15 Mar

Culture

Getting It All Out in the Open

• May 8, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 7 comments

by Kelley Kidd Jewish husbands, we think, are educated and upstanding, family men who treat their wives with warmth, kindness and respect. Domestic abuse? Not in...

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15 Mar

Uncategorized

Marc Maron: Recovering Messiah

• May 8, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 1 comment

In 2009, Marc Maron was a down-on-his-luck comedian, a man who'd survived alcohol and drug addiction, two divorces and resentment over his friends' successes in...

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14 Mar

Culture, History, Religion, U.S. Politics

How Jerry Falwell Changed the Republican Party

• June 4, 2013
• By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
• 1 comment

By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil Jerry Falwell “stamped out” anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, said Michael Sean Winters, a reporter for the National Catholic Reporter—and no Falwell...

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12 Mar

Culture, Food, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Misc

Sticky Fingers’ Sweets and New York Cheesecake Cupcakes

• June 4, 2013
• By Moment
• 4 comments

By Monika Wysocki A self-described “Jew-talian from New York,” Doron Petersan grew up in the land of Jewish delis, bagels, cannoli and knishes. But after assisting...

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12 Mar

Culture, Food, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Misc

Sticky Fingers' Sweets and New York Cheesecake Cupcakes

• June 4, 2013
• By Moment
• 3 comments

By Monika Wysocki A self-described “Jew-talian from New York,” Doron Petersan grew up in the land of Jewish delis, bagels, cannoli and knishes. But after assisting...

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12 Mar

Uncategorized

Are American Jews Too Fair-Minded to Take Their Own Side?

• May 8, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 1 comment

That's the question posed by Clifford D. May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in the March/April issue of Moment. Citing recent examples...

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08 Mar

Uncategorized

Twenty (Jewish) Questions

• May 8, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 1 comment

by Kelley Kidd Monday night, I sat in traffic in a taxi outside the Washington Convention Center as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) gala...

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08 Mar

Culture, History, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Religion, topics

Aviva Kempner and “The Rosenwald Schools”

• June 14, 2023
• By Moment
• 0 comments

By Monika Wysocki In celebration of Black History Month, the National Archives in Washington, DC hosted a preview of Aviva Kempner’s newest film, The Rosenwald Schools,...

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08 Mar

Culture, History, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Religion, topics

Aviva Kempner and "The Rosenwald Schools"

• February 1, 2013
• By Moment
• 0 comments

By Monika Wysocki In celebration of Black History Month, the National Archives in Washington, DC hosted a preview of Aviva Kempner’s newest film, The Rosenwald Schools,...

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07 Mar

Culture

People of the Jungle Book

• May 8, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 1 comment

Robert Sherman, half of the brotherly duo that wrote songs for Disney movies like "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book," "The Sword in the Stone" among...

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06 Mar

Culture, Moment Magazine, Religion, topics

Religion in the News

• May 8, 2012
• By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
• 1 comment

By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil The biggest religion news stories in 2011 involved tensions with Islam, followed by faith in presidential politics, a new Pew report reveals....

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05 Mar

2012 March-April, Arts, Book Review, Issues

Speaking Volumes | My Spring Break with Philip Roth

• March 19, 2021
• By Eric Wasserman
• 0 comments

At the end of 1995, I briefly dropped out of college. It was an unpleasant time, to say the least. I kept asking myself who...

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