The Seeing Eye

For centuries, visual artists, nearly all Christian, turned to the Hebrew Bible for inspiration even more often than the New Testament. What did they find there, and did they treat it well?

From its priceless collection of artworks, a foremost cultural institution has harvested mainly inferior examples for display, while submerging Jewish identity in a sea of “universal values.”

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.

If Judaism’s idea of art is one that can truly represent our frail, fallible humanity, then Rembrandt, who captured faces "without any attempt to beautify them," is the artist for Jews.

Why, in all of Jewish art, is there no image depicting the moment of Moses’ death?