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Black and white photo of piano with sheet music for short story by Rona Arato
23 Nov
2021 November/December, Fiction, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction | Polonaise

  • July 31, 2023
  • By author-avatar Rona Arato
  • 1 comment
The music of Chopin brings together a mysterious young Hungarian Holocaust survivor and an American music student. But just when romance is in the air, he vanishes.
02 Nov
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From the Archives | Saving General Lee

  • December 7, 2021
  • By author-avatar Arieh O Sullivan
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While you can take the boy out of Mississippi, you can't take Mississippi out of the boy. My jeep had a red and white Rebel Flag on the back spare tire and a plastic statue of General Robert E. Lee stuck on the dash, making it most likely the only Confederate shrine in the Middle East.
'In The Heights' still
26 Oct
Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Latest

‘In the Heights’ Explores the Universal Longing for a Homeland

  • December 7, 2021
  • By author-avatar Sam Gelman
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In the Heights is a love letter to Washington Heights, an upper Manhattan neighborhood that is home to a large Dominican and Puerto Rican population.
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14 Oct
From the Archive

Searching for Normal in Hebron

  • October 20, 2021
  • By author-avatar Glenn Frankel
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IT’S NOON ON A BLISTERING BRIGHT August day in the northern part of the West Bank city of Hebron. I’ve
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with President Biden
23 Aug
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Mr. Bennett Goes To Washington

  • August 25, 2021
  • By author-avatar Nathan Guttman
  • 1 comment
A breakdown of Naftali Bennett’s first visit to Washington as prime minister of Israel.
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08 Jul
Humor, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Latest

From the Archives | Borscht Belt Humor Hits Broadway

  • August 12, 2023
  • By author-avatar Alexander Wohl
  • 1 comment
Borscht Belt humor walks a narrow line between good jokes and bad taste. Alexander Wohl analyzes this sometimes off-color Jewish humor.
Seinfeld jokes
01 Jul
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From the Archives | Are Jews Still Funny?

  • July 8, 2021
  • By author-avatar Lawrence J. Epstein
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In 1979 Time magazine, the quintessential barometer of American life, told the nation that even though Jews made up only 3 percent of the population, 80 percent of America's working comedians were Jewish.
Omer Friedlander story image
21 Jun
Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Summer Issue 2021

Fiction | The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

  • August 21, 2023
  • By author-avatar Omer Friedlander
  • 2 comments
Simcha was the man who sold air from the Holy Land, not to be confused with those unimaginative con artists who sold oil from the Oily Land or water from the Dead Sea.
favorite Jewish joke cover 2
18 Jun
Big Questions, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

What Is Your Favorite Jewish Joke—And Why?

  • August 19, 2024
  • By author-avatar Moment
  • 22 comments
10 Jun
Summer Issue 2021

Memoir | A Secret Identity Revealed

  • December 20, 2021
  • By author-avatar Allan Gerson
  • 1 comment
Renowned international lawyer Allan Gerson writes about discovering his secret identity and uncovering his family's past.
Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett
04 Jun
Israel, Latest

In the Nick of Time: What to Make of Yair Lapid’s Knesset Coalition

  • June 24, 2021
  • By author-avatar Eetta Prince-Gibson
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With just 34 minutes to go before the deadline, Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid party, made the requisite
Israeli Supreme Court
03 Jun
Summer Issue 2021

High Court in the Hot Seat

  • March 14, 2023
  • By author-avatar Eetta Prince-Gibson
  • 2 comments
I am more worried than I have ever been about the future of Israel,” says attorney Dorit Beinisch, former president of Israel’s Supreme Court, as well known in Israel as the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was in the United States.
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