Moment's annual Short Fiction and Memoir Contests are currently accepting submissions! The Moment-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, established in 2000, is an international contest that encourages writers of all faiths to submit short fiction about a subject related to Judaism or Jewish culture or history....
The Jewish poet Samuel Menashe passed away on August 22; the New York native's work, though beloved by fellow poets, did not receive widespread attention until he received the Poetry Foundation's inaugural "Neglected Masters Award" in 2004. One of Menashe's poems appeared in the September/October...
by Theodore Samets “Of the roughly 17,000 guys who’ve played professional baseball, precious few are Jews.” That was how Scott Barancik, editor of Jewish Baseball News, framed the debate in the New York Times over whether to welcome Ralph Branca to the rather small club of Jewish...
by Theodore Samets Jennifer Rubin is angry. Really, really angry. What’s got Rubin, one of the loudest right-wing voices on Israel in the United States, with her perch at The Washington Post’s blog “Right Turn,” so upset? The American Jewish Committee’s refusal to join eleven other Jewish organizations...
by Charles Kopel “Education is a human right,” declared Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner to an applauding crowd of six hundred last week in the Haifa Auditorium. The audience was gathered for Wikimania 2011, an annual event to celebrate the Foundation's mission and accomplishments, and to...
by Gabi P. Remz Since 1932, when a 50,000-resident town called Tel Aviv hosted the first Jewish equivalent of the Olympics, the Maccabiah Games have drawn the finest Jewish athletes to participate in a wide array of events. This year’s JCC Games, which began on Sunday,...
by Hilary Weissman While studying abroad in Spain this spring. I found myself unintentionally making numerous trips to the southern town of Córdoba– it served as a stop along the way in order to make the most of my EuroRail pass at the end of the...
by Theodore Samets Richard Wagner, the lauded 19th-century German composer of operas such asTristan und Isolde and Parsifal, had an anti-Semitic streak. It was more than just a streak. He discussed Jews throughout his writings, most notably in an essay, “Judaism in Music,” which derided Felix Mendelssohn...
by Sala Levin The shocking, but not surprising, news of British singer Amy Winehouse's death at the cursed age of 27 on Saturday seems to have touched an often-untapped nerve. The sad predictability of her death, the tragic sense it made in the context of her...
by Theodore Samets Summer is a time for sales. It’s a time for vacations. It’s a time to escape work in the afternoon to get to the beach or the golf course. It’s not usually a time for negotiating the final parameters of an agreement between Israelis...
