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Sep 4, 2026, 3:29 PM

The Fiddler Still Plays, But This Time We Have a Home

My husband Ezry and I at Fiddler on the Roof in Sydney Australia, 2026. (courtesy)

Last night, I went to see Fiddler on the Roof in Sydney. It was fantastic, brilliantly done, and the fiddler was particularly special, my friend and musician Ben Adler, who did a superb job! Throughout the show, there were so many...

Aug 31, 2026, 3:32 AM

It’s Later Than You Think

AI generated image for playground with snow

At the funeral, the only fully living person in the room is dead. His photograph looks down upon government officials who are breathing, drinking and arguing, but who have surrendered so completely to habit and hierarchy that they appear...

Aug 20, 2026, 11:59 PM

From the Cave to Performance and Ritual Act

From the Cave to Performance: Art as a Living Ritual Act This moment of dissolution resonates in a striking way with twentieth-century art: from the cave to the stage and back to the body. The boundary between exterior and interior,...

Aug 14, 2026, 12:38 AM

The Cave as a Laboratory of Consciousness

The Cave as a Laboratory of Consciousness: The Birth of the Artist and the Artwork This phenomenon represents one of the most important revolutions in the history of human consciousness. It marks the transition from an existence devoted to survival...

Aug 12, 2026, 8:18 PM

When Human Beings Transformed the World into Images

The Birth of Abstraction: When Human Beings Transformed the World into Images Approximately forty-five thousand years ago, deep within the darkness of nearly four hundred caves, Homo sapiens began to paint. Until then, this species had lived a nomadic existence, relying...

Aug 12, 2026, 5:03 AM

When ChatGPT Let’s You Down. Don’t Be Afraid To Ask Your AI Buddy–Why?

Over the past year, ChatGPT has conditioned me like a Pavlovian dog. I submitted my story for review and waited, tongue hanging out, for a complimentary AI treat. I drooled when I hit the submit button. But with my...

Aug 11, 2026, 7:49 AM

Boy George–We Will Dance Again

Moshe stared at the screen of his iPhone, smiled, and said, " Mordechai, this one video makes life worth living." "Which one?" Mordechai inquired. "The one by that English-born Catholic lad from a working-class Irish family. The one he sings with...

Sheldon Kirshner

Aug 6, 2026, 6:27 PM

John Galliano’s Journey From Hatred To Repentance

John Galliano, the controversial British fashion designer, will be the subject of an exhibition at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art starting next May 9. Due to run until January 9, 2028, it may well burnish his reputation...

Aug 4, 2026, 8:49 PM

Jews in European Art: An Albanian Portrait

The representation, caricature, and portrayal of Jews in European art is a phenomenon traceable at least to the Middle Ages. Art was frequently utilized for ideological, propagandistic, and political objectives by the Catholic and Protestant Churches, as well as...

Marco Greenberg

Jul 31, 2026, 10:49 PM

The new ‘Birthright’ play moved me – and I didn’t even go on Birthright

The author and his sister, Lara, on the campus of Hebrew University in the summer of 1986.

It captures the life-changing experience of spending time in Israel and doesn't shy from the hard questions participants ask (and argue about) years later

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