Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev said that her office would not subsidize two productions featuring nudity at the country’s top arts festival, calling the shows “harmful to the basic values of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.” In a letter to Israel Festival director Eyal Sher, Regev said that full nudity, even in the…
Much of German artist Anselm Kiefer’s work can be captured (to the extent that art can ever be described with total accuracy) in a single word: ruin. Kiefer, born in southwest Germany in 1945 just two months before the end of World War II, has dedicated a large portion of his oeuvre to reckoning with…
WARSAW (JTA) – Seven men and four women who slaughtered a sheep, stripped off their clothes and chained themselves to the gate of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp have been charged with desecrating a monument. The Polish, Belorussian and German protesters gathered Friday afternoon next to the gate, which bears the sign reading “Arbeit macht frei,”…
Jennifer Lawrence at the Paris Fashion Week, July 2014 // Copyright Getty Images There’s nothing like reading a column by a self-proclaimed conservative who equates prudishness with modesty to realize you’re not a prude after all. I am talking about Wendy Shalit’s post on Time.com in which she opines about the Jennifer Lawrence hacked-nude-selfie fiasco,…
A new Facebook page showcases a new way for Israeli women to support the troops — by stripping down practically to their birthday suit. “Standing With the IDF” calls on Israel women to raise morale (so to speak) by uploading sexy pictures of the their bodies, upon which uplifting messages have been scrawled. The page’s…
A Polish photographer did not break the law by conducting a photo shoot with a half-naked model at the Jewish cemetery in Checiny. The city prosecutor in the Polish city of Kielce decided this week that Polish photographer Lukasz Szczygielski did not intend to insult the religious sensibilities of the cemetery of the Jewish community…
In the media’s coverage of the days of rage and violence against the United States that have swept the Muslim world, Jews and Israel have hardly been mentioned; yet they have a place in the beginning, the middle and, we can hope, the end of this story. The beginning: Already seemingly forgotten is that the…
The president of the representative body of France’s Jewish communities has condemned the new publication of caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. The publication Wednesday of the caricatures in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo “in the current context” is “irresponsible,” Dr. Richard Prasquier, the president of the Jewish umbrella body CRIF, said in a statement….
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