WATCH | New Holocaust Museum Opens—In a Video Game
Luc Bernard was inspired to create the map after seeing the statistic that 80 percent of Americans have not visited a Holocaust museum.
From 2007 | Lost in India
At times I feel like I am not among Jews but impostors meticulously reading from a script. At other times, their utter faith makes me question my own.
Exploring Today’s World Through Poetry with Richard Michelson & Amy E. Schwartz
Join Michelson, author of Sleeping as Fast as I Can, and Moment Book and Opinion Editor Amy E. Schwartz for a conversation about “how one acts responsibly in a world that is at once beautiful and full of suffering-balanced precariously on the edge of despair and ruin?”
In the Aftermath of Maui’s Wildfires, a Rabbi-Turned-Farmer Steps Up
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Last week’s wildfires in Hawaii were among the most devastating in American...
Boychik in Blue: An Interview With the NYPD’s Chief Jewish Chaplain
I don’t carry a gun, and I don’t go out and do police work. The job of a police officer is to serve the public. My job is to serve police officers.
Fiction // Three Dreams
This story is the second place winner of the 2007 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize...
Fiction // How Beautiful Are Your Tents, O Jacob?
This story is the first place winner of the 2007 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize...
From 2009 | Pilgrimage to Uman
“A legion of spanking new white charter buses gleamed in the moonlight, standing by to deliver pilgrims to Uman. Since I was heading the same way, I asked if I might join them, but my gender made me forbidden cargo.
In ‘The Moss Maidens,’ Young Women Seduce Nazis to Kill Them
Putting on The Moss Maidens—the production that won the Best Play and Best Ensemble awards at SheNYC, a recent theater festival—felt particularly cathartic for the play’s Jewish cast and crew members.
Wisdom Project | Lucille Weener, 90
My parents never spoke “Jewish” at home—they wanted their kids to be American. But the year the survivors lived with us, I learned Yiddish in teaching them English.
Book Review | From Half a Line to Hebrew Heroine
Feldman not only recovers these female characters but brings together the traditional rabbinic commentaries on these marginal or marginalized women.
From the Newsletter | Is AI Good for Humanity?
It's the question of the moment.
The launch of the first really convincing artificial intelligence chatbot last November sparked widespread excitement and fear. Suddenly, people were...