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2 weeks 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.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
Ilan Berman is an expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Russian Federation. He is senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council and has provided assistance on foreign policy and national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and congressional offices.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
This great physical universe we inhabit never stays the same, nor can our human world remain the one of our youth. Things change, whether we believe that history repeats itself, or that the arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice, or we simply don’t think about human progress at all. But you are reading Moment, so we know you are pondering the substantial changes to come on and after Inauguration Day.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
As conflicts rage from Gaza to Lebanon to Iran, one country that hasn’t been making headlines is Jordan, Israel’s neighbor to the east. Jordan and Israel share a 300-mile border and a 30-year-old peace treaty, both of which have remained stable, making them regional outliers. What factors account for Jordan’s stability? And can it last?
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
momentmag.com | Nadine Epstein
Elon Musk deserves all the praise he gets for disrupting and reinventing complacent industries. Indeed, he has overseen the revolutionizing of rockets (SpaceX), the streamlining of electric car production and the building of robots (Tesla), the development of an implantable brain-computer interface capable of translating thought into action (Neuralink), and the creation of a satellite internet network that no country can rival (Starlink).
