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.
Posted on: September 11th, 2007
Sections → ArtsWhat role can a documentary film assume when facts cannot be agreed upon and truth is spelled with a lower case "t"?
Posted on: September 5th, 2007
Sections → ArtsRembrandt's etching, Abraham Entertaining the Angels, is a pristine jewel of Biblical narrative.
The Insecure Prophet: Walking A Mile In Nathan’s Shoes
Posted on: August 29th, 2007
Sections → ArtsWhen the prophet Nathan woke up in the morning and saw his to-do list for the day - rebuke the king of Israel for his sin with Bathsheba - did he hit his snooze alarm and try, like the prophet Jonah, to shirk his duty?
Posted on: August 22nd, 2007
Sections → ArtsWhat is Frydlender up to? Barry Frydlender, the prominent Israeli photographer, is currently privileged with simultaneous exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Posted on: August 15th, 2007
Sections → ArtsIf an Israeli settler and a Palestinian shopkeeper sat through Israeli playwright Ilan Hatsor's Masked, both might feel betrayed and misrepresented.
Posted on: August 8th, 2007
Sections → ArtsMichelangelo Merisi Caravaggio (1571-1610) was well acquainted with evil. His short violent life careened wildly between prestigious painting commissions from the most powerful men in Rome and drunken street brawls with the lowest of the low. Such behavior led to frequent encounters with the police, lawsuits, duels and finally murder. Exposed early in life to [...]
Fighting Anti-Semitism In Life And Death: Two New Films On Daniel Pearl And Simon Wiesenthal
Posted on: August 1st, 2007
Sections → Arts"Your powers are weak, old man," Darth Vader tells Obi-Wan Kenobi as the young Luke anxiously watches the ensuing battle from a distance.
The Arch of Titus: Am Yisroel Chai
Posted on: July 25th, 2007
Sections → ArtsI walked slowly away from the Coliseum in Rome. Completed in 80 C.E. by the Emperor Titus it was used for almost 500 years for countless gladiatorial games and bloody spectacles.
Forcing The Messiah Any Day That He Might Come
Posted on: July 18th, 2007
Sections → Arts"I believe with complete faith in the coming of the Messiah," declares Maimonides in his Thirteen Principles of Faith, "and even if he tarries, nevertheless I shall await him any day that he might come."
Women’s Work, Women’s Art: Ita Aber At Yeshiva University Museum
Posted on: July 11th, 2007
Sections → ArtsCould there be such a thing as Women's Art? From my liberal modernist perspective such a notion is foreign, threatening and, indeed, heretical.
Posted on: July 4th, 2007
Sections → ArtsWhen Mark Podwal showed the galleys for his book "Doctored Drawings" to a former culture editor at The New York Times (he has drawn for the op-ed page for 35 years), he suggested Podwal remove eight drawings with Jewish symbolism.
Illustrating The Postmodernist’s Bible: Nature in John Bradford’s Art
Posted on: June 20th, 2007
Sections → ArtsSome painters enslave themselves to detailed landscapes, patiently tracking every tree branch and grass blade in an effort to transcribe and document everything.
Posted on: June 13th, 2007
Sections → ArtsSomething is blooming in Brooklyn that promises a dramatic revitalization of Jewish visual culture.
Poetic Art And Biblical Illustration: A Study In Contrasts
Posted on: May 30th, 2007
Sections → ArtsOne of the advantages museums hold over galleries is that their exhibits need not focus on one theme.
The New Arthur Szyk: Fad Or Revival?
Posted on: May 22nd, 2007
Sections → ArtsCartoonists often draw the short straws at posh cocktail parties.
A Middle Eastern Scavenger Hunt: Can Shaymos be Art?
Posted on: May 9th, 2007
Sections → ArtsOftentimes, the art world functions like an ecosystem, whereby certain artist-producers generate innovative, new content, and artist-consumers readily borrow from those raw materials and shape them into new products.
Posted on: May 2nd, 2007
Sections → ArtsAlthough Passover is no longer around the corner (11 months and counting until next year's cleaning craze), Had Gadya remains a timeless song of Jewish persecution and triumph over generation after generation of anti-Semitism.
The Artistic Side Of Holocaust Art
Posted on: April 25th, 2007
Sections → ArtsHolocaust art has dominated the news lately for all the wrong reasons.
Jewish Women Artists Talk About Their Work (Part Five)
Posted on: April 18th, 2007
Sections → ArtsPermission to Use Hebrew Letters, Healing the World, and the Pull of Judaism
Jewish Women Artists Talk About Their Work (Part Four)
Posted on: April 12th, 2007
Sections → Arts"Am I a Jewish artist? A woman artist? A Jewish woman artist? Of course!
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