The limits of a cross-denominational partnership aimed at helping Jewish educators
| 7:00 AM Jun 4, 2010
Last week, each of the three universities associated with the major American Jewish denominations received an $11 million grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation, a San Francisco-based Jewish philanthropy. The grants to the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College
Does the movement have a future over there?
| 2:06 PM Mar 5, 2010
As Apartheid Week swept campuses across America this past week, a group of 70 Columbia University and Hebrew Union College students gathered Monday night to hear about a different topic: Reform Judaism in Israel. Dr. David Ellenson, HUC President, at an event sponsored by the Columbia Current, predicted that Reform Judaism would be able ...
The recession has hit the rabbinate, too. How are the newly ordained—and laid-off veterans—handling the rabbi glut?
| 7:00 AM Sep 30, 2009
Having joined the ranks of the underemployed this spring, Dalia Samansky, 30, found herself trolling Craigslist for jobs in sales or marketing, maybe private-school teaching. “I got one interview, but most didn’t even respond,” she said. “I just sent lots and lots of resumes.” Samansky was frustrated—after all, she has five years of grad school ...
In his late artworks, Arbit Blatas took on the Holocaust
| 1:01 PM Nov 25, 2008
Arbit Blatas, Babi Yar (detail), 1944
When NBC aired the Holocaust miniseries in April 1978, it was a watershed moment, bringing a subject still largely taboo to the broad public consciousness. But neither this feat, nor a host of accolades, inured the show from charges that it trivialized and sentimentalized the atrocities. It would be difficult ...
Karen Weiser and the poetry of first things
Novelists Gary Shteyngart and Joshua Cohen discuss their dark visions of the future
A new history examines the Jewish role in the musical world of Czarist Russia
What an Egyptian thriller says about the country’s perception of Israel
On the 121st anniversary of his birth, what makes Hitler an Internet phenomenon?
On the eve of the Oscars, an endorsement of ‘The White Ribbon’
David P. Goldman discusses the secrets to Israel's prominence in classical music
A mix of passion and tradition makes Israel a classical-musical superpower
Moishe Oysher, a midcentury cantor and performer, is enjoying an unexpected second act
A TV series on returning POWs has Israel mesmerized and Hollywood interested
Making the web’s greatest Hanukkah film
The Fox cult hit ‘Glee’ is about outcasts and Broadway—so naturally it offers a Jewish storyline
An illustrated remembrance of cartooning legend Harvey Pekar
How the figure of Jesus came to be employed in modern Jewish art
An art historian tackles the thorny matter of Jews and figurative painting
The controversial new Madoff play may be obscene, but that's why it's great
Songs from Tablet Magazine’s ‘Gypsy’-inspired Passover musical
How Russian-Jewish émigrés are changing the face of competitive ballroom dance
