Though ambitious and engaging, the New York institution’s reorganized collections galleries struggle to offer a coherent vision of Jewish history and identity.

Being an activist has become the artist’s and intellectual’s self-celebratory vocation.

While protests at university campuses since October 7, 2023, have earned appropriate notoriety for their violence, tactics, and support for...

Anti-American epic.

The Brutalist's foundation as a film is fundamentally shaky.

The Yiddish Book Center’s permanent exhibition offers much to kvell about, including a wide-ranging collection of volumes and tributes to Yiddish theater, music and history.

And how Jews used art to send messages about themselves.

Their narratives have long been built around the stories of survivors. But with that generation dying off they need new ways to keep their testimony vital.

Anything done to the Jews in Israel will be justified.

A wide-ranging show at the New-York Historical Society explores the ways different faiths and communities both shaped and were shaped by the nation’s westward expansion.

No matter how many innocents are murdered, Western intellectuals will never stop making excuses for terrorists

A show at the Yeshiva University Museum in New York focuses on the 12th-century physician, jurist, philosopher, rabbi and teacher and his reach from his own times to today.

Many recent Hollywood movies seem to exhibit a fear of showing too much Jewish particularism. Why?

In the great Gothic creations in and around the City of Light, the glory is in the details.

The Jewish story of redemption doesn’t just involve enduring suffering, but actually imposes obligations.

In our era of cancellations and topplings, censorious declarations and virtue signaling, recantations and exorcisms, it’s almost possible...

A show at the Getty reveals how Christian pictorialism was used to co-opt Jewish texts.

An exhibition about art plundered by the Nazis avoids context and narrative.

The complete recordings—all 775 hours—of the historic Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders has been released online.

Dora Kallmus, better known as Madame d’Ora, was a talented portraitist who found theatrical spectacle in many of her subjects