The Process Begun at Oslo Was Never about Peace, Only about Israeli Concessions
A view from inside the U.S. government.
September 14, 2018
Marc Chagall in Vitebsk
How the artist was influenced by his hometown.
Since Yehudah Pen established an art school there in 1897, the Russian (now Belarusian) city of Vitebsk was a center of Jewish art; its most famous native son was Marc Chagall, who studied at Pen’s academy along with the great Soviet Jewish artist El Lissitzky. Chagall left his hometown first for St. Petersburg and then for France in 1897, but returned home in 1914 and, from 1918 to 1922, served as “plenipotentiary for the affairs of art in the province of Vitebsk,” running an art academy that attracted some of Russia’s most important painters. Frances Brent, reviewing an exhibit that was first at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and is now at the Jewish Museum in New York, describes Chagall’s time in the city and its influence on his work:
September 14, 2018
The Department of Education Gets Anti-Semitism Right, While Its Critics Get It Wrong
Kenneth Marcus and campus anti-Zionism.
Seventeen Years after Its Attack on the World Trade Center, Al-Qaeda Is Still Very Much Alive
It’s even expanded its reach.
Why the Museum of the Bible Angered So Many Academics
Losing public authority over Scripture.
Marc Chagall in Vitebsk
How the artist was influenced by his hometown.