Consider a world in which the glass ceiling shelters your rabbi’s tisch, and boys clubs are divinely sanctioned in the form of chavrusa, mezuman, and minyan. Enter Shana Strauch Schick, who later this month will become the first woman to earn a doctorate in Talmud from Yeshiva University, the co...

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• Images released by Syria’s state media show the damage to the city of Hama after a seige by Syrian military forces. [ NYT ] • The unbelievable story of the 101-year-old Leon Weinstein, who survived the Warsaw Ghetto and was reunited with his young daughter in 1945, after four years of...

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• A bill brought to the Knesset that would recognize Israel as a Jewish state has 42 of the 61 votes needed to be signed into law. Most controversially, the bill would declare Hebrew the country’s official language, while Arabic would have a “special status.” [ JTA ] • The (very scar...

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Split-Scre en-Telefon ate gab es im Kino schon vor hundert Jahren, bei Albert Capellani. Rechts und links: Mann und Frau, und zwischen beiden eine Straßenansicht. Modernes Triptychon. In Stanley Donens Indiscreet (1958) telefonieren Cary Grant und Ingrid Bergman in einem illusorischen...

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A twist on our regular feature Collection Rotation . Steve Evans selects from the exhibition The Steins Collect, and issues an invitation to reading and listening to Gertrude Stein. Enjoy! Henri Matisse, Sketch for Le Bonheur de vivre, 1905�'6 “By whose invitation do you come?�...

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A reflection on today’s readings , Sunday, April 10, 2011 .......

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Original drawing for IDIOM by Dominique Holmes Recently the British tabloid Daily Mail has been running a series called “Confessions of a Reluctant House Husband.” It’s the misadventures, in case the title left you in doubt, of a former breadwinner now reduced to homemaking. Hilarity a...

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A year after the tragic Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in 1911, sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman created a memorial , commissioned by the City of New York, to the seven female victims whose remains could not be identified. The city installed the sculpture with little public attention in the Cemet...

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