Featured interviews
Interview: What Zombie Expert Max Brooks Can Teach Us About Coronavirus
Moment Magazine, 2020
Max Brooks is best known as the author of the novel World War Z. But he also uses apocalyptic stories to teach us how to respond to large-scale crises.
Interview: Marianne Williamson’s Prognosis for America
Moment Magazine, 2020
Moment editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein and Washington Bureau Chief of The Christian Science Monitor Linda Feldmann interviewed Marianne Williamson, 2020 presidential candidate and the bestselling author of spiritual growth books, to discuss her diagnosis of America’s political ills and her prescription for a health country. Williamson is the only Jewish woman running for president.
Interview: Ehud Barak: An Israel Without Hate
Moment Magazine, March/April 2019
As Israeli elections near, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak speaks out about the meaning of Zionism, a one-state vs. two-state solution and the kind of leadership Israel needs.
Interview: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “The Notorious RBG”
Moment Magazine, May 2015
Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman to join the Supreme Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor, and the first Jewish woman.
Radio Interview: More Than Just a Milkman: Theodore Bikel Remembered
NPR, Interfaith Voices, April 21, 2015
You might know the Jewish actor Theodore Bikel as Tevye the milkman the from Fiddler on the Roof, a role he played onstage thousands of times. But he was a true renaissance man: he was a movie actor, a social activist, a folk singer, a composer and a general force of nature who sang in 21 languages. This week, we’re listening back to our 2011 conversation with Bikel, who died on July 21st at the age of 91. He spoke to the editor of Moment magazine, Nadine Epstein, about fleeing the Nazis, his love of Yiddish, and his deep commitment to Judaism.
Interview: The God of Understanding: Richard Saul Wurman
Moment Magazine, September/October 2013
Architect and designer Richard Saul Wurman is best known for creating TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, the immensely popular series of global conferences aimed at sharing innovative ideas in the fields of technology, entertainment and design. In 2002, after 18 years, he sold TED, which has since expanded into multiple conferences, events, fellowships and prizes, and of course, the now ubiquitous TED Talk.
Interview: Recovering Messiah: Marc Maron
Moment Magazine, March 2012
If ever there was a tale of comic resurrection, it belongs to Marc Maron.
The 48-year-old comedian’s climb back from drugs, drinking and despair—with a lot of help from iTunes—is a modern-day redemption story.
Radio Interview: Leonard Nimoy at 80: 'Practicing Life'
NPR, Interfaith Voices
January 12, 2010
Judaism, Spock and Spirituality — From 1966 to 1969, Leonard Nimoy played Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek series. Those three years as a half-human, half-Vulcan science fiction character would change his life, making him the public face of one of the most popular franchises in television history.
Interview: Aaron David Miller, on Understanding the Historic Israel-UAE Peace Deal
Moment Magazine,
February 2008
Aaron David Miller is a veteran Middle East peace negotiator, analyst and author, now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Miller spoke with Moment editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein about the recent Israel-UAE peace deal.