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From the Editor // May/June 2016
On occasion, tectonic shifts occur that break apart continents of political thought and reshape them into new ones
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May
Nesse Godin’s Story: “Don’t Let Us Be Forgotten”
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Today, Jewish communities around the world are commemorating Yom HaShoah, the international Holocaust memorial day. Thomas Siurkus, a volunteer from
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Mar
Opinion // It’s Not Just That Hillary Is a Woman
And it’s not enough that Bernie is Jewish. by Letty Cottin Pogrebin eople keep asking Jewish feminists like me which
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Mar
Howard Jacobson Meets Shylock
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Liam Hoare
The Man Booker award-winning British author gives The Merchant of Venice a new twist. And no, he doesn’t think Shakespeare was an anti-Semite.
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Jan
Vanished Jews of Hetta
In the second place-winning story from the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, a Manhattan publicist returns to his sleepy Southern hometown and attempts to revitalize its Jewish life.
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Jan
From the Editor
by Nadine Epstein Late in the afternoon of Friday, November 13, I was in our Washington, DC office finalizing details
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Nov
From the Editor // November/December 2015
uring the Rwanda genocide, I thought about taking in a Tutsi family or adopting an orphan. But I had a
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Sep
Author Interview // Jennifer Weiner
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What makes great literature? Do Jeffrey Eugenides and Stephen King write beach reads or books worthy of the canon—or both? And where do women writers fit in? One of the biggest advocates for breaking down barriers between popular and critically revered books is a writer whose trademark is creating quirky Jewish women who worry about their weight and eventually find true love—and themselves in the process.
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Sep
From the Editor // September/October 2015
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We live in disquieting times. It seems we make progress in creating a better world, and then some of what we achieve slips away. We overcome prejudice, only to find it has metastasized into new forms. That is the story of anti-Semitism today, and it is also the story of other deeply ingrained prejudices.
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Jul
Author Q&A: After Snowden
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Anna Isaacs
Moment spoke with Ronald Goldfarb, editor of After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy and Security in the Information Age about the USA Freedom Act, what it means, and whether Snowden has yet won his battle for privacy.
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Jul
From the Editor // July/August 2015
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When I was in Israel in late 2013, I drove across the rugged expanse of the Negev on Route 31. At the time, Israeli newspapers were full of articles describing highly controversial demolitions of Bedouin homes and villages, failed plans to resettle the Bedouin, and ongoing tensions between the Bedouin and the Israeli government.
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May
Celebrating 40 Years of Moment
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JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH 2015 // Leonard Fein, who passed away in 2014, and Elie Wiesel—both writers deeply concerned about Judaism and Jews—founded Moment to be an independent voice in the Jewish American community.