The Importance of Storytelling in the Black and Jewish Communities with Eric K. Ward, Nadine Epstein, Adam Mansbach and Langston Collin Wilkins

A conversation about the importance of folklore in both the Black and Jewish communities, from the golem and Anansi the Spider to Hip Hop and Jewish Jokes.

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Susan Neiman and Robert Siegel

How the “Woke” Movement is Undermining its own Goals and Unintentionally Pushing Society to the Right with Susan Neiman and Robert Siegel

American Philosopher Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany and Moment contributor Robert Siegel, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered, discuss Neiman’s latest book Left is Not Woke and clarify the dangerous confusion surrounding the word and the movement.

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How Theater Transforms the World with Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody and Gail Merrifield Papp

Join Merrifield Papp, author of the memoir Public/Private: My Life with Joe Papp at The Public Theater, and longtime friends Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody for a conversation about “how The Public Theater became a transformative beacon for social change and of the couple who created it,” and the Yiddishkeit that bonded Papp, Patinkin and Grody.

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Daughter of History: From Holocaust Refugee to American Teenager with Susan Rubin Suleiman

Join Suleiman, a retired Harvard professor and author of the new memoir Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood and Moment Book and Opinion editor Amy E. Schwartz for a conversation about growing up with dueling identities as well as the significance of everyday objects and how they evoke memories of our past.

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Exploring Today’s World Through Poetry with Richard Michelson & Amy E. Schwartz

Join Michelson, author of Sleeping as Fast as I Can, and Moment Book and Opinion Editor Amy E. Schwartz for a conversation about “how one acts responsibly in a world that is at once beautiful and full of suffering-balanced precariously on the edge of despair and ruin?”

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Great Women Yiddish Writers (You Never Heard About) with Anita Norich and Lisa Newman

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4voK3nrNQ]You may have heard the myth that the reason you never hear about great female Yiddish writers is that there weren’t any. If so,...

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A Conversation about the Life and Legacy of Elie Wiesel with Joseph Berger and Nadine Epstein

Former New York Times Journalist Joseph Berger, author of “Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence,” is in conversation with Nadine Epstein, Moment editor-in-chief and editor of “Elie Wiesel: An Extraordinary Life & Legacy.”

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Beyond Bagels and Lox: Writing about Jewish Lives in the 21st Century with Allegra Goodman and Amy E. Schwartz—in celebration of the Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest

We discuss how Judaism is and is not portrayed in fiction today and about the influence of religion, spirituality, community and assimilation on today’s Jewish author

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