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Founded in 1975 by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and acclaimed writer Leonard Fein, Moment is North America’s premier Jewish magazine. Moment offers a critical space for thoughtful conversations, fresh ideas and diverse points of view.

12/22/2025

Do being Santa and being Jewish mix? Moment Deputy Editor Jennifer Bardi and Jewish Santa Claus Eric Epstein discussed

“Can We Talk?”Legendary comedian Joan Rivers gave voice to women through the most turbulent and radical cultural shifts ...
12/22/2025

“Can We Talk?”

Legendary comedian Joan Rivers gave voice to women through the most turbulent and radical cultural shifts of the last century. And at the National Comedy Center, you can now see her 70,000 joke-deep file cabinet. https://momentmag.com/heat-index-joan/

12/22/2025

Are Jewish communities safe in America? What can American Jews do to keep their communities safe? Adam Scott Bellos and Menachem Rosensaft debated at a recent MomentLive! Zoominar.

12/19/2025

What does Santa say to a skeptical kid? Jewish Santa Claus Eric Epstein has more.

For adults, the magic of Hanukkah can feel distant. The dreidels don’t spin like they used to, nobody remembers the word...
12/19/2025

For adults, the magic of Hanukkah can feel distant. The dreidels don’t spin like they used to, nobody remembers the words to maoz tzur, and the ubiquity of American Christmas can make Hanukkah feel small by comparison. There is one way to bring it back: returning to a beloved childhood book.
https://momentmag.com/people-of-the-books-hanukkah-throwback/

12/19/2025

Enjoy a moment of Hanukkah joy with legendary Jewish cartoonist Alan Silberberg!

What do we mean, now, when we speak of “the world”? The provocative epigraph that launches Jared Harél’s poem “In Its Im...
12/19/2025

What do we mean, now, when we speak of “the world”? The provocative epigraph that launches Jared Harél’s poem “In Its Image”—a serious romp through millennia—makes us wonder. Virtual realms and AI’s instantaneous answers may transfix us, but poetry still dares us to think for ourselves.

12/18/2025

Antisemitism in Australia didn't start with Bondi Beach. From a recent MomentLive! Conversation

12/18/2025

Is there a safe future for American Jews? Adam Scott Bellos and Menachem Rosensaft discussed at a recent MomentLive! Zoominar.

Australia has long prided itself on being a multicultural society, of which Jews have always been an integral part. This...
12/18/2025

Australia has long prided itself on being a multicultural society, of which Jews have always been an integral part. This weekend’s Bondi terror attack shattered that sense of security . Moment Editor Sarah Breger spoke to Vic Alhadeff, former Chief Executive of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and chair of Multicultural New South Wales about what Australia's Jewish community is feeling at this difficult moment.. https://momentmag.com/there-is-no-going-back-to-before-bondi/

12/17/2025

How Eric Epstein became a Jewish Santa

Norman Podhoretz, the longtime editor of Commentary who passed away last night, embraced a Quixotic role as the grumpy g...
12/17/2025

Norman Podhoretz, the longtime editor of Commentary who passed away last night, embraced a Quixotic role as the grumpy grandfather of the American right, hoping his fellow Jews would follow suit and abandon the political left. In 2013, Robert S. Greenberger wrote a definitive profile on a man some view as “the intellectual godfather of the neoconservative movement.”

Having abandoned the left six decades ago, The 83-year-old former editor of Commentary and grumpy grandfather of the right is still waiting for the

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Moment is a fiercely independent magazine that provides North American Jews with award-winning, in-depth reporting. It transcends ideology and denomination, and delves deeply into the stories that shape our lives: the future of democracy, anti-Semitism on the left and the right, intermarriage and the widening gap between American Jews and Israel.

Moment was founded in 1975 by Elie Wiesel and writer Leonard Fein. It was named after the Yiddish-language Der Moment, founded in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. Der Moment, as Wiesel describes in Moment’s first issue, “became a massive circulation newspaper, and lived until it was murdered together with Polish Jewry.” The Moment founders promised that the magazine would include diverse opinions “of no single ideological position, save of course, for a commitment to Jewish life.” Nearly 45 years later, under the leadership of Nadine Epstein, Moment remains as independent as ever.