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Moses the Black (film)

Moses the Black is a 2026 American crime drama directed by Yelena Popovic, starring Omar Epps, Wiz Khalifa, Quavo, and Chukwudi Iwuji, executive produced by 50 Cent, released theatrically January 30, 2026 by Fathom Entertainment.

Moses V. Chao

Moses V. Chao is an American neuroscientist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose laboratory defined the NGF receptor genes and how neurotrophins act through a two-receptor system.

Moses Wetang'ula

Moses Wetang'ula is a Kenyan politician and lawyer who has served as Speaker of the National Assembly since 2022, after beginning his public service career as a magistrate in 1982.

MOSFET

The MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) is a voltage-controlled semiconductor switch invented by Atalla and Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959 and the basic building block of integrated electronics.

Mosfilm (Мосфильм)

Mosfilm (Мосфильм) is a Russian state-owned film studio in Moscow, founded in 1924, which has produced more than 2,000 feature films, including Andrei Rublev and War and Peace.

Moshav (מוֹשָׁב)

Moshav (מוֹשָׁב), plural moshavim: an Israeli cooperative agricultural village of independent family farms with a shared cooperative association, distinct from the collective kibbutz; first established at Nahalal in 1921.

Moshe Alafi

Moshe Alafi (1923–2023) was an Iraqi-American biotechnology entrepreneur and venture capitalist who financed Cetus Corporation in Berkeley, California, and seeded early biotech companies including Biogen, Amgen, and QIAGEN.

Moshe Arditi

Moshe Arditi is a physician-scientist in pediatric infectious diseases and immunology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for research on Kawasaki disease and innate immune signaling.

Moshe Broderzon

Moshe Broderzon (משה בראָדערזאָן, 1890–1956) was a Yiddish poet, playwright, and theater organizer active in Łódź, where he founded Yung-yidish and ran the cabaret Ararat.

Moshe Dayan (משה דיין)

Moshe Dayan (משה דיין), 1915–1981, Israeli military commander and politician: fourth IDF Chief of Staff (1953–1958), defense minister during the 1967 Six-Day War, foreign minister 1977–1979, architect of the Egypt peace treaty.

Moshe Kasher

Moshe Kasher (born 1979) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author from Oakland, host of Comedy Central's Problematic, Netflix's Live in Oakland and The Honeymoon Stand Up Special, the Endless Honeymoon Podcast with wife Natasha Leggero, and memoirs Kasher in the Rye and Subculture Vulture.

Moshe Katsav (משה קצב)

Moshe Katsav (משה קצב), eighth president of Israel 2000–2007, defeated Shimon Peres in the 2000 Knesset vote, resigned under indictment, and in 2011 became the first Israeli president imprisoned, serving a seven-year rape sentence.

Moshe Oren

Moshe Oren is an Israeli cancer molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for his work on the p53 tumor suppressor protein and elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Moshe Phillip

Moshe Phillip (Hebrew: משה פיליפ) is an Israeli pediatric endocrinologist who has directed the National Center for Childhood Diabetes at Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petah Tikva, since 1997.

Moshe Safdie (משה ספדיה)

Moshe Safdie (משה ספדיה), born in Haifa in 1938, is an Israeli-Canadian-American architect best known for Habitat 67, Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem.

Moshe Szyf

Moshe Szyf is an epigeneticist and professor of pharmacology at McGill University, known for work on DNA methylation and for helping to found behavioral epigenetics.

Moshe Talpaz

Moshe Talpaz is a physician-scientist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan whose work transformed treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia through interferon-alpha and imatinib.

Moshe Teitelbaum (Berach Moshe)

Moshe Teitelbaum, known as the Berach Moshe after his Torah commentary, was the second Satmar Rebbe from 1980 to 2006, under whom the Hasidic group grew to an estimated 100,000 members.

Moshe Teitelbaum (Yismach Moshe), rabbi of Ujhely

Moshe Teitelbaum, known as the Yismach Moshe, was a Hungarian Hasidic rabbi of Ujhely from 1808 to 1841 and an ancestor of the Satmar dynasty.

Moshe Vardi

Moshe Vardi is a computer scientist at Rice University known for automated reasoning and model checking, the Feder–Vardi Dichotomy Conjecture, and honors including the Gödel and Knuth prizes.

Moshe Wolman

Moshe Wolman (1914–2009) was an Israeli physician and histochemistry researcher who co-described the fatal lipid storage disorder Wolman disease in 1956 and established Israel's first electron microscopy unit.

Moshé Yaniv

Moshé Yaniv, also known as Moshe Yaniv, is a molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris known for work on DNA tumor virus chromatin and transcription control.

Moshe Yehoshua Hager (Yeshuas Moshe), Bnei Brak

Moshe Yehoshua Hager (Hebrew: משה יהושע הגר), known as the Yeshuas Moshe, was the Vizhnitz Rebbe in Bnei Brak, Israel, from 1972 until his death in 2012.

Moshe Zakai

Moshe Zakai (1926–2015) was an Israeli electrical engineer and applied probabilist at the Technion in Haifa, known for the Zakai equation and for work in information theory.

Moshi

Moshi is an open, full-duplex speech-native conversational model released by the French non-profit AI lab Kyutai in September 2024, able to listen and speak simultaneously.

Moshi, Tanzania

Moshi is a town on the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, capital of the Kilimanjaro Region and the main base for Kilimanjaro climbs; founded as a German military camp in 1892, population about 222,000 (2022).

Moshiach flag (דגל משיח)

The Moshiach flag (דגל משיח), or Messiah flag, is a yellow Chabad-Lubavitch flag with a blue crown and red Moshiach lettering, first printed in 1994.

Moshing

Moshing, or slam dancing, is violent contact dancing at rock, punk, metal, and EDM concerts in a mosh pit. Known forms include the circle pit and wall of death; it originated in 1980s Washington D.C. hardcore punk.

Moshito Music Conference

Moshito Music Conference and Exhibition, Moshito, is an annual music industry conference and exhibition in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded in 2004 as a pan-African answer to Midem.

Moshoeshoe I

Moshoeshoe I, also known as Moshesh, was a Sotho chief (c. 1786 to 1870) who gathered Difaqane refugees into the Basotho nation from his fortress of Thaba Bosiu.