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2012 November-December, Culture, Interview

2012 Emerging Writers

July 26, 2024
By Sala Levin
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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...

2012 November-December, Culture

Poem // 3AM Nign

April 26, 2021
By Jake Marmer
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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...

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Reclaiming a Symbol of Destruction, Lawful or Not

April 5, 2013
By momentadmin
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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...

Arts & Culture, Culture, Food, Latest, Misc

Mayim Bialik Goes Vegan

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)....

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David Brooks and Robert Siegel Talk “National Shtetl Radio”

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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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...

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Reborn in Hebrew

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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by Ori Nir I have never thought of my father as a revolutionary. But since his death last month, several of his colleagues depicted him as...

2012 September-October, Culture, Israel

The New Normal

February 16, 2016
By Brian Schaefer
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Swift acceptance of gays by the Israeli Defense Forces in 1993 helped transform Israel into one of the most gay-friendly countries in the world. Moment looks at the history—and the future—of the gay rights movement in Israel, from the rainbow flag-strewn streets of Tel Aviv to the more traditional enclave of Jerusalem.

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Arts & Culture, Culture, History, Latest

Arabian Nights, Jewish Dreams

February 1, 2013
By Moment
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By Martin Berman-Gorvine Janice Weizman’s The Wayward Moonmarks a refreshing departure in the Jewish historical novel, which is all too prone to focus on a limited...

Arts & Culture, Culture, Latest

But Can You Do Israeli Folk Dance To It?

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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by Daniela Enriquez As the men entered in capsule-shaped cubicles, images started to appear across the entirety of the stage-wide screen—all present felt transplanted to a...

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What Would Randy Cohen Do?

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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by Sarah Breger On Monday, at least 5,000 round-trip tickets to Israel from New York on El Al airlines were sold for under $400 (tickets usually...

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Kosher Couture

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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by Daniela Enriquez One of the obstacles Orthodox women face is finding a good "kosher" fashion line, that is wearable and respectful of tradition. Designer Marina...

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Telling Mitzvah Stories

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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by Daniela Enriquez According to halacha, Jewish law, there are 613 mitzvot that a Jew should fulfill during a lifetime. Some of these are daily duties,...

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