Jewish museums
Louise Bourgeois, artist without context.
In the Diaspora itself, you can visit a Jewish museum and forget that Judaism is a religion.
Balancing the universal and the particular.
The Jews of Ferrara.
Ilan Ramon and the book of Enoch.
Its director resigns after it engages in pro-BDS lobbying.
No, the Holocaust didn’t happen because of a lack of love.
Assuming no education, offering little knowledge, and affecting not to care about either, New York’s Jewish Museum promises to inspire new forms of an “ever-changing” Jewish identity.
Oddly discomfited by the Jewish center of the story it tells, and overly content with contemporary platitudes.
The Met’s Jerusalem 1000-1400 is just one example of the way Jewish history, Jewish ideas, and Jewish art are trimmed to the purposes of contemporary taste and opinion.
The 500th anniversary of the first ghetto.
An Orthodox rabbi’s unorthodox museum.
They are still invoking dated forms of self-abnegation, or engaging in more or less ignorant forms of advocacy, or yearning for a vague universalism.
Why are so many Jews convinced that Jewish history, and Jewish pain, exist only to serve the needs of others?