Moment Magazine's 2022 Awards Gala: A Night to Celebrate!

Moment’s 2022 Gala

“A country that has long been a refuge is now turning into a battlefield, and in these perilous times authentic fact-based even-handed journalism that gives voice to the truth and allows many voices to be heard is more essential than ever. That’s what Moment strives to do in every issue. Its calm, well-informed voice of reason is an act of faith and courage. Moment is an island of sanity in a raging sea.”

– Glenn Frankel, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and member of the board of Moment’s Daniel Pearl

Investigative Journalism Initiative.

ORDER OF EVENTS

Pre-gala Program

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The State of the World and Moment

Robert Siegel, Master of Ceremonies

Nadine Epstein, Moment Editor-in-Chief & CEO

Awards

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AWARD

Connie Krupin

Featuring Connie in conversion with her son, Stephen

MITCHEL AND GLORIA LEVITAS LITERARY JOURNALISM AWARD

Cynthia Ozick

Remarks read by Dara Horn

ROBERT S. GREENBERGER JOURNALISM AWARD

Remarks by Scott Greenberger

Featuring Emily Bazelon in conversation with Amy E. Schwartz

CREATIVITY AWARD

Max Weinberg

Featuring Max in conversation with Nadine Epstein

CREATIVITY AWARD

Mindy Weisel

Featuring Mindy in conversation with Jack Rasmussen

WOMEN & POWER AWARD

Ambassador Oksana Markarova

Featuring Amb. Markarova in conversation with Robert Siegel

RUTH BADER GINSBURG HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD

Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt

Featuring Amb. Lipstadt in conversation with Robert Siegel

Special Musical Performances

Volodymyr Sukhin

Max Weinberg

Closing Remarks

Robert Siegel, Master of Ceremonies

Nadine Epstein, Moment Editor-in-Chief and CEO

MOMENT IS...

Arare independent entity in the Jewish world, Moment is a thriving print and digital magazine known for its first-rate journalism, cultural and literary criticism, and signature symposiums. It was cofounded in 1975 by Leonard Fein and Elie Wiesel and has been led by Nadine Epstein since 2004. Based in Washington, DC, Moment is more than a magazine. It is also home to the Elie Wiesel Legacy Project, the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative, the Antisemitism Project (including the Antisemitism Monitor ), the Jewish Political Voices Project, the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, Mo mentBooks and MomentLive!

“An indispensable read for those of us seeking informed commentary on Jewish life, stripped of the factionalism and shrillness that all too often drowns out thoughtful discussion these days.”

—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

RECENT MOMENT AWARDS

Moment Magazine won 20 Simon Rockower Awards from the American Jewish Press Association this year including first place for Excellence in Enterprise or Investigative Reporting, and first place for excellence for Writing about Social Justice and Humanitarian Work. It was also named story of the year by the Religious Newswriters Association.

WELCOME TO MOMENT’S

VIRTUAL GALA

Gwen Zuares

“Moment maps the values that drive our lives, values like religious freedom, social justice and cultural expression. Were it not for the commitment of its talented staff, it would not be possible to produce such a quality magazine.

CONNIE KRUPIN

MOMENT COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AWARD RECIPIENT ARTIST & MOMENT BOARD MEMBER

Artist, author, illustrator, designer, mother, grandmother and philanthropist, Connie Krupin has long been dedicated to preserving Jewish tradition, history and educating future generations. Connie’s book, A Time To Be Born: A Jewish Baby Journal was created to educate as well as entertain young Jewish parents and children. As an active participant in the Washington Jewish Community, Connie has served on the boards of schools, universities and many other fine and performing arts organizations. Her work as a painter and illustrator has been exhibited in juried art shows in galleries and private collections.

CYNTHIA OZICK

MITCHEL & GLORIA LEVITAS LITERARY JOURNALISM AWARD RECIPIENT WRITER & PUBLIC

INTELLECTUAL

Her first published novel, Trust, appeared in 1966, followed by five more novels, fourteen collections of short stories and essays, and two plays. She has received the highest honors in the literary world for her powerful and chal lenging prose: three O. Henry prizes, fellowships from Guggenheim and the National Endowment for the Arts, two PEN awards, and a National Book Critics Circle Award.

MAX WEINBERG

MOMENT CREATIVITY AWARD RECIPIENT DRUMMER, E STREET BAND

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame drummer Max Weinberg has served as the drum mer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band since 1974. From 1993 until January 2010 Mr. Weinberg also led the band and was the Music Director of NBCTV’s “Late Night” and Tonight Show” franchises. As an actor he has played recurring roles on CBS TV’s “Hawaii Five-O” and “Blue Bloods.” Outside the performing sphere Max recently completed a two year term as a member of Delray Beach, Florida’s Planning & Zoning Board where he put his interest and experience in real estate development to use in advancing his city’s Master Plan Development aspirations.

