Claudia Moscovici
31.08.2020
The Classic Style of Patrick Demarchelier
Leonardo Da Vinci is quoted as saying that “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” I think that this true statement definitely applies to the photography of Patrick Demarchelier. [...]
24.08.2020
Rodin’s muses: Marie-Rose Beuret and Camille Claudel
It would not be an exaggeration to state that Rodin’s artistic career was shaped by women. They were his source of inspiration, his assistants, his models, his sexual and romantic partners, his [...]
17.08.2020
Fighting for women’s (and human) rights: Brenda Feigen’s „Not one of the boys”
If young women today harbor any doubts about whether or not the feminist movements in the sixties, seventies and eighties were necessary, I would urge them to read Brenda Feigen’s autobiography, [...]
10.08.2020
Governor please open movie theaters (with the mask mandate and social distancing)
Like many other people, I really miss the social experience of going to the movie theater with family and friends. Watching movies at home is not the same experience. There’s something to be said [...]
03.08.2020
Young Zionists Unite: Bryan Leib’s new pro-Israel “Tribe”, HaShevet
The Jews, though perhaps a “tribe” (HaShevet), have always had significant internal differences. A people found in practically every nation around the world, the ethnic, racial, social, religious [...]
27.07.2020
Anti-Semitism in contemporary Hungary
Anti-Semitism has a long history in Hungary, nearly as long as the history of the Jews living in the country. In fact, Hitler was not the first to prescribe armband to mark, isolate and shame the [...]
20.07.2020
The changing art of portraiture
E.H. Gombrich declared in his monumental history of art, The Story of Art, that “There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists”(15). By this he meant that art has no timeless [...]
13.07.2020
From the Beaux-Arts tradition to the innovation of Art Forum
Frédéric Jousset has spanned the gamut in the arts in the course of his career. Raised in an artistic family—his mother, Marie-Laure Jousset was the Chief Curator at Beaubourg and his father, [...]
06.07.2020
The Jewish National Fund: Growing Zionism
The Holocaust underscored for the Jewish people the necessity—and, many would argue, the historic right—of having their own nation. Deprived of full citizenship rights in many European countries [...]
29.06.2020
An homage to friendship among women and to writing
It is unspeakably sad to lose one’s best friends. Even more so, perhaps, when the bonds of friendship are interwoven with professional mentorship and mutual support, a deep emotional [...]
