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Romania’s secret police trailed a Jewish photographer. Decades later, their files have become a film.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (929+ words) (JTA) " BERLIN "He had wild hair and wore jeans. He was American " and Jewish. He had a camera. That was enough to trigger surveillance by the notorious secret police of communist Romania, the Securitate. "Plan contraplan/Shot Reverse Shot," which…...
In the work of 21 artists, 49 different ways to be Jewish
3+ week, 2+ day ago (809+ words) From left: Ben-Zion's "Moses Looking Down to the Promised Land' and Adam Muszka's "Sabbath Meal.' Both are on display at the Derfner Judaica Museum's "Envisioning the Sacred' exhibit. Courtesy of Derfner Judaica Museum + Art CDerfner Judaica Museum + Art Collection. Gift…...
How a deeply religious Christian artist captured the spirit of the Jewish holy land
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (712+ words) Mar Saba," by David Roberts. Courtesy of Jim Sable I did a doubletake " I" knew that place; it was Mar Saba, an ancient monastery in the middle of nowhere. Then, he did something truly extraordinary, especially for someone living in…...
Rembrandt has been hailed for his love of the Jewish people — was it all a myth?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (579+ words) By Noah Hirsch-Rechter February 19, 2026 In a preface to the 1932 Hebrew edition of the painter Leonid Pasternak's study of Rembrandt, Russian-Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik observed that although the Dutch artist was not Jewish, we "must consider him as "a Jew…...
This Israeli photographer's work is all about 'subverting masculinity"
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (1059+ words) By Stav Ziv September 20, 2025 "That was the seed," he told me over Zoom from his new home in New Jersey, where he recently moved with his husband. "Especially in a place like the military, where masculinity is such a huge…...
Celia Dropkin's "Desires" portrays the intimate life of a married couple
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In 1960's New York, the past was a foreign country — they sure did things differently there
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (1017+ words) Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde'Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop By J. Hoberman Verso Books, 464 pages, $35 J. Hoberman is one of our best and most prescient cultural critics and after a dozen or so books, his latest, Everything Is Now:…...
Exhibit in Hungary displays remnants of 18th century wooden synagogue
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (178+ words) Tidbits is a bi-weekly feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don't know a word, just click on it and the translation appears. You'll also…...