Nadine Epstein

3 weeks 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.

2 months ago | 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.

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.

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.

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.