A Confrontation Between Image and Text

What do you get when you mix a Jesuit publishing company, a Reform Jewish scholar, an Orthodox Jewish painter, and a thesis on human-divine encounters?

Chagall’s ‘Window’ Synagogue: Hadassah Hospital

Upon walking into the synagogue at Hadassah Hospital, one is forced to look up.

A Microcosm of the Afterlife: The Catskills’ Four Seasons Lodge

When Andrew Jacobs heard about a bungalow colony of Holocaust survivors on Geiger Road in the Catskills, his mind unleashed a series of pardonable stereotypes.

Tanach At The Tel Aviv Museum

As an artist, when I visit a museum I relish the opportunity to soak up a gamut of aesthetic experiences; the wonderful array of visual and intellectual stimulation that characterizes looking at any kind of art.

Should We Feel Guilty For Enjoying Holocaust Art?

Some of history's greatest paintings have explored tragedy, from Francisco Goya's "Saturn Devouring his Son" and etching series on "The Disasters of War" to Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" to John Singer Sargent's "Gassed."

Abel Pann At The Mayanot Gallery

We live apart, we Jews − partially, by God's command and partially, because of age-old enmity from non-Jews.

‘To The Land That I Will Show You’: Mapping The Holy Land

Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) imagines a dialogue between the explorer Marco Polo and the emperor Kublai Khan.

A Regal Silhouette: King David The Musical

Light and shadow typically assume moral implications in literature, where light is often divine and dark symbolizes the unknown and the scary.

Ben Wilson: The Roots Of Abstraction

The road one chooses in Art, much like life, does not necessarily determine the final destination.

Is It Creepy To Remember Someone Else’s Tragedy?

There is perhaps a paradox afoot in conventional American Jewish views on Holocaust memory.

Rembrandt’s Abraham: Etchings At Swann Galleries

"And it happened after these things that God tested Abraham and said to him, 'Abraham.' And he replied, 'Here I am.' "

Chanting Kaddish For Willy Loman

When Linda Loman sees that the only people attending her husband Willy's funeral are her sons Biff and Happy and neighbors Charley and Bernard, she wonders what happened to the multitude of mourners that Willy had always promised.

Poussin’s Bible

Near the end of his long and productive life, Nicolas Poussin was commissioned in 1660 to paint an unusual series of paintings called the "Four Seasons".

A Siddur With Word Balloons

Howard Salmon first celebrated his bar mitzvah as a 44-year-old. He and six others attended a class at Temple Emanu-El in Tucson, Arizona, and each one prepared one aliyah of the Torah reading.

The Image Before The Text:

First there was the word. It was spoken on the mountain and we were afraid. Then it was written fire on fire.

Is It Kosher To Laugh At Swastikas?

Swastikas have been popping up lately in the most unusual places.

Warhol’s Jews

When an artist creates, intention - elementary to the creative process - is paradoxically secondary to the finished work.

Solomonic Judgment In Arthur Miller’s ‘The Price’

Pegging Arthur Miller a Jewish playwright is a dangerous enterprise.

A Very Modern Megillah – Megillah Esther by David Wander

Such a nice story the Megillah Esther is, don't you think?

Hungry For Literature And For More Heaven

The opening sentence of Saul Bellow's 1953 novel, The Adventures of Augie March, which begins, "I am an American, Chicago born - Chicago, that somber city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style," arguably did as much as any novel to put Chicago on this century's literary map.

Fantastically Real Kabbalah Paintings

Some artists' iconoclastic, bohemian behavior gets them into trouble.

Megillat Esther: The Graphic Novel By JT Waldman

JT Waldman's Megillat Esther is brash, loud and groundbreaking.

Voluntary And Compulsory Martyrdom: Spinoza And M. Rabinowitz

At first glance, Moritz Rabinowitz and Baruch Spinoza have very little in common.

One Family – Photographs Of Vardi Kahana

The Holocaust was "Ground Zero of the Greenwald-Kahana family."

A Jewish Artist, Whether You Like It or Not

Miriam Beerman's paintings have appeared in more than 100 exhibits, including a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum, a first for a woman artist.

Post-Jewish Painting And Its Discontents

Ludwig Schwarz's 2000 assemblage of seven altered thrift store-bought paintings, "Untitled (Born to Be Mild)," can be said to evoke Piet Mondrian's abstract works, which rely heavily upon a simple palette and the grid.

‘The Name’

To encounter God is an elemental quest of mankind.

Baruch HaShem: Other Views

Lynn Russell's current exhibition at the Chassidic Art Institute challenges us with a piety that resists all easy answers.

Two Eulogies In Paint

Art criticism is often a messy business that has a lot to do with passing judgment.

Athens To Jerusalem: Ghiberti’s Masterpiece

The Gates of Paradise have arrived in New York, and anyone interested in experiencing one of the great masterpieces of the Early Italian Renaissance cannot afford to miss this current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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