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Simone Suzanne Kussatz

Dec 15, 2025, 4:25 PM

In One Breath: Claire Tabouret at Grand Palais

Installation view of Claire Tabouret’s In One Breath. © Simon Lerat / Courtesy of the Grand Palais

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being, and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it becomes. It...

Jul 1, 2019, 3:14 PM

Talking Heads 2: Men

When you walk down the street in Jerusalem and see someone, you instantly know everything you could ever want to know about their religious standing. Israeli men’s headgear and hairstyles, even more than that of women, tells us about...

Jonathan Feldman

Apr 30, 2019, 2:39 PM

When Someone Else’s Icon is the Symbol of Your People’s Persecution

Sinagoga (the synagogue) blinfolded on the facade of Notre Dame de Paris, Rober E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia

My first time visiting Notre Dame de Paris was when I was 11 years old. I grew up going to a French school, and visited Paris regularly with my family. The towering spires, the gargoyles, the nooks and crannies...

Apr 29, 2019, 12:21 AM

Horror and Hope at the Portals of Notre Dame

In 1981, I spent 10 weeks on a traveling fellowship in Europe while in architectural school, fulfilling the very loose directive to go forth and draw. It is a very different notion of travel to sit, draw and think...

Barbara Diamond

Apr 25, 2019, 4:44 PM

Who is afraid Netanyahu could go ‘rogue’?

We have been hearing for years that the UK’s Guardian newspaper is anti-Israel. Sometimes it is just a shock to see an opinion piece based on absolutely nothing but Arab propaganda placed into the hands of a UK columnist...

Apr 20, 2019, 9:10 PM

An American’s Perspective: The Devastating Fire at Notre Dame

I’m a Jew, and yet I feel an immense sense of loss caused by the damaging fire at Notre Dame in Paris. And if you also don’t feel a personal sense of loss, if you don’t have a sense that...

William Hamilton

Apr 19, 2019, 7:36 PM

“Today’s problems are so vast. How could a single good deed amount to more than a drop in a bucket?” Rabbi Joel Sisenwine warmly fielded the question. “Drops in a bucket may seem minor. But we pray to God...

Apr 18, 2019, 10:35 AM

Notre Dame and Pesach — it’s about the symbol, my friend

We’re all humans. We’re meaning making creatures. We define ourselves by our stories, our myths. In a fundamental sense, we are, despite the assumptions of so much economic theory, non-rational creatures. Feelings are real to us. And, so then,...

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Apr 18, 2019, 10:05 AM

Should Jews help rebuild Notre-Dame?

Two Fires in Paris – The Talmud and Notre Dame When I shared some initial reflections, as I watched the image of Notre Dame set afire,I ignored one discussion that came up within minutes of the news breaking. A member...

Apr 18, 2019, 12:24 AM

Paris Weeps as Notre Dame Burns

Notre Dame ablaze

April 15th, President Macron was scheduled to address the nation at 8 PM, to present a sort of executive summary of government policy, revised but not diverted by five months of weekly Gilet Jaune actions. I switched on the...

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