A qualified improvement.
Dec 23 25December 23, 2025
Article at ideas.tikvah.org
Being an activist has become the artist’s and intellectual’s self-celebratory vocation.
Jul 17 25July 17, 2025
Anti-American epic.
May 01 25May 01, 2025
The Brutalist's foundation as a film is fundamentally shaky.
Apr 07 25April 07, 2025
Article at jewishreviewofbooks.com
And how Jews used art to send messages about themselves.
Aug 28 24August 28, 2024
Anything done to the Jews in Israel will be justified.
Nov 13 23November 13, 2023
Many recent Hollywood movies seem to exhibit a fear of showing too much Jewish particularism. Why?
Jan 30 23January 30, 2023
The Jewish story of redemption doesn’t just involve enduring suffering, but actually imposes obligations.
Oct 28 22October 28, 2022
Assuming no education, offering little knowledge, and affecting not to care about either, New York's Jewish Museum promises to inspire new forms of an “ever-changing” Jewish identity.
May 20 19May 20, 2019
The Bible molded modern English and shaped American society and culture. Now, as attacks on the Museum of the Bible suggest, it has been cripplingly tossed aside.
Jan 08 18January 08, 2018
Misreading God of Vengeance.
Apr 28 17April 28, 2017
Explore how the Met's Jerusalem exhibit distorts history, downplays Jewish ties, and reflects troubling trends in Western museums.
Mar 09 17March 09, 2017
Podcast at ideas.tikvah.org
How the Met, in its exhibition Jerusalem 1000-1400 and in its defense against critics of that exhibition, exploits the vocabulary of openness.
Mar 01 17March 01, 2017
An exhibition on the diverse multiculturalism of medieval Jerusalem has been ecstatically received. There's just one problem: the vision of history it promotes is a myth.
Feb 06 17February 06, 2017
They are still invoking dated forms of self-abnegation, or engaging in more or less ignorant forms of advocacy, or yearning for a vague universalism.
Feb 22 16February 22, 2016
Ours is an era of museums celebrating the identity of nearly every group and ethnicity. But something else takes place when the identity in question is Jewish.
Feb 01 16February 01, 2016
A remarkable concert reintroduces three Jewish composers who fled fascist Europe to America, where two of them pioneered a new art form—the symphonic film score.
May 21 15May 21, 2015
As a powerful new exhibit shows, the 16th president felt a close connection to the Jewish people. Why?
Apr 01 15April 01, 2015
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