Book Review | My Destroyer, My Meteorite
My Lover, the Rabbi
By Wayne Koestenbaum
Farrar Straus and Giroux, 464 pp.
It could be wisdom, it could be wads of cash, it could be the transgression...
Short Fiction | ‘No Rest for the Middleman’
Two sisters navigate the death of their mother and a years-long estrangement with their father in this Moment-Karma First Place story.
Short Fiction | ‘Immortality’
Two sisters navigate the death of their mother and a years-long estrangement with their father in this Moment-Karma First Place story.
Short Fiction | ‘After Talking, What?’
The following story won First Place in the 2004 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, which was founded in 2000 to recognize authors of Jewish...
Book Review | ‘Happy New Years’
An Israeli-born woman writes one letter per year from America during Rosh Hashanah to a group of women who were her classmates in Israel.
Short Fiction | ‘The Villa on Targova’
In Łódź during World War II, a wealthy factory owner hopes that his wealth and connections will enable him to avoid the fate of his fellow Jews.
Short Fiction | ‘What to Say’
Two sisters navigate the death of their mother and a years-long estrangement with their father in this Moment-Karma First Place story.
From 1975 | A Classical Rebirth
Kastnerr, first of all, was the only child of an inflexibly Orthodox German rabbi who kicked his son out of his house when he first discovered him studying the forbidden wisdom of the Greeks.
Moment’s 2024 Books Gift Guide
Should you give books as holiday presents? Of course you should!
Book Review | The Young, the Rich and the Guilty
"They were the shining realization of the Jewish American dream, people who could load their plates with all that this country had to offer.”
The Laugh
A physics professor is approached by a stranger in São Paulo and is pulled into a metaphysical mystery.
Interview | Why An Atheist Wrote His Debut Novel About a Religious Family
"When a family member becomes unrecognizable, says Lloyd, "that’s a tragedy, and any effort to make complete sense of it is bound to fail."