JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
When I first read J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” at nine years old, I was positively desperate to move to Middle Earth. According to an essay published by writer Rabbi Meir Soloveichik in “Commentary” this August, I would have fit right in. Soloveichik’s essay “The Secret Jews of the Hobbit” detailed the inspiration Tolkien…
Sometimes, a bearded, money-grubbing dwarf is just a bearded, money-grubbing dwarf and not an evil, anti-Semitic stand-in for Jews. Undoubtedly some will view “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” — the first in a trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s book “The Hobbit,” directed by Peter Jackson — and find in Tolkien’s mythical creatures not-so-subtly…
Jewcy reviews the work of Bonnie Lucas, “another artist toiling forever as art teacher with a mature body of thirty years work in her fifth floor walk-up.” What better place than Israel for an adult archeology camp? But are Jewish studies on decline in the country’s universities? Talmud study is catching on in South Korea….
