago relevant to young people. It's the struggle that Holocaust museums and March of the Living tours to concentration camps have attempted to address. A recent New York Times article profiled young...
Mayim Bialik is speaking out about the benefits of a meat-free diet in a new ad for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Bialik, star of “The Big Bang Theory” and a longtime vegan, says much of the inspiration behind her decision to...
National Shtetl Radio? That's the lineage that David Brooks imagined for himself and Robert Siegel--newly discovered by Moment to have genetic ties that might make them fourth cousins--last week on NPR's "All Things Considered." What kind of shows would NSR air? "All Pogroms Considered," Brooks...