MINDY WEISEL

MOMENT CREATIVITY AWARD RECIPIENT ARTIST & WRITER

Mindy Weisel, an internationally renowned artist, author and speaker, was elected into the Smithsonian Archives of American Artists in 2000. Her works are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American Art, Oxford University and the Israel Museum, among many other public and private collections. Mindy is the author of Daughters Of Abscence: Transforming a Legacy of Loss; and Touching Quiet: Reflections in Solitude. She is also a member of the United States Art in Embassies program. Weisel lived and worked, for over forty years, in Washington, D.C. and now resides in Jerusalem with her husband.

ROBERT S. GREENBERGER JOURNALISM AWARD

This award is named in honor of Bob Greenberger, the highly respected former Wall Street Journal reporter known for his rigorous coverage of labor, economics, foreign affairs and the Su preme Court and his deep love of reporting and writing. Bob was also a contributor to Moment, where he helped found Moment ’s Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative. The Greenberger award recognizes journalists who “fearlessly contribute to principled,

independent journalism; who pursue the truth and are undaunted in their efforts to tell the stories that need to be told; and who ensure that all sides of an issue are reported in a fair and civ il manner.” Moment is grateful to the entire Greenberger family for their friendship and support throughout the years. This award was established in 2017. Previous recipients are Jake Tapper, Jane Mayer, Evan Osnos, Michel Martin and Adam Serwer

Robert S. Greenberger was born in Queens, New York. After graduation from Brandeis University he was thrust by his father’s untimely death into his family’s business—a job he didn’t want. Watching an interview with Peter Osnos one night, then a reporter for The Washington Post and a friend from Brandeis, he decided that was what he wanted to do. So with a wife, three young sons, and against his mother’s wishes, he sold the business and applied to Columbia Journalism School. Two years after graduation he joined The Wall Street Journal and was soon on the State Department beat covering the San dinistas in Nicaragua and the Salvadoran Civil Wars. He traveled the world with four secretaries of state beginning with James Baker and ending with Madeline Albright. He covered the fall of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first Gulf War and the innumerable efforts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. After two decades covering the State Department, he capped his Journal career covering the Supreme Court, including the Bush v. Gore decision in 2000. After leaving the Journal he wrote for Moment, ghostwrote the autobiography of former Congressman Steven Solarz, helped establish Moment’s Daniel Pearl Investi gative Journalism Initiative and taught a course on international relations at Goucher College. Most importantly, he has always been a funny, warm, intelligent and outgoing person who dearly loves his family and is dearly loved.

EMILY BAZELON

ROBERT S. GREENBERGER JOURNALISM AWARD RECIPIENT NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALIST

Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School, and a cohost of the Slate Political Gabfest, a popular weekly podcast. She is the author of two national bestsellers published by Penguin Random House: Charged, about the power of prosecutors, and Sticks and Stones, about how to prevent bullying. Charged won the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the current interest category and the Silver Gavel Book Award from the American Bar Association. Before joining the Times Magazine, Emily was a writer and editor for nine years at Slate.

THE RUTH BADER GINSBURG HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD

In September 2019—a year before she passed away—Moment gave Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg its first Human Rights Award at the Yale Club in New York City. The award has now been renamed in her memory.

AMBASSADOR DEBORAH LIPSTADT

RUTH BADER GINSBURG HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD RECIPIENT SPECIAL ENVOY TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM

Deborah E. Lipstadt was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 30, 2022 as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, with the rank of Ambassador. As Special Envoy, she leads efforts to advance U.S. foreign policy to counter antisemitism throughout the world.

Special Envoy Lipstadt has a storied career as a historian, academic, and author. Her numerous, award-winning books include: The Eichmann Trial; Denial: Holo caust History on Trial; Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Mem ory; and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 19331945. She received the National Jewish Book Award three times, most recently in 2019 for Antisemitism: Here and Now. Her biographical study of Golda Meir will be published by Yale University Press in 2023. Read more at https://www.state. gov/biographies/deborah-lipstadt/

AMBASSADOR OKSANA MARKAROVA

MOMENT’S WOMEN AND POWER AWARD RECIPIENT UKRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S.

Oksana Markarova was appointed the Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. and arrived in Washington, DC on April 20, 2021. She served in Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance from 2015-2020 as First Deputy Minister and Government Commissioner on Investments, and later as Minister of Finance. During her time at the Ministry she was a co-author of Ukraine’s macroeconomic re vival program, introduced gender oriented budgeting, and negotiated, struc tured and coordinated two IMF programs and other IFI cooperation programs. During her tenure she and her team also created Ukraine Invest Government Promotion Agency, the Ukrainian Startup fund and a number of government public finance portals, including spending.gov.ua, openbudget.gov.ua and an analytical instrument BOOST, which opened the majority of Ukraine’s public finance data to the public.

