In Boycotting Israel, Professors of Women’s Studies Betray Women in Muslim Lands
Why no boycotts of Islamic State or the Taliban?
December 11, 2015
In a New Exhibit, the Jewish Museum Overlooks the Jewishness of Soviet Photographers
Even as it features their work.
The Jewish Museum in New York City is currently mounting an exhibit entitled The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Films. In her review, Frances Brent notes that the exhibit—although in many ways well executed—does not properly draw attention to the outsized role Jews played in early Soviet photography, or the Jewish identities of most of the artists whose work is on display:
December 11, 2015
The Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement and the Current Violence in Israel
Two decades of incitement.
The Menorah and the True Meaning of Exile and Redemption
What the arch of Titus tells us, and doesn’t tell us, about one of the oldest Jewish symbols.
In a New Exhibit, the Jewish Museum Overlooks the Jewishness of Soviet Photographers
Even as it features their work.
The Evolving Meanings of “Gentile”
From “nation” to “pagan” to “non-Jew.”