A showcase of rabbinic achievement, featuring 24 women who redefined Jewish leadership.
- ArtsHoly Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate
A showcase of rabbinic achievement, featuring 24 women who redefined Jewish leadership.
ArtsAnti-Jewish Bias Is Spreading in Arts and CultureIt may be more subtle than a scrawled swastika or a torched synagogue, but anti-Jewish bias in that realm is nonetheless a growing phenomenon.
It may be more subtle than a scrawled swastika or a torched synagogue, but anti-Jewish bias in that realm is nonetheless a growing phenomenon.
ArtsBlack and Jewish Identities Converge in ArtA generation of Black Jewish women are using art—paintings, drawings, multimedia works and film—to share and explore their multiethnic perspectives.
A generation of Black Jewish women are using art—paintings, drawings, multimedia works and film—to share and explore their multiethnic perspectives.
Live Opera at the Dead SeaIt was a summer evening at the Dead Sea. The wind breathed fire, but with every passing hour the air grew calmer and the temperatureProfile: Charles Foxby Joan TapperIn our pop culture world, we recognize the actor before we remember the playwright, the dancer before the choreographer and the singer before the songwriter.Guide to the ArtsExhibits/ Music Festivals/ Film Festivals/Theater EXHIBITS United States ARIZONA The Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix (480-951-0323; www.spjm.org) Features a composite synagogue sanctuary from Djerba, Tunisia, with ornate floral-motif tiles andBrief Reviews: Images That Keep the Past AliveExhibits Last Folio: A Photographic Journey With Yuri Dojc From Bardejov to Kosice, Lucenec to Michalovce, Slovakian-born photographer Yuri Dojc searched for his family’s past;The Arts: A Modern Remembranceby Joan TapperSitting quietly in its corner of a Los Angeles park, the new home of the Museum of the Holocaust is almost invisible from the street.Guide to the ArtsUnited States ARIZONA The Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix (480-951-0323; www.spjm.org) Features a composite synagogue sanctuary from Djerba, Tunisia, with ornate floral-motif tiles and wooden Torah casings, andFilm Roundup: From the 2011 New York Jewish Film FestivalMiss You /Te Extraño Movies about the 30,000 men and women who were “disappeared” in the 1970s during Argentina’s military dictatorship are becoming more nuanced,Brief Review: Mosaics From Israelby Renata PoltMarvelous Menagerie: A Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel Some 1,700 years ago, a wealthy Roman had a floor mosaic installed in his large house inFooter Menu Column 2
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