From the Editor | A Season of Self-Reflection
Every year I look forward to reading submissions to the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest.
From the Editor | Learning from Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov’s work is foundational to much of modern AI. But his robots were programmed to be truthful, and the programming mostly worked.
From the Editor | Finding a Balance Between Israel and the Diaspora
The Jewish past and future demand both a homeland and a diaspora, and it is our ongoing responsibility to find a balance between them.
From the Editor | First Encounters of a Hateful Kind
Everyone remembers the first time they encountered religious, ethnic or racial hatred.
From the Editor | The Eighth Night: A Time to Remember Great Women
The story of Hanukkah, the annual festival of Maccabean might and miracles, doesn’t talk much about women, although two are occasionally associated with the holiday.
From the Editor | ‘Make for Yourself a Rabbi’
Recently, my three-year-old began starting every sentence with the qualifier “I feel like”: “I feel like I had a good day at school,” “I feel like we should go to the park now,” “I feel like I want to color.”
From the Editor | A Passover Call For Empathy
It is hard to believe we are about to celebrate our third COVID Passover.
From the Editor | Elie Wiesel and Two Girls He Never Met
Shortly before Elie Wiesel, one of Moment’s two cofounders, died in 2016, I had an appointment to visit him in New York.
From the Editor | The Place Where We Are Right
I have been editing Moment for so long now that I can close my eyes before a story is published and see the letters to the editor and comments that we are going to receive.
From the Editor | We Can No Longer Take Enlightenment Values For Granted
2021 has turned out to be another unpredictable year. As wave after wave of news stories reporting death and mayhem rolled over us, I found myself thinking about the Enlightenment.
From the Editor | The Miracle That Is Jewish Jokes
Believe it or not, I grew up in a Jewish family that didn’t tell jokes.
From the Editor | The Blessings of Community
My father died peacefully on a wintry morning this February. The day before, there was a snowstorm, and he spent hours watching the flakes fall outside his kitchen window.