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.
Solomonic Judgment In Arthur Miller’s ‘The Price’
Posted on: March 26th, 2008
Sections → ArtsPegging Arthur Miller a Jewish playwright is a dangerous enterprise.
A Very Modern Megillah – Megillah Esther by David Wander
Posted on: March 19th, 2008
Sections → ArtsSuch a nice story the Megillah Esther is, don't you think?
Hungry For Literature And For More Heaven
Posted on: March 12th, 2008
Sections → ArtsThe 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
Posted on: February 27th, 2008
Sections → ArtsSome artists' iconoclastic, bohemian behavior gets them into trouble.
Megillat Esther: The Graphic Novel By JT Waldman
Posted on: February 20th, 2008
Sections → ArtsJT Waldman's Megillat Esther is brash, loud and groundbreaking.
Voluntary And Compulsory Martyrdom: Spinoza And M. Rabinowitz
Posted on: February 13th, 2008
Sections → ArtsAt first glance, Moritz Rabinowitz and Baruch Spinoza have very little in common.
One Family – Photographs Of Vardi Kahana
Posted on: February 6th, 2008
Sections → ArtsThe Holocaust was "Ground Zero of the Greenwald-Kahana family."
A Jewish Artist, Whether You Like It or Not
Posted on: January 30th, 2008
Sections → ArtsMiriam 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
Posted on: January 23rd, 2008
Sections → ArtsLudwig 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.
Posted on: January 9th, 2008
Sections → ArtsLynn Russell's current exhibition at the Chassidic Art Institute challenges us with a piety that resists all easy answers.
Posted on: January 3rd, 2008
Sections → ArtsArt criticism is often a messy business that has a lot to do with passing judgment.
Athens To Jerusalem: Ghiberti’s Masterpiece
Posted on: December 27th, 2007
Sections → ArtsThe 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.
The Puppet Master Who Denied That The Holocaust (Had Ended)
Posted on: December 19th, 2007
Sections → ArtsPuppeteers are supposed to be jolly sorts, who associate with Sesame Street, the Muppets and Mister Rogers's Neighborhood.
Posted on: December 12th, 2007
Sections → ArtsThe varieties of Jewish art are always a delight to explore, but occasionally an exhibition comes along that provides surprises and insights that trouble even the most assured of viewers.
Is Abstracting The Holocaust The Same as Denying It?
Posted on: December 5th, 2007
Sections → ArtsWhen Mark Godfrey first stumbled across Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered European Jews in Berlin, he did not recognize it.
Gilded Lions And Jeweled Horses: Woodcarving From The Synagogue To The Carousel
Posted on: November 28th, 2007
Sections → ArtsMuch like the Jewish people themselves, the legacy of Jewish Art has miraculously survived seemingly endless assaults over the past two centuries.
World War II Art And Propaganda
Posted on: November 21st, 2007
Sections → ArtsOne of the greatest insights Jacques Derrida laid out in his conceptualization of Deconstruction was that a thing can coexist with its opposite, and in fact, neither can be properly understood without the other.
Posted on: November 14th, 2007
Sections → ArtsThe L.A Story, a selection of works from 10 contemporary Los Angeles Jewish artists currently at the Hebrew Union College - Institute of Religion Museum, poses the question of what exactly constitutes Jewish Art and what is its condition today on the West Coast.
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A Government Update With Jeremy Man Saltan