ABOUT OUR INTERVIEWERS & SPECIAL GUESTS

NADINE

EPSTEIN AMY E. SCHWARTZ DARA HORN JACK RASMUSSEN

Award-winning journalist Nadine Epstein is editor-in-chief and CEO of Moment Magazine, founder and executive director of the Washington, DC-based Center for Creative Change, founder of the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative, and founder and editor of MomentBooks. Epstein has written and edited books including RBG’s Brave and Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone, read more here momentmag.com/about/#team

Amy E. Schwartz received a degree in literature from Harvard University. She worked at Harper’s Magazine and The New Republic before joining The Washington Post, where she was an editorial writer and op-ed columnist on cultural issues from 1985 to 2002. Schwartz has also lived in and reported from France, Germany and Turkey. Read her writing here.

Dara Horn is the award-winning author of six books, including the novels In the Image, The World to Come, and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007), she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Harold U. Ribalow Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Read more here https://www.darahorn.com/about

Jack Rasmussen is the Director and Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. He previously held Executive Director positions at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Maryland Art Place, and Rockville Arts Place. He was the owner and director of Jack Rasmussen Gallery in Washington, DC. More information can be found on his blog.

ROBERT SIEGEL

MASTER OF CEREMONIES & INTERVIEWER MOMENT SPECIAL LITERARY CONTRIBUTOR

Robert Siegel is the former senior host of NPR’s award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered, the country’s mostlistened-to afternoon drive-time news radio program. With more than 40 years of experience working in radio news, he reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. In 2010, he was recognized by the Columbia Uni versity Graduate School of Journalism with the John Chancellor Award. He has been honored with three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards—one of the most prestigious prizes in broadcast, documentary and digital news. In 2018, Siegel was given the Freedom of the Press Award and the Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a member of Moment’s Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative Advisory Board and is a special literary contributor to Moment.

RECENT MOMENT COVERS

“Moment became a great project. It still is alive, it survived many others. I know that the printed press is going through crisis, but not Moment. Moment stays and is vibrant, attracts good names and good readers—so bravo.”

CO-FOUNDER ELIE WIESEL (1928–2016)

An award-winning

online website at the forefront of the American Jewish conversation and home to an array of innovative projects.

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WALTER MOSLEY

DARA HORN

SIMONIDA PERICA UTH

JUDY GREENBERG

Since 2010,

Moment

and the

Center for Creative Change

has recognized individuals for exceptional creativity in their profession and their efforts to make the world a better place.

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS INCLUDE

Madeleine Albright *z”l Women and Power Award

Yefim Bronfman Creativity Award

Peter Ammon

Ambassador Award Ruth Bader Ginsburg *z”l Human Rights Award

David Brooks Creativity Award Max Brooks Creativity Award

Ezekiel Emanuel Creativity Award Kenneth Feinberg Creativity Award Tovah Feldshuh Creativity Award

Dana Bash Creativity Award

Carol Brown Goldberg Creativity Award

Joshua Bell Creativity Award Huberman Award

Esther Coopersmith Lifetime Achievement Award

Dudu Fisher Creativity Award

Lloyd Goldman

Community Leadership Award

Phyllis Greenberger

Trailblazer Award Emily Haber Human Rights Award

Peter Lefkin Community Leadership Award Judith Leiber Creativity Award Liz Lerman Creativity Award

Tamara Handelsman Outstanding Leadership Award

Robert Mankoff Creativity Award

Theodore Bikel *z”l

International Humanitarian Award

Larry Brilliant Creativity Award

Anita Diamant Creativity Award

Stuart Eizenstat

International Humanitarian Award

Leon Fleisher *z”l Creativity Award Bert Foer Creativity Award

Allan Gerson *z”l Creativity Award

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

Creativity Award

Amy Kaslow

International Changemaker Award

Paul Krugman

Mitchel & Gloria Levitas

Literary Journalism Award

Michel Martin Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award Jane Mayer Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award Joan Nathan Creativity Award

MOMENT MAGAZINE AWARDS

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Creativity

Award

Evan Osnos

Robert S. Greenberger

Journalism Award

Annie S. Totah

International Cultural Ambassador Award

Jonathan Sacks *z”l

Creativity Award

Jake Tapper

Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award

Nina Totenberg

Women and Power Award

Judea Pearl Creativity Award

Steven Pinker Creativity Award

Robert Schattner *z”l Inventor Award

Calvin Trillin Mitchel & Gloria Levitas Literary Journalism Award

Joan Scheuer Lifetime Achievement Award

Sherry & Robert Wiener Community Leadership Award

Robert Pinsky Creativity Award

Leonard Schuchman Community Leadership Award

Paula Poundstone Creativity Award

Jamie Raskin

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Human Rights Award

Violin virtuoso Joshua Bell was a recipient of the 2011 Moment Magazine Creativity Award.

