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Rembrandt has been hailed for his love of the Jewish people — was it all a myth?
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (579+ words) By Noah Hirsch-Rechter February 19, 2026 In a preface to the 1932 Hebrew edition of the painter Leonid Pasternak's study of Rembrandt, Russian-Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik observed that although the Dutch artist was not Jewish, we "must consider him as "a Jew…...
Quietly sold by Jewish library, letter by famed 18th-century rabbi surfaces at auction, fetching $400,000
10+ hour, 44+ min ago (732+ words) By Asaf Elia-Shalev February 19, 2026 (JTA) " A decade ago, amid a financial crisis, the Jewish Theological Seminary turned to its assets, selling real estate as well as rare books from its world-renowned library. The book sales were private, and the institution…...
As the last generation of Holocaust survivors die, is AI the future of Holocaust education?
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1067+ words) By Hannah Feuer February 16, 2026 At a Brooklyn synagogue on a recent Monday afternoon, a video of Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski played on a two-foot-tall box. Seated in a leopard-print chair, her hands folded in her lap, Warshawski blinked and nodded…...
Why a forgotten teacher’s grave became a Jewish pilgrimage site
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (368+ words) By Austin Albanese February 15, 2026 Along Britton Road in Rochester, New York, a brick gatehouse sits across from ordinary homes. Beyond it lies Britton Road Cemetery, its grounds divided into family plots and sections claimed over time by Orthodox congregations and…...
The one Jewish value everyone should hold dear in the age of AI
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (206+ words) By Louis Keene February 14, 2026 As friends, relatives and even colleagues dive headlong into our AI future, I've been stuck nervously on the platform's edge. I'm not a skeptic of technology by nature, but by experience. I've watched too many shiny…...
Is there life after Lubavitch?
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (1030+ words) Schneuer Zalman Newfield charts his "Brooklyn Odyssey" out of his Hasidic upbringing. Courtesy of Temple University Press By Lauren Hakimi February 13, 2026 Newfield, a 44-year-old sociology professor at Hunter College, has been asking that very question for years. For his first…...
Does Jewish law say it's OK to lie to the high-roller who wants to manage your rock 'n' roll band?
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (1087+ words) By Peter Himmelman February 12, 2026 This is the third in a series of essays by Peter Himmelman exploring the intersection of Judaism, creativity, and rock "n" roll. The year is 1986. "Hey," I say. "Wouldn"t it be better for everyone to…...
What Carrie Prejean Boller tells us about Christian Zionism in the U.S.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (484+ words) Carrie Prejean Boller at Trump Tower in 2009. Courtesy of Getty Images By Mira Fox February 11, 2026 Carrie Prejean Boller, a former Miss California and a recent Catholic convert, was removed Wednesday from the Religious Liberties Commission after she made some controversial…...
Most American Jews aren’t ‘Zionist’ — so what are they?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (572+ words) By Arno Rosenfeld February 11, 2026 For years, leaders of the nation's largest Jewish organizations have insisted that the overwhelming majority of Jews " often as high as 95% " are Zionists, powerful evidence that anti-Zionism was a form of antisemitism. But there was a…...
Super Bowl ad combatting antisemitism draws criticism from Jews
1+ week, 3+ day ago (451+ words) By Benyamin Cohen February 9, 2026 Artificial intelligence, Uber Eats, Steven Spielberg's next film " and antisemitism. Those were among the topics competing for attention during Sunday's Super Bowl ads. The antisemitism commercial showed a white Jewish high school student being taunted with…...