Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Photojournalist’s Testimony: Photographs By Jerry Dantzic
Posted on: August 13th, 2008
Sections → ArtsLag B'Omer is a communal sigh of relief. Historically the plague that consumed 24,000 of Rabbi Akiva's students in the second century did not include the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer.
Listening To The Paint’s Music: Marilyn Banner’s Encaustics
Posted on: August 6th, 2008
Sections → ArtsMarilyn Banner's encaustic painting "Listening" (2008) at first appears to be ironically titled.
Piety And Art: Zvi Malnovitzer’s Paintings
Posted on: July 30th, 2008
Sections → ArtsPiety and paintings of pious Jews, what a dangerous mix! It takes considerable courage to dedicate oneself to making art, not to mention to do so within the Orthodox community.
A Confrontation Between Image and Text
Posted on: July 23rd, 2008
Sections → ArtsWhat 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
Posted on: July 16th, 2008
Sections → ArtsUpon walking into the synagogue at Hadassah Hospital, one is forced to look up.
A Microcosm of the Afterlife: The Catskills’ Four Seasons Lodge
Posted on: July 9th, 2008
Sections → ArtsWhen Andrew Jacobs heard about a bungalow colony of Holocaust survivors on Geiger Road in the Catskills, his mind unleashed a series of pardonable stereotypes.
Posted on: July 2nd, 2008
Sections → ArtsAs 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?
Posted on: June 25th, 2008
Sections → ArtsSome 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
Posted on: June 18th, 2008
Sections → ArtsWe 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
Posted on: June 12th, 2008
Sections → ArtsItalo 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
Posted on: June 4th, 2008
Sections → ArtsLight 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
Posted on: May 28th, 2008
Sections → ArtsThe road one chooses in Art, much like life, does not necessarily determine the final destination.
Is It Creepy To Remember Someone Else’s Tragedy?
Posted on: May 21st, 2008
Sections → ArtsThere is perhaps a paradox afoot in conventional American Jewish views on Holocaust memory.
Rembrandt’s Abraham: Etchings At Swann Galleries
Posted on: May 14th, 2008
Sections → Arts"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
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
Sections → ArtsWhen 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.
Posted on: April 30th, 2008
Sections → ArtsNear 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".
Posted on: April 23rd, 2008
Sections → ArtsHoward 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.
Posted on: April 16th, 2008
Sections → ArtsFirst 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?
Posted on: April 9th, 2008
Sections → ArtsSwastikas have been popping up lately in the most unusual places.
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A Government Update With Jeremy Man Saltan