By Moment Staff Let us start by asking: Is there such a creature as a Jewish writer? Jewish mothers gave birth to Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud, but these idiosyncratic giants of mid-20th-century American fiction consistently suggested that they were not Jewish writers but rather Jews...
By Eric Wasserman At the end of 1995, I briefly dropped out of college. It was an unpleasant time, to say the least. I kept asking myself who I was and, foolishly, desired answers. When I returned to school six months later I thought it might...
In honor of the Academy Awards, Moment looks back at some “Jewish” Best Picture winners of yesteryear. Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) The dashing Gregory Peck built his career around playing men of principle and conviction; To Kill a Mockingbird’s Atticus Finch, after all, is a paragon of justice and courage....
by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil The triple-level, double penthouse on Park Avenue in Manhattan has been on the market for two years, with a price tag of $5.5 million. “Have you come for the open house?” the butler asks when I arrive, and looks disappointed when I...
September/October 2009 mar09cover Features From Arab to Palestinian Israeli Dina Kraft In the first of a Moment series on Israel's Arab citizens, we meet three generations of one family. Unlike her grandmother and mother, Sham Kalboni, 35, is a political activist. Still, she has no intention of leaving the country...