Last Call for Entries to Elephant in the Room Contest
Tomorrow is the last day to submit an entry to Moment's 2012 Elephant in the Room Contest, which asks: How has anxiety affected you, your family or the Jewish people in general? Three winners will each receive an iPad, and the winning essays will be published in Moment. This year's contest is a partnership between Moment and the Andrew Kukes Foundation for Social Anxiety. Below are a few excerpts from some of the essays we have received so far; submit your own essay on the contest page here or via email at elephant@momentmag.com.
"Jews have turned to God through the ages, to their laws, to their cultural life-ways, to their sacred texts--for all of these confer the comforting safety of boundaries. Yet the sturdiest of walls have gaps, and at the end of each day one...