Are you a good storyteller with an interest in short fiction?
The Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest has been around since 2000.
We consider original short stories—maximum length 5,000 words—with Jewish themes.
Past judges and program guests have included: Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Pinsky, Walter Mosley, Nicole Krauss, Erica Jong, Jonathan Safran Foer, Geraldine Brooks, Andre Aciman and Dara Horn!
Moment will award up to three prizes to outstanding stories, including $1,000 for first place.
Submission deadline is December 1!
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In just over five weeks, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint meeting of Congress, and Democrats are in a bind. Left-leaning Democrats and even some centrists in both chambers are busy trying to figure out the best response to a speech given by a world leader who has not only challenged their party’s leadership but has repeatedly ignored pleas from a Democratic president to change course in the way he’s conducting the Gaza war.
The only real tool Dems have at their disposal is the empty seat.
Those feeling uneasy with Netanyahu’s presence or seeking a way to express their dismay with his actions can simply decide not to show up. As always, we reporters will be there to count the empty seats. Last time Bibi addressed Congress in 2015 to oppose the Obama-led Iran nuclear deal, 58 Democrats were counted as no-shows.
A similar or greater number of empty seats would send a message of dissent, basically telling Netanyahu that a significant portion of one of America’s two parties is so enraged by his actions, they won’t even sit down and listen to him. It will also signal to progressive voters, and to many others who have issues with the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza, that their voices are heard and that they have a place within the big tent of the Democratic Party.
But it isn’t that simple.
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“Many Jews I’ve spoken to, when confronted with the death toll in Gaza since Israel waged war in response to Hamas’s October 7 terror attack, reflexively question the numbers put out by the Gaza Health ministry. This makes some amount of sense, since the Gaza Health Ministry is controlled by Hamas, but dismissing these numbers in the face of what is clearly a humanitarian crisis without an alternative way to quantify the death leaves us nowhere. In any case, mainstream media outlets and NGOs considered credible otherwise rely on these numbers. Whether the true number is more than 35,000, as the United Nations claimed a month ago, or just over 25,000, which was the number of identified bodies (again per the Gaza Health Ministry), doesn’t really matter. Israel’s death toll since October is orders of magnitude less—between 1,000 and 2,000. In fact, according to the Times of Israel, the total number of soldier and civilian casualties in Israel since the country was founded is 30,140. Life within Israel is more politically tense than ever before, but Americans I’ve talked to who recently traveled to Israel say they felt safe and the semblances of normal life are available to people who aren’t either serving in Gaza, in close proximity to someone who is, or displaced from the border regions. This is a world away from the scale of destruction and deprivation in Gaza.
To look at these numbers and disparities or read the testimony of Gazans desperate to flee and fail to understand why Israel is becoming isolated on the world stage, or to reduce the reason to mere antisemitism or discredit the accounts out-of-hand, is willful ignorance.”
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