Anti-Semitism Monitor In 2018,
Moment launched an Anti-Semitism Monitor to select, catalog and report credible anti-Semitic incidents around the world on a weekly basis. Developed and curated by Ira Forman, a Moment Institute Fellow and the former U.S. Special Envoy of the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism,
Moment’s Anti-Semitism Monitor is a way for experts and others to track anti-Semitic incidents by date and country as well as the reactions to those incidents.
Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative In 2010,
Moment launched the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative (DPIJI), which gives grants to young journalists doing stories on modern anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice. The DPIJI is in memory of
Daniel Pearl, the
Wall Street Journal reporter, who was murdered by terrorists while on assignment in
Pakistan in 2002. The winners of this contest are mentored by prestigious journalists including:
Wolf Blitzer, Linda Feldmann,
Martin Fletcher,
Glenn Frankel,
Bill Kovach, David Lauter,
Charles Lewis,
Clarence Page,
Robert Siegel,
Paul Steiger and
Lynn Sweet. Fellows have included: Jacob Kushner whose story "Birthright Denied" explored the
Dominican Republic's efforts to take away citizenship from tens of thousands of
Haitians who were born in the country; Eve Fairbanks, whose story "A House Divided" tells the story of the integration and subsequent re-segregation of the dorms at the
University of the Free State in Bloemfontein; Emily K. Alhadeff, whose story "An Olympian Struggle," explores the complex story of anti-Israel campaigns in
Olympia, Washington; Cameron Conaway, whose story "Shadows in the Golden Land" tells the story of the failure of the newly-democratic
Myanmar to end the persecution of the country's Muslim minority; May Jeong, whose story "Strangers in Their Own Land" covered the Buddhist Nationalist attacks on Muslim neighbors in Sri Lanka; Taha Anis, whose article "Persecuted in Pakistan" explored the discrimination and arrests of the
Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in Pakistan.
The Karma Foundation-Moment Magazine Fiction Contest Established in 2000, the annual Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest is open to writers to submit stories related to Judaism or
Jewish culture or
history. Judges have included
Andre Aciman,
Walter Mosley,
Nicole Krauss,
Erica Jong,
Jonathan Safran Foer,
Geraldine Brooks,
Dara Horn and
Nicholas Delbanco.
Moment Cartoon Caption Contest Moment's bi-monthly caption contest for cartoons was founded by former
New Yorker editor and humorist
Bob Mankoff. The magazine asks its readers to suggest captions for the cartoon online and vote for their favorite submission.
Moment Magazine Awards Over the years,
Moment has presented a range of artists, journalists, and public activists with Moment Magazine Awards for excellence in their field. The awards include Creativity Awards, the Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Outstanding Leadership Award, etc. In 2018,
Moment honored
Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the Human Rights Award inaugural recipient and presented Creativity Awards to
Dana Bash, CNN's chief political reporter, and American abstract artist,
Carol Brown Goldberg. In 2017, CNN anchor
Jake Tapper won the Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award for his work as chief Washington correspondent. Earlier winners include
Joan Nathan,
Peter Yarrow,
Wolf Blitzer, and
Steven Pinker. == Awards ==