Thursday , 11 September 2014
  • Our Man in Warsaw: Konstanty Gebert

    Our Man in Warsaw: Konstanty Gebert

    Born in 1953 when Poland was under communist rule,Konstanty Gebert viewed his Jewish lineage as a “biographical accident” until he was 15. ...

  • 2014 Spotlight on Poland

    2014 Spotlight on Poland

    PREVIEW OF THE CORE EXHIBITION OF THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS My personal journey to Jewish identity has taken place by way of the past. Like many immigrants from Eastern Europe, my grandparents and great-grandparents rarely spoke of th...

  • Hungary at the Turning Point

    Hungary at the Turning Point

    It’s a few days before the May 25 European Parliament elections, and the streets of Budapest are awash with colorful campaign posters urging Hungarians to vote for delegates to represent their country in Brussels. It would be a shining display of dem...

  • Test-Tube Burgers: Holy Cow?

    Test-Tube Burgers: Holy Cow?

    In Genesis, God granted humans dominion over animals. In modern times, that dominion has spawned one of the planet’s biggest threats: a livestock industry that spews greenhouse gases, guzzles resources and renders the lives of billions of animals bru...

  • Visual Moment // Pink Phones, Midcentury Modernism & More

    Visual Moment // Pink Phones, Midcentury Modernism & More

    Did you ever wonder about the origin of the distinctive round thermostat that regulates the temperature in your home? Or how about the pink Princess phone every teenage girl once coveted or those eye-catching images that promoted such films as The Ma...

2014 September/October

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Authors Joyce Carol Oates and Alan Cheuse discuss the nature of fiction, writing and dreaming and tw
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Joyce Carol Oates and Alan Cheuse in Conversation
Winners of the 2013 Moment Magazine Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest read from their entries a
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Moment Magazine Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest Winners 2013
Peter Sagal, the host of NPR s news quiz show Wait Wait... Don t Tell Me! plays So You Claim to b
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Peter Sagal Plays So You Claim to Be Jewish
Peter Sagal, host of the NPR news quiz show, Wait Wait... Don t Tell Me! talks about his creative
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Peter Sagal on Creativity and the Brain
The rapid growth of the Internet has sparked robust debate about the boundaries of free speech. Raci
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Moment Magazine Newseum Online Hate Speech Forum
Moment Magazine, North America s premier Jewish magazine, was founded in 1975 by Nobel Prize laureat
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Moment Magazine: An Independent Voice
New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff talks about the satirical industrial complex during Moment Mag
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Bob Mankoff on the Satirical Industrial Complex
Stand up comedian Paula Poundstone jokes about Rick Santorum s sweater vest during Moment Magazine s
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Paula Poundstone on Rick Santorum s Sweater Vest
Stand up comedian Paula Poundstone jokes about how MSNBC preaches to the choir during Moment Magaz
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Paula Poundstone MSNBC Preaches to the Choir
NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg talks about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia s hu
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Nina Totenberg on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia s Humor
New York Times columnist David Brooks talks about whether Democrats or Republicans are funnier at Mo
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David Brooks Who s Funnier, Democrats or Republicans?
Robert Siegel, host of NPR s All Things Considered, and Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor for the New York
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Robert Siegel and Bob Mankoff on Humor in the 2012 Election
Moment Magazine s 2012 symposium, The Intersection of Humor and Politics featured David Brooks, Bo
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The Intersection of Humor and Politics
During Moment Magazine s 2012 symposium, Franklin, Joshua and Jonathan Safran Foer honored their fat
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Bert Foer Honored by Sons Franklin, Joshua and Jonathan Safran Foer
Grammy Award winning violinist Joshua Bell performs with pianist Sam Haywood at Moment s 2011 sympos
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Joshua Bell Performs for Moment s 2011 Symposium
Joshua Bell, Bob Mankoff, Robert Pinsky, Liz Lerman and Zeke Emanuel talk about whether persecution
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Does Persecution Influence Creativity?
Poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky discusses whether creativity is a gift or the result of hard
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Robert Pinsky Is Creativity a Gift or the Result of Hard Work?
Grammy Award winning violinist Joshua Bell explains how he started playing the violin at Moment Maga
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Joshua Bell Explains How He Started Playing Violin
Bioethicist Zeke Emanuel talks about growing up with his famous brothers, Rahm, mayor of Chicago and
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Zeke Emanuel on Growing Up with Brothers Rahm and Ari
Poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky explains the history of Jews and creativity at Moment Magazin
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Robert Pinsky on the History of Jews and Creativity
Zeke Emanuel, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania and former advisor to President Barack
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Zeke Emanuel on Science, Argument and Creativity
Grammy Award winning violinist Joshua Bell talks about why there have been so many Jewish violin vir
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Joshua Bell on Jewish Violin Virtuosos
Dancer and choreographer Liz Lerman talks about the connections between dance, tradition, creativity
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Liz Lerman on Dance, Tradition and Creativity
Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor for the New Yorker, explains the connections between humor and creativit
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Bob Mankoff on the Connection Between Humor and Creativity
Joshua Bell, Robert Pinsky, Liz Lerman, Robert Mankoff and Zeke Emanuel discuss the origins of Jewis
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The Origins of Jewish Creativity

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