Arts & Culture

For decades, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, esteemed principal of Rambam Mesivta High School in Long Island, has accumulated his teachings, writings, and those of many other scholars and rabbinical authorities, tracking the history of Israel. His mission was not just to…

Purim, not Chanukah, a friend pointed out, has become the real Jewish Christmas. There’s a whole bunch of days playing up to that one special day, then a whole bunch of days playing off it after the one special day…

“Netta, you brought a lot of honor to the State of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Facebook. “Next year in Jerusalem!” Israel won the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon early Sunday after singer Netta Barzilai beat 25 other…

Italian-Jewish  artist Amedeo Modigliani’s 1917 painting “Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)” is set to be auctioned at Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on May 14 with an pre-sale estimate in excess of $150 million  one of the the highest estimates…

In his new book, Deir Yassin: The End of the Myth, Prof. Eliezer Tauber, head of the Institute for the Study of Underground Movements at Bar-Ilan University and former Dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies at the University, examines the…

Beirut, the new Hollywood production by director Brad Anderson and Bourne trilogy screenwriter Tony Gilroy, is getting mostly good reviews, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 78 percent. It’s safe to say that the vast majority of the reviewers aren’t…

Luxury fashion brand Gucci opened its new 10,700 square foot store on 63 Wooster Street on Saturday May 5, 2018 with the festivities beginning at 9 PM.  The store is an ode to the luxury culture of Gucci and designed to connect the consumers…

The invitation read: “Un Ballo in Maschera 2018: Splendori dell’Oriente”-having no clue what that meant I did know I was in for a spectacular evening as guests were exhorted to wear opulent black tie and masks.  The “Save Venice Ball”…

Sitting through masterpiece “Schindler’s List” 25 years later was just as painful.  The Tribeca Film Festival screened the 3 hour 15 minute movie at The Beacon Theatre to a sold-out crowd of 2,900 on Thursday April 26th.  The travesty of…

I co-pioneered the study of violence against women in the late 1960s. I focused on women living in North America and Europe who had been psychiatrically diagnosed and hospitalized; were the victims of rape, sexual harassment, incest, intimate partner battering,…

Family intrigue, ghosts safely tucked away in the proverbial closet, and palpable angst over interpretations of the truth are the leading themes in the new musical “Goldstein” currently playing at the Actors Temple Theater on West 47th Street. The audience…

Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters is universally recognized as the de facto leader of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, a political group with questionable tactics used to demonize, delegitimize and isolate the State of Israel economically, culturally, and…

David Horowitz’s “Black Book of the American Left” reaches its triumphant culmination The last five years have seen the publication of a landmark shelf of books – namely, the collected conservative writings of David Horowitz under the title The Black…

One of the most famous Yiddish plays of all time in the premier production of Ruth Gay’s 2007 translation The Obie award-winning Metropolitan Playhouse (220 E. 4th Street) presents Jacob Gordin’s The Jewish King Lear, hailed as one of the…

Will Take Office as Museum’s Tenth Director in Summer 2018 The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced that Max Hollein has been elected its next Director. Mr. Hollein currently leads the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. After beginning his…