Articles in Arts and Culture
By Janis Seftel
“It was great. Really good vibe. But it didn’t really feel like anyone my age was there. I told my friends about it, but I guess people had things on.”
If you’re young, artsy …
By Anne Sarzin and Lisa Miranda Sarzin
It is not an uncommon part of the human experience for casual conversations and chance encounters to launch us in a new direction or to begin an extraordinary …
By Emma Schwarcz
If you take all of Jewish history – all 5000-odd years of it – and whittle it down so that it can fit on four large stretches of butcher paper, and you stick …
By Daniel Ari Baker
Happily and unexpectedly, Limmud Oz took me far away from Monash Caulfield and deep into Eastern Europe; on Sunday 13 June, I rode a train with Sholem Aleichem through turn-of-the-century Ukraine with …
Dancing in the Dark – an author’s debt to Chaim Potok
by Robyn Bavati
When I was in my teens, the book industry in Australia wasn’t the thriving one it is today. Almost all the books I …
By Ghil’ad Zuckermann
‘I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and …
By Aaron Rosen
When Father Marie-Alain Couturier invited Jacques Lipchitz to contribute a baptismal font for a new Church in Assy, France in 1946, the artist was puzzled. Perhaps, the sculptor delicately responded, the priest was …
By Liz Paratz
In the story of Purim, Haman is a clear descendant of Amalek and the ‘bad guy’. The mission conducted by Esther and Mordechai to expose Haman and save the Jews is completely successful …
By Almoni
For the past ten years I’ve had an increasing interest with Renaissance Art: Duccio, Giotto, the Lippis, Martini, della Francesca and many others. For all of them – and for earlier wonderful painters like …
by Sibella Stern
I beat John Safran to the Filipino punch. I just want everyone to know that. (And I didn’t need a Spielberg-style budget or cast of thousands to get my kicks at the cost …
