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Art His art is chock-full of American pop culture references, so why is it more popular abroad?
Jonathan Horowitz uses icons like Madonna and Michael Jackson to take on authoritarianism and antisemitism
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Art A is for apron belly, B is for birthmark: How one Jewish artist celebrates all kinds of bodies
Tyler Feder wants to normalize a more accurate depiction of society as it truly is, rather than focusing on one small slice of it
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Art A nuanced and disquieting vision of Europe after the Holocaust
Thirty years ago, photographer Jill Freedman sought to document sites of destruction and the resurgence of Jewish life
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Art How a new Jewish holiday is inspiring a new Jewish ritual
31 'tzedek boxes' are inspiring viewers to take stock of their behavior year-round
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Art How one artist’s work mattered even more than the subjects he photographed
Julius Shulman's photography did a better job of selling buildings than the buildings themselves
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Art ‘I am the map, the quilt, and tablecloth of those who have come before me’
'HaMapah,' a new installation at Fentster, traces dancer Adam McKinney's multifaceted ancestry
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Books Slave and victim of the Nazi regime — the complicated legacy of Bruno Schulz
Benjamin Balint delves into the history of the 'virtuoso of language and image' who was murdered on 'Black Thursday'
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Art A Jewish painter, perhaps, but undeniably a spiritually transcendent one
Standing before the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler, it's hard not to feel a sense of awakening
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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Fast Forward ‘I will not be silenced’: Josh Shapiro invokes assassination attempt in address on rising hate violence
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