Karen Lehrman Bloch is a cultural critic; author of The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World (Doubleday) and The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty (Harper Design); Editor of International Political Affairs at The Weekly Blitz; and curator of the book and exhibition Passage to Israel (Skyhorse).
In a recent Gallup poll, 49% of Democrats now say they sympathize more with the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria, compared with just 38% who side with Israelis — an 11-point drop since just last year.
“The Sassoons,” on view through August 13, tells the tale of the four-generation Sassoon dynasty through the magnificent art and Judaica they collected after being expelled from Iraq for the sin of being Jewish.
For anyone worried that women are being reobjectified through social media, “Passed You on Pico” offers up a feminist alternative: a pin-up calendar of (fully dressed) men called Hasidic Hotties.
Good Germans, of course, is the ironic term given to German citizens who claimed after World War II not to support the Nazi regime but remained silent and made no attempts to show their lack of obedience.
At the historic Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem, the Omni-American Future Project aimed to restrengthen the bonds between the Black and Jewish communities.
“Confronting Hate 1937-1952” examines how a groundbreaking media campaign launched by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) to combat rising antisemitism in the United States actually worked.
For over 83 years, AICF has supported more than 18,000 Israeli artists and institutions including Itzhak Perlman and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Steinhardt believes there are three elements of Jewish pride: a sense of peoplehood, the spirit of Zionism, and an understanding of Jewish “excellence.”
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