It is deeply troubling to speak about traumatic violence and the bloody, desecrated, and destroyed property of those whose lives…
Objects, trauma, violence, and loss: Telling stories, doing justice
Holocaust
Thinking with Saba Mahmood
Mahmood outlines a set of concepts that are historically central to the workings of secularism and elucidates how they facilitate…
Beyond denial
For a brief moment in 2007, news of a hit Iranian television series, whose Farsi title was translated variously as…
Half-truth stirs Park51 controversy pot
At The Huffington Post, Jeffrey Feldman reports that Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer's claims regarding the Carmelite convent controversy are false.
“A Film Unfinished”
New York Times film critic Jeannette Catsoulis reviews "A Film Unfinished," an analysis of the unfinished Nazi Propaganda "Das Ghetto"…
Delegation of American Muslim leaders visits Auschwitz and Dachau
In Forward, the Jewish weekly newspaper, A.J. Goodman reports on a recent trip of Muslim leaders to Auschwitz and Dachau.
Holocaust survivor dances, controversy ensues
"Dancing Auschwitz" has reappeared on the internet not a year after its release in December of 2009, catching the attention…
Crossing the sacred secular
In her essay on Salazar v. Buono, Winni Sullivan ponders why crosses present such a difficulty for the modern, secular nation-state, and…
A haunting Chagall resurfaces in London
The New York Times reports that the London Jewish Museum of Art has recently acquired a previously unknown Marc Chagall…