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  • A Showcase of Female Illustrated Post-WWII Books and Diaries
    Arts
    A Showcase of Female Illustrated Post-WWII Books and Diaries
    A Showcase of Female Illustrated Post-WWII Books and Diaries

    An upcoming Hadassah-Brandeis Institute exhibit presents haunting Holocaust drawings, handmade albums and pictorial diaries from ten Jewish survivors.

    An upcoming Hadassah-Brandeis Institute exhibit presents haunting Holocaust drawings, handmade albums and pictorial diaries from ten Jewish survivors.

  • The Jewish Women Who Pioneered Photography as Art
    The Jewish Women Who Pioneered Photography as Art
    The Jewish Women Who Pioneered Photography as Art

    A new Tel Aviv exhibit presents works from 20 trailblazing female photographers from the early 20th century alongside those of 20 artists active today.

    A new Tel Aviv exhibit presents works from 20 trailblazing female photographers from the early 20th century alongside those of 20 artists active today.

  • Painful and Piercing Public Art as Therapy
    Arts
    Painful and Piercing Public Art as Therapy
    Painful and Piercing Public Art as Therapy

    ‘The hunger to create and share these works of art is a testament to the widespread trauma that grips Israeli society,’ writes Leora Eren Frucht.

    ‘The hunger to create and share these works of art is a testament to the widespread trauma that grips Israeli society,’ writes Leora Eren Frucht.

  • The Women Fueling the Rise of #JewishTikTok
    Wider World
    The Women Fueling the Rise of #JewishTikTok
    The Women Fueling the Rise of #JewishTikTok

    From Orthodox lifestyle bloggers and food accounts to comedians and book reviewers, these Jewish content creators have exploded on TikTok.

    From Orthodox lifestyle bloggers and food accounts to comedians and book reviewers, these Jewish content creators have exploded on TikTok.

  • Barbie’s Jewish Mother
    Arts
    Barbie’s Jewish Mother
    Barbie’s Jewish Mother

    Mattel’s iconic doll isn’t affiliated with a specific religion, but her roots trace back to Ruth Handler, a Jewish mom with chutzpah.

    Mattel’s iconic doll isn’t affiliated with a specific religion, but her roots trace back to Ruth Handler, a Jewish mom with chutzpah.

  • Holy Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate
    Arts
    Holy Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate
    Holy Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate

    A showcase of rabbinic achievement, featuring 24 women who redefined Jewish leadership.

    A showcase of rabbinic achievement, featuring 24 women who redefined Jewish leadership.

  • Anti-Jewish Bias Is Spreading in Arts and Culture
    Arts
    Anti-Jewish Bias Is Spreading in Arts and Culture
    Anti-Jewish Bias Is Spreading in Arts and Culture

    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.

    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.

  • Black and Jewish Identities Converge in Art
    Arts
    Black and Jewish Identities Converge in Art
    Black and Jewish Identities Converge in Art

    A 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.

Arts
The Arts: For the Ages-and Aged
by Rachel Schwartzberg
A nursing home is not the most obvious place to house a new, contemporary Jewish museum, but that is one of a number of surprises
Arts
Brief Reviews: How Jews See Themselves—and How Others See Them:
by Judith Gelman Myers
Two Israeli documentaries about anti-Semitism are hitting film festivals and theaters throughout the world. Yoav Shamir’s Defamation pokes fun at Jewish paranoia, questioning the very existence of
Arts
Palestinians, Tunisians and Druze Onscreen
FILMS For My Father aka Weekend in Tel Aviv A young West Bank Palestinian infiltrates Tel Aviv with orders to blow himself up in the
Arts
The Arts : The Rabbi Beneath the Clay
by Dinah A. Spritzer
The Golem legend began in Prague, and an exhibit at the Czech Republic’s premier cultural venue explores the man credited with creating the myth. In
Arts
Gertrude Berg, First Lady of Entertainment
FILMS Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Whether or not you remember Molly Goldberg, the character so warmly and slyly played by Gertrude Berg on her radio and
Arts
Profile: Art Spiegelman
by Stewart Kampel
Talk balloons and cartoon panels become adult, intelligent and graphically creative means of expression in the imagination of one of comics’ leading lights. Among serious
Arts
The Arts : Treasures from the Jewish Attic
Keep track of those old photos, Manischewitz matza tins and sisterhood cookbooks. They may have a place in a museum, as part of the growing
Arts
Brief Reviews: Irena, Righteous Gentile, and a New-Old Tevye
EXHIBITSTraces of Sepharad More than 40 black-and-white etchings by self-taught Sefardic artist Marc Shanker compress pithy, humorous and thought-provoking Ladino proverbs into simple visual images.

 

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