Much like the swashbuckling heroes of his popular novels, author Mark Helprin has led a life of great adventure. As a young man, Helprin served in the Israeli army, the Israeli air force and the British merchant navy, and he’s earned his living as an agricultural laborer, a factory worker, a military adviser, a Wall Street Journal columnist, a political speechwriter and much more.
Sarah Breger
We asked four of our favorite chefs to share their recipes for some fabulous holiday fare—plus an accompanying wine.
Ellen Wexler
“Let’s be honest about what occurred: This was a political decision.”
Moment
Tapper spoke of “men of means and power who not only treated women as prey but in all too many cases robbed these women of their dreams.”
Moment
“As we try to stand up for facts and truth and decency, we in the media need to make sure that we don’t give ammunition to those who are seeking to undermine the credibility of the press,” CNN’s Jake Tapper said Sunday when accepting Moment’s inaugural Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award at the National Press Club.
Liam Hoare
Not long after the publication of her acclaimed 1992 historical romance The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag had dinner in a small Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal.
Ira Berkow
In Farewell to Sport, published in 1938, the popular New York Daily News sports columnist Paul Gallico, when departing the world of sports to write fiction (The Poseidon Adventure later became one of his best-sellers), reflected on the wide variety of sports and sports figures he had covered.
When Berkeley professor Daniel Matt was approached to translate the Zohar, he was more than a little hesitant.
Ross Bishton
Sign up for one of our newsletters and be eligible to win two tickets to hear photographer Marisa Scheinfeld discuss her book, The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland at DC’s National Building Museum on December 21.
Moment
Moment’s 2017 Gala and Awards dinner honored CNN’s Jake Tapper; Peter, Paul & Mary singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow; cookbook author Joan Nathan; and international attorney and photographer Allan Gerson.
Ellen Wexler
“You know when we are talking about surgical operations, we have in mind scalpels. When you talk surgical operations, you seem to think of chisel and ten-pound hammer.”
Anna Selman
I was first introduced to the anti-Semitic trope that “Jews don’t serve” when I was still on active duty. I was showing a superior the hospital that I worked at, and somehow it came to light that I was a Jew.