Barton Rubenstein Creativity Award

Adam Serwer

Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award

Robert Siegel Creativity Award Allison Silverman Creativity Award

Elie Wiesel *z”l

Moment Magazine Co-founder Award Peter Yarrow International Humanitarian Award

Gwen Zuares

Cultural Ambassador Award

Moment’s 2022 Gala

“There has been no time in history when journalism has been more important, because today so much information is neither objective nor factual. Moment, however is—and it is here in our community. We need to ensure that it continues to thrive.”

—Joan Nathan, award-winning journalist and cookbook author

SPONSORS AND DONORS

Allianz / Andrew Ammerman / Eat the Change / Kathryn Gandal / Lloyd and Victoria Goldman / Robert and Arlene Kogod / Connie and Jay Krupin / Elizabeth Scheuer and Peter Joeseph / Leonard and Celia Schuchman / Taube Philanthropies / Robert and Sherry Wiener

Pam and Jeffrey Balton / Ken Colen / Linda and Sanford Gallanter / Carol Brown Goldberg and Hank Goldberg / Uri and Myna Herscher / Sharon Karmazin / Annette M. and Theodore N. Lerner Family Foundation / Ann Lewis and Mike Sponder / Joan Scheuer / Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Lynn and Wolf Blitzer / EagleBank / Jonathan Falik / Bert and Esther Foer/ Catherine and Michael Gildenhorn / Scott Greenberger / Diane Troderman and Harold Grinspoon / Diane and Bruce Heiman / Janet Rubel / Larry and Mirian Wolff

MOMENT ADVISORY BOARD

Michael Berenbaum / Bert Foer / Esther Foer / Kathryn Gandal / Michael Gelman / Carol Brown Goldberg / Lloyd Goldman / Terry E. Grant

Phyllis Greenberger / Sharon Karmazin / Connie Krupin / Peter Lefkin / Andrew Mack / Judea Pearl / Josh Rolnick / Jean Bloch Rosensaft

Menachem Rosensaft / Elizabeth Scheuer / Joan Scheuer / Leonard Schuchman / Janice Shorenstein / Walter P. Stern / Diane Troderman

Robert Wiener / Esther Wojcicki / Gwen Zuares

DANIEL PEARL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE ADVISORY BOARD

Mike Abramowitz / Wolf Blitzer / Sarah Breger / Nadine Epstein / Linda Feldmann / Martin Fletcher / Glenn Frankel / Robert S. Greenberger / Phyllis Greenberger / Scott Greenberger / Mary Hadar / Amy Kaslow / Bill Kovach / Charles Lewis / Sidney Offit

Clarence Page / Steven Roberts / Amy E. Schwartz / Robert Siegel / Paul Steiger/ Lynn Sweet

STAFF

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & CEO:

Nadine Epstein

EDITOR: Sarah Breger

DEPUTY EDITOR: Jennifer Bardi

OPINION & BOOKS EDITOR: Amy E. Schwartz

ARTS & STORY EDITOR: Diane M. Bolz

POETRY EDITOR: Jody Bolz ISRAEL EDITOR: Eetta Prince-Gibson EUROPE EDITOR: Liam Hoare DESIGNER: Erica Cash DESIGN FELLOW: Erjon Ajazi

SPECIAL LITERARY CONTRIBUTOR: Robert Siegel

SENIOR EDITORS: Dan Freedman, Terry E. Grant, Dina Gold Diane Heiman, George E. Johnson, Eileen Lavine, Wesley G. Pippert, Francie Weinman Schwartz, Laurence Wolff

DIGITAL EDITOR: Noah Phillips

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR & SENIOR DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE: Pat Lewis ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR / EVENTS: Johnna Raskin

DIGITAL PROJECTS:

Ross Bishton

CONSUMER MARKETING: Nicole Bowman

SPECIAL PROJECTS DIRECTOR: Suzanne Borden

CHIEF OF OPERATIONS: Tanya George ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Debbie Sann

FINANCIAL MANAGER: Jackie Leffyear DIRECTOR OF MARKETING: Ellen Meltzer

SPECIAL PROJECTS ASSISTANT: Molly Foster

COPY EDITOR: Sue Driesen

TRAVEL COORDINATOR: Aviva Meyer

MOMENT INSTITUTE SENIOR FELLOWS: Ira Forman, Nathan Guttman