09
Feb
Coloring Dictatorship
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Dina Gold
Film editor Dina Gold reviews the recent Latvian film “The Sign Painter.” The film won four awards at the Latvian National Film Festival.
09
Feb
Jewish Pioneers in Television
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Moment
From the early beginnings of TV in the 1940s, Jews have been at the forefront of shaping the television landscape. Join television historians Walter J. Podrazik and Harry Castleman for a walk down memory lane and learn about the fascinating characters who started CBS, NBC and ABC as well as the creators and actors of some of the most iconic programs such as Your Show of Shows, The Goldbergs [the original series], All in the Family and many more.
08
Feb
Finding Bad People on Both Sides
In this week’s Politics & Power, Nathan Guttman explores the controversy surrounding republican freshman congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
08
Feb
Statement on the passing of former Moment publisher and editor Hershel Shanks
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Hershel Shanks, who edited and published Moment Magazine from 1987-2004, passed away peacefully on February 5, 2021. He was a lawyer turned passionate amateur Biblical...
04
Feb
Beshert | Sitting in the Nosebleed Section
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Larry Miller
It was February 1, 1993. I had just finished shooting a video in Israel for a corporate client. I was an American living in London, separated...
04
Feb
Dr. Seymour Epstein (1921-2021)
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Dr. Seymour Epstein died peacefully on Wednesday, February 3, 2021, a few weeks shy of his 100th birthday, at the home he designed and built for...
02
Feb
Things Calvin Trillin Forgot To Say
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In 1975, journalist and humorist Calvin Trillin wrote about Jacob Schiff and his uncle Ben Daynovsky in the first issue of Moment, trying to figure out why his family entered the United States through Texas and not Ellis Island. Join Calvin, in conversation with Moment’s opinion and book editor Amy E. Schwartz to hear an update on his Jacob Schiff adventures all these years later and what he’s thinking about and working on today.
01
Feb
Poem | First Covid-19 Summer
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Robin Becker
Some of us are lucky. We can swim in a lake. We can walk on a dirt road.
31
Jan
Book Review | The Power of DNA, Dolls and Delis
Last month, The New York Times published a piece called “Saying Goodbye to Hanukkah.”
29
Jan
We Fight to Build A Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz
When you step into the Jewish Museum’s current show, “We Fight to Build a Free World, An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz,” on view through February...
29
Jan
L’Dor v’Dor: Janice Rothschild Blumberg on why Jon Ossoff Was Sworn In On Her Husband’s Bible
On Inauguration Day, Vice President Kamala Harris swore in two new Senators from Georgia—Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Georgia’s first Jewish senator. Ossoff was sworn...
28
Jan
Beshert | Boulders and Olive Trees
It is a few months before I meet my beshert.
I dream. My child’s father has gotten into my apartment. He is in my bedroom. I...