Telling it Slant: Fiction After October 7
In Hebrew at least, October 7 fiction has been all but missing in action.
Talk of the Table | The Pizza Bagel
Whether or not you view the pizza bagel as deeply ingrained in our cultural consciousness, the pizza bagel’s origin story is a mess of competing claims.
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The Stories Behind the Stories
We asked several of our award-winning contributors to provide insight into their writing process and how their articles came to be.
Poem | The New Year
Cohen’s spare poem passes through the disorientation of loss from “the first autumn... without her” to the following summer, season of abundance and decay.
When the Black Press Stood by the Jews Against the Nazis
Hitler’s hatred of anyone “non-Aryan” was not lost on Black Americans and the Black press.
Jewish Word | Judea and Samaria: A Palimpsest of Sorts
The term “Judea and Samaria” has never been merely a geographic marker and is deeply intertwined with Jewish history.
Visual Moment | A Grogger, a Bong and a Pair of Red Shoes
YIVO’s current exhibitions carry visitors back to a lost world through displays of the art, artifacts and accoutrements that formed the essence of Eastern European Jewish life.
From the Editor | Welcome to the Moment Multiverse
What is Moment’s mission? And what’s a magazine in today’s world anyway?
Moment Debate | Are the Jews One People?
The core of our theology is that we evolve, God evolves, reality evolves for the better. I want to believe that we all believe that.
What Would Astonish a Time Traveler From Your Denomination Visiting the Year 2075?
In 2075, people will have learned to live together, to respect each other despite differences in opinion, religion and ethnicity.