Local Wine, T-Bone Steak, and the Pioneer Spirit, in the Shadow of Hizballah
A visit to the Golan.
April 20, 2023
Two Great Spanish Artists, Living under Suspicion of Jewish and Muslim Ancestry
Juan de Pareja and Diego Velázquez
The name of the 17th-century Spanish artist Juan de Pareja is forever associated with that of another great Spanish painter of the same period, Diego Velázquez, who painted a celebrated portrait of Pareja and also seems to have provided him with artistic training. But the connection between the two is more complicated than that: Pareja was born a slave, was purchased by Velázquez as a young man, and set free by Velázquez about twenty years later. A new exhibit about Pareja at the Metropolitan Museum reveals something else about the two, as Diane Cole writes:
April 20, 2023
How Radical Islam Drives Anti-Semitism in the U.S.
Aided by the red-green alliance.
The Iron Dome Isn’t Enough to Keep Israel Safe
Any defensive system, no matter how ingenious, has its limits.
A Poet’s Recollections of How Jews Hid from the Nazis
Malines.
Two Great Spanish Artists, Living under Suspicion of Jewish and Muslim Ancestry
Juan de Pareja and Diego Velázquez