The Synagogue Is Dead; Long Live The Synagogue!:The Eldridge Project At Christie’s

Modernity has created a culture of dispensability. Everything comes in a convenient size and a disposable plastic bottle.

Rosenstrasse: A Film by Margarethe von Trotta

The best movies, as all good works of art, pepper us with insistent questions.

Amnesia In Color And Line: Inez Storer’s Identity Paintings

Amid the rising action in Disney's "The Lion King," Simba - already a dashing mature lion - follows the monkey, Rafiki, through marshland, until arriving at a loch.

How to Paint Jewish Culture In Five Easy Steps: The New Jersey Transcultural Initiative...

Pinpointing modern art's origin yields a confusing situation; leading art history books claim many "fathers" of Modern Art: Gauguin, van Gogh, Whistler's "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" and sometimes Monet's "Impression: Sunrise."

Emmanuil And Janet Snitkovsky – Paintings

Two highly successful artists, the husband and wife team of Emmanuil and Janet Snitkovsky, are currently exhibiting a selection of eight large Judaic paintings at the Chassidic Art Institute in Crown Heights.

The Stanton Street Shul and the Art of David Friedman

Artists have a way of calling attention to the things we really need to see.

Sing Unto Him A Song: Blue Fringe And Soulfarm

There is Hassidic story about a young boy who attended Yom Kippur services at his local synagogue, and yet could not participate in the High Holiday service because he was illiterate.

Longing For The Sacred: Lost Synagogues Of The Shoah Stained Glass Models By Felix...

The sacred is that which is removed, eternal and ultimately untouchable, something we must always have in our lives and yet can never possess.

The Stanton Street Shul And The Art Of David Friedman

Artists have a way of calling attention to the things we really need to see. Their sensitivity and funny way of thinking shake us up, and demand that we take notice.

The Last Jew: A Tragedy By David Pinski

One hundred years after David Pinski's (1872-1959) "Di Familye Tzvi" was written, the scathing examination of the Jewish world that the play depicts is neither dated nor out of touch with contemporary Jewish life.

‘Nossig’s Antics’ – A New Play By Lazarre Seymour Simckes

"Are you Alfred Nossig?" the waiter asked the middle-aged man at the table.

My America – The Long Road

The Jewish Museum has a story to tell in "My America: Art From The Jewish Museum Collection, 1900-1955."

A Bitter View – Auschwitz: A Graphic Novel by Pascal Croci

Pascal Croci's graphic novel, Auschwitz, begins with a question to a witness from Auschwitz-Birkenau, "How long have you been keeping all this to yourself?"

Had Gadya: Harbinger Of The Future

Had Gadya, the playful, threatening and ultimately reassuring song that ends many Seder evenings among Ashkenazi Jews, has a long history in the Haggada.

Foundations Of Jewish Life: An Auction At Kestenbaum

The foundations of a Jewish life may be discerned in three outstanding works of Jewish art that I had the pleasure to preview for the Kestenbaum auction scheduled for March 30, 2004.

You Can’t Go Home: Digital Art By Shulamit Tibor

We all attempt to reap sustenance from the past. Our collective heritage acts as a foundation of cultural values necessary for us to build into the future.

Sotheby’s Judaica

Jewish Art has always been burdened by Jewish history.

Eliezer Reiner – The Mitzvah Of Memory

Remember. The commandment to remember reverberates throughout the Torah, starting with the Exodus from Egypt, continuing to Receiving the Torah and finally climaxing in the weekly remembrance of the Sabbath itself. Embedded in the six remembrances is the commandment to, "remember what Amalek did to you on the way" (Devarim 25:17).

The Narrative Of Authority Paintings By John Bradford

Authority, as the Gemara in Sanhedrin says, makes the world go round.

Gleizer’s Paintings: From The Heart Of The Beast

Mikhail Gleizer was born at the end of the Second World War in the Soviet Ukraine under the reign of the dictator Joseph Stalin.

It’s a Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s… Super Mensch!

Brilliant flags cascade atop two majestic mountains, sullied by throngs of horses and soldiers' shining steel armor reflecting the blinding sunlight.

Hiding And Seeking: Faith And Tolerance After The Holocaust

Poised between imminent moral danger and the irrepressible drive to do the right thing, director Menachem Daum and cinematographer Oren Rudavsky have seared together a complex portrait of an Orthodox family who confront their painful past in the new documentary, Hiding and Seeking.

The Art Of Exile: Paintings By Shoshannah Brombacher

Exile is punishment; exile is a constant reminder of our fallen status; exile fills us with longings for a permanent home we cannot possess.

Return To Sinai: Moses Und Aron By Arnold Schoenberg

I was transfixed the first time I saw Moses und Aron, the 1933 opera by Arnold Schoenberg.

Akeydes Yitskhok – Goldfaden’s Masterpiece Revived

It could have been a travesty. Indeed, think of a musical of Akeydes Yitskhok, frivolous singing and play-acting the most awesome and sacred drama in the Torah!

Kneidlach And Machine Guns

The wide variety of bric-a-brac that fills a soldier's pockets, backpack and other gear becomes the medium of exploration in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," his examination of Vietnam era soldiers.

Maus: Flash Back To The Present – Survivor Memory Into Holocaust Art, Part I

Elie Wiesel encapsulates the problem of Holocaust art by insisting that, "Auschwitz defies imagination and perception; it submits only to memory. It can be communicated by testimony, not fiction."

Desecration Or Sanctification: La Juive, The Opera By Jacques Fromental Halevy

The curtain rises to reveal a towering wall of translucent glass behind which the chorus sings 'Te deum laudamus, You are G-d, we praise You,' to the provocative chords of the church organ.

One Artist, Many Visions: Leonard Kogan At The Chassidic Art Institute

Transmission is everything. The life's blood of a people is dependent upon many kinds of transmission; oral, scribal, Talmudic and anecdotal.

Different Modernist Trajectories: Schoenberg, Kandinsky, And The Blue Rider At The Jewish Museum

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) were two of the most important modernist artists in the early twentieth century.

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