Spice Box | When J-Date’s Not Good Enough
For frogs and boils, you’re on your own.
24
Jan
24
Jan
Ten Jewish TikTokers
As on other social media apps, there are plenty of prominent Jewish TikTokers who have built platforms for themselves on the ever-growing app.
24
Jan
Poem | Augury
We buy the house next door to my parents, because dread is proportional to the years.
24
Jan
Interview | Max Weinberg, King of the Beat
In a conversation with drummer Max Weinberg, a few things become clear after a beat or two.
23
Jan
The Conversation
I was pleased and surprised to read in Moment’s fascinating Role Model Project article (November/December) that Esther Wojcicki named Varian Fry as one of her role models.
19
Jan
Visual Moment | Tales of Rifles and Resistance
These are the words of Faye Schulman, who, at age 16 during World War II, fled to the forests outside her hometown of Lenin, Poland, after witnessing her entire family being executed by the Nazis.
18
Jan
Book Review | The Journey of a Baghdadi Dynasty
The Sassoons were Baghdadi Jewish merchants whose patriarch fled an autocratic Ottoman governor, first to Iran and then, in 1832, to Bombay (today’s Mumbai).
18
Jan
Talk of the Table | Waste with Taste: Peels, Stems, Tops and More
Recipes designed to minimize waste have been part of Jewish culture for generations.
17
Jan
The Meaning of ‘Semicha’
How did a word that means “leaning” become the way to describe the act of becoming a rabbi?
15
Jan
From Zero to Hate in Just a Tik and a Tok
I created a new TikTok account to see how long it would take for the algorithm to go down the “alt-right pipeline.” The result was shocking.