Book Review | From Half a Line to Hebrew Heroine
Feldman not only recovers these female characters but brings together the traditional rabbinic commentaries on these marginal or marginalized women.
From the Newsletter | When the State Serves Death
This week, Moment covers two planned executions.
In October 2018, Robert Bowers killed 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburg, PA, the deadliest...
Comic | Learning to Dance with AI
For the past seven years, I’ve been writing and drawing a book about Artificial Intelligence, specifically about a large language model built from a family archive.
Is Artificial Intelligence Good for Humanity?
AI is the brainchild of cognitive scientists, computer programmers and physicists; it raises problems for politicians, journalists and philosophers; and it’s alive in the imaginations of artists, cartoonists and science fiction writers. We’ve asked people from all these fields how best to approach this astounding moment in human history.
Talk of the Table | A Chat with ChefGPT
It was with some trepidation that we decided to bring the matter of food to the great AI Oz.
Sing to Survive: New Jewish Songbook Combats Climate Crisis
This May, climate action organization Dayenu released “Rising Tides, Rising Voices: Songs for the Jewish Climate Movement,” a digital songbook, which brings together a diverse set of songs—Jewish and secular, English and Hebrew, chanted and sung—for Jewish climate activism.
Jewish Word | Beware the Fires of Moloch
In 2012, days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six adults, historian Garry Wills wrote an impassioned essay in The New York Review of Books.
Roundtable | Robots Get Religion
In real life, artificial intelligence may be making great strides, but it’s nothing—at least, as yet—compared to the visions of artificial yet intelligent creatures that live in our literary imagination.
Partly Cloudy Reads for Your Beach Bag
When anxieties are rippling through the culture, novelists can’t help picking up the signal.
Book Review | The Truth Only Fiction Can Touch
After Italian philosopher Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose (1980), to worldwide critical acclaim and instant bestsellerdom, scores of major humanities scholars started thinking about fiction as a possible genre for them too.
Book Review | The Many Layers of Jewish Identity
Forsaking one’s native country for another place can create an odd mix of new and old identities.
