Moment Magazine

There is a moment from 2022 that stays with me. It was just shortly after Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. A frail woman named Sonya, weighing barely 66 pounds, arrived on a stretcher at a senior living facility in Berlin’s Marzahn district. She had been evacuated from the war zone near Kyiv by the Jewish Claims Conference and the American Joint Distribution Committee. It...

I thought Nadine Epstein’s essay “The Word Zionism Is Dead” (Spring 2026) on the many meanings and needed retirement of “Zionism” was excellent. She detailed the history of the term with vigor—not getting ...

Send your unmarked original newspaper clippings, curiosities and photographs to [email protected].

Image submitted by Anonymous

Image submitted by Noah Phillips, B...

There’s no stopping time. The ordinary hours pass, the months—details dimming like remnants of a dream—yet a single encounter may linger in our memories for decades. Leslie Ullman’s “Kingdom” conjures such a moment in a garden strewn with apples. —Jody Bolz, Poetry Editor 

KINGDOM

August again, th...

It’s well-known that time plus tragedy equals comedy, but what if comedy can spring up in the middle of tragedy? If, in the gravest of situations, people still meet on the street to let off some steam?

Filmmaker and writer Rudolph Herzog wrote his 2012 book, Dead Funny: Telli...