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Jun 17, 2025, 6:31 PM

June Birthdays. Reflections on Love and Humanity

Anne Frank's photo at the M.C. Escher's study. Photo (C) Inna Rogatchi

M.C. ESCHER and ANNE FRANK: Untold Story June Birthdays June has some special birthdays, including Anne Frank’s one, on June 12th. We think about it in an emphasized way because as it happened, eighty three years ago, a Jewish girl in...

Jun 12, 2025, 5:42 PM

Overcoming Time: The Art of Producing Humanity

Highlights of The Leiden Collection in Amsterdam Part II Part I of this essay can be read here. History in Front of Us The rare world-class exhibition about which I wrote an introductory essay earlier is on display in Amsterdam, celebrating the city’s...

Jun 10, 2025, 11:27 PM

Gaza comes to an art gallery near you

I grew up surrounded by art. My creative-minded mother installed spotlights in our semi-detached house hallway. Her idea was to light up stair wall panels that displayed her artistic experiments on 'Daler' paper and silk fabrics. As pre-pubescent child she took...

Jun 10, 2025, 5:24 PM

‘The Art Spy’ by Michelle Young – A Book Review

What most intrigued and shocked me in reading this well-written and deeply researched new biography and history called The Art Spy (New York: HarperCollins, 2025, 390 pages, including notes) by the American art historian Michelle Young about Rose Valland (1898-1980), the...

Jun 8, 2025, 9:12 PM

Hollywood Veteran Turns to Jewish History

Stan Isaacs (Photo courtesy of Stan Isaacs)

Stanley Isaacs, a seasoned filmmaker known for the last decade for chronicling Hollywood’s golden years, is now turning his lens to a deeper, more personal subject: the Jewish experience, or more so, the human experience with stories that encompass...

Bonnie K. Goodman

Jun 7, 2025, 4:03 PM

Navigating the Contemporary Art Scene in Israel

The writer recently created a sketch that reflects current themes in Israeli society and religion.

Painting a Life between Memory, Identity, and Resistance By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS When I moved to Jerusalem, I didn’t know that I was also stepping into a new chapter of my artistic life. I came with decades of experience—as...

Jun 1, 2025, 4:47 PM

Message of Humanity, Triumph of Civility: The Leiden Collection in Amsterdam

Rare art exhibition of the Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection in Amsterdam. Spring - Summer 2025. Photo (C) Inna Rogatchi

Part I The Idea, the Space & the Point The city of Amsterdam got extremely lucky. They’ve managed to get the exhibition extraordinaire to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the city with one of the richest histories in the world. In anticipation...

Jun 1, 2025, 11:29 AM

Making music meaningful

Avi Procter produces YouTube videos about the gap year in Israel ("Israel Gap Year B'iyun Podcast") in which he interviews relevant educators. He recently uploaded an episode with R. Dani Kunstler, a rebbe at Toras Shraga and a musician. R....

May 29, 2025, 10:57 AM

Joel Mesler: ‘The Light Within’ Opens in Tel Aviv

Joel Mesler’s latest exhibition ‘The Light Within’ opened this week to a huge crowd in Tel Aviv. Hosted by Nassima Landau Art Foundation, this is the New York-based artist’s first solo show in Israel. Combining a whimsical sense of nostalgia,...

May 21, 2025, 1:16 PM

An Act of Love: Remembering Inbar ‘The Pink Raven’

Dateline: April 2025 – Modiin, Central Israel On Route 443, near a junction which turns you off the Lod-Jerusalem highway towards the town of Modiin, there is a poster of a young woman’s image with the following legend in Hebrew: ‘Ani...

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