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momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein |Amy E. Schwartz |Jennifer Bardi |Sarah Breger
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momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
Will he, or won’t he? That is the question that everyone is asking about President Donald Trump, including Donald Trump himself. The question refers to whether he will join Israel in eradicating Iran’s nuclear threat by destroying the Fordow site with America’s GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb.
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2 weeks ago | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
We Jews are time travelers. We spend our lives remembering the past, wringing wisdom from it, then trying to hold onto it. When we’re not ruminating about the past, we’re anxiously scanning the present for danger (especially the past two years!) and worrying about the future. It doesn’t matter that our messianic tradition promises peace and redemption, or geulah in Hebrew, a word referring to deliverance from a difficult spiritual or physical situation.
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2 weeks ago | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
For our 50th anniversary edition, we’re doing some time traveling. First let’s go back to 1975, the year Moment’s first issue (May/June) arrived in the world. It was dreamed up by Moment’s first editorial team, a small group that included cofounders Leonard “Leibel” Fein (editor) and Elie Wiesel (literary editor), along with Carol Kur (managing editor) and William “Bill” Novak (associate editor).
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1 month ago | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
Last night, a few miles from Moment’s office, two innocent young people, a couple about to become engaged, were gunned down and killed as they left the AJC’s annual Young Diplomats reception at Washington, DC’s Capital Jewish Museum. That I even need to write this sentence is shocking. The deaths of Sarah Milgrim, 26, and Yarón Lischinsky, 30, are tragic on a multitude of levels.
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2 months ago | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
One Saturday night not long ago, I went to dinner at a restaurant with a dear friend. He brought along a black leather satchel, his Havdalah kit. When we sat down, he poured wine, lit the braided candle and sang the Hebrew prayers in his sonorous voice.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
As I watched the Trump-Netanyahu press conference in the White House East Room on February 4, I couldn’t help thinking of the first joint press conference with President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held in that very same room on February 15, 2017.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
Happy 50th anniversary to Moment! Fifty years is a long time, but in another sense, if you count from 1910—the year our Yiddish namesake Der Moment was born—we go back 115 years. Either way, it’s an incredible achievement for an independent publication to last this long, let alone flourish and grow. It’s a time for celebration and reflection. First, the reflection: In 1910, ten bearded men gathered in a Polish forest to pose for a photograph.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
Longtime Moment Advisory Board member Joan Scheuer died on Friday, December 27, 2024. She was 103 and a half. I attended her funeral and spoke at it. Here’s what I said, along with a short bio of Joan shared by the family. I will miss Joan greatly. Over the years, Joan had become a big part of my life, a wise friend, a fellow artist and thinker, a mentor, a replacement parent, someone who saw me for who I am and who always encouraged me. By being who she was, she made me—and all of us—better people.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
Now that Jimmy Carter has died, it is time for the American Jewish community to do some teshuvah. Not in the sense of repentance but by taking a moment to reappraise a man who garnered such widespread suspicion and dislike among Jews during his presidency. In February 1978, when the magazine was just three years old,Moment asked readers to weigh in on Carter’s presidency. Some of the responses speak volumes:“Carter is a ‘catastrophe’ as far as a secure Middle East peace is concerned.
