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Tag Archives: gender
2 Grants in Jewish Studies & Gender
Cashmere Subvention Grant in Jewish Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Applications due April 15 The AJS Women’s Caucus announces a grant of $1000 to support scholarly publication in the area of Jewish Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Book proposals to … Continue reading
Christa, and Queer and Other Icons at St John the Divine
I went too late to see the Christa Project: Manifesting Divine Bodies on view at St John the Divine. But Christa is still up there, installed over the altar, as well as these other icons. About the Christa image as a … Continue reading
Jews, Germans, Women and the Spiritual in Art in America (Creating a Modern Guggenheim)
They won’t do the ethnic tagging at the Guggenheim, but I will. Why now, Visionaries: Creating A Modern Guggenheim, this big exhibition of the museum’s holdings organized to show the history of its founding visionaries and mission. Originally created as … Continue reading
Haredi Transgender (Abby Stein)
In the depressing and dreary state of our political world in the Age of Trump, this is touching and lovely story about the power of transformation and self-creation is life affirming. For those who can’t get behind the Ha’aretz paywall … Continue reading
(My Working Will Be the Work) Maintenance Art and the Messianic (Mierle Laderman Ukeles)
As it turns out, Jewish ritual, the idea of the holy, informs much of this artist’s work and her thought. They cut against the grain of “messianism” in ways that are at once profound and ordinary. My introduction to her … Continue reading
Such a Nasty Woman (Miri Regev & the Intersectional Right in Israel)
Shes’ right, of course. In comparison to her, the Israeli creative class and Jewish left, those largely Ashkenazi elites, are out maneuvered and “tight-assed.” No one knows how to play the political field like Culture Minister Miri Regev, who works at … Continue reading
Ethics & Halakhah, Israel & ISIS?
Slated to be the next chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces, Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim has made statements against inducting women into the army and permitting rape of non-Jewish women during times of war. The latter was said to have … Continue reading
