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November/December Issue 2026

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The New Era of Jacked Jews

BY SAM FRANZINI

MOMENT-KARMA SHORT FICTION CONTEST
‘A Hot October Day’

BY HARRIS KAUFFMAN

OPINIONS


Why My Play Didn’t Open in Chicago

BY NAOMI RAGEN

Who Are We?

How Jews became the ultimate test case for citizenship and exclusion

 INTERVIEW WITH LILA CORWIN BERMAN BY AMY E. SCHWARTZ

Yes, We Need to Track Antisemitism in the Arts

BY AMY E. SCHWARTZ

MOMENT DEBATE


Should Jewish Identity Be Classifed as an Ethnicity?

DAVID BOCARSLY VS. SAMIRA K MEHTA 

JEWISH WORD


No Matter What, Baruch Hashem

BY ELLA GORODETZKY

ASK THE RABBIS


In the Jewish Tradition, What Constitutes Meaningful Work? 

BY MOMENT

TALK OF THE TABLE


The Sweet & Sour Story of Iraqi Jewish Food

BY VERED GUTTMAN

LITERARY MOMENT


Book Review | The Lansky Legacy: The Life and Letters of Meyer Lansky

BY ROBERT SIEGEL

Book Review | Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe

BY MICHAEL BRENNER

Book Review | The Golden Age of the Italian Jews: 1848-1938
and
The First Ghetto: Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism

BY CARLIN ROMANO

MOMENT POETRY


‘Nina, Sasha, and Liuba Sneak Across the Border’

BY BEN JASNOW

VISUAL MOMENT


A Lithuanian Homecoming

BY JACOB WIRTSCHAFTER

FROM THE EDITOR


Journalism, Ahead of the Curve

BY NADINE EPSTEIN

THE CONVERSATION


The Conversation

BY MOMENT

CAPTION CONTEST


Caption Contest

BY BEN SCHWARTZ

SPICE BOX


Spice Box

BY MOMENT

SPONSORED CONTENT


Holiday Reading Guide

BY MOMENT

Higher Learning Guide

BY MOMENT

Nazi-Stolen Art Returned to the Heirs of Sophie Heilbronner

BY DOMNINIK BOHNEN