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There Will Be Blood: Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum

“His paintings reflect the route from Louvre to butcher shop to studio, a private map of an emigre who belonged to no national movement and who created his own style.”

Dan Grossman May 29, 2018

Shehecheyanu at the Old Dolphinarium

New poetry from Julia Knobloch.

Julia Knobloch May 29, 2018

Keep Looking Until You Find It

A surprising encounter with the Book of Ruth at a participatory art ritual in New York.

Maia Ipp May 24, 2018

Roth Versus The Rabbis

“It was presumptuous of you, Rabbi Rackman, to speak of yourself to me as ‘a leader of his people.’ You are not my leader and I can only thank God for it.”

Josh Lambert May 23, 2018

Indonesia’s Unmourned Communists

A new work addresses the long-neglected mass politicide of communists in Indonesia.

Mitchell Abidor May 23, 2018

Our Hilarious Overlords

What’s so funny about backstabbing, brutality and mass murder? Quite a lot.

Logan Bayroff May 23, 2018

Hitchhikers

An excerpt from the novel SADNESS IS A WHITE BIRD by Moriel Rothman-Zecher.

Moriel Rothman-Zecher May 22, 2018

Intersectionality Is Not a Reason for Jews to Leave Our Movements

The issue with intersectional discourse for many Jews, especially those with economic and skin color privilege, is that it requires us to take a tough look at how some Jews at home and abroad have become oppressors, or enablers of oppression.

Sarah M. Seltzer May 22, 2018