Vogue Blurs the Line between Fashion & Pedophilia with 10 Year Old Model

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 4, 2011

Photographer documents life in Darfur

By Rachel Heller
Published on November 26, 2008

The collection of images Grover brought back offers a tentative answer: Her portraits depict a people traumatized by war, yet able -- through the aid of relief agencies and the sustaining human spirit -- to maintain a measure of hope.

From the San Diego fires—a burning question

By Jessica Levine Kupferberg
Published on November 1, 2007

What would you do if you had 10 minutes to get out of your home, not knowing whether it will still be there tomorrow? What would you take? What would you leave? What is truly indispensable? These are the questions that too many of my fellow San Diegans have faced in the last few days as fires ravage homes all over San Diego County. Members of our shul, families from our day school, my husband's colleagues -- many have been displaced, forced to grab their loved ones, pets and the few things they can't bear to live without.

Barry Frydlender: from camera obscurity to MOMA

By Orit Arfa
Published on March 15, 2007

Barry Frydlender greets a reporter at his apartment in southern Tel Aviv with gentility and reticence. In his spacious living room, a sofa set rests on old, cracked, Arab-style tiles that block a studio nook containing a computer set-up. A window overlooks the Tel Aviv beach promenade, where the 52-year-old Israeli photographer meets friends every morning. All around his living space are slices of Israeli life in the form of mural-sized photographs pinned up on the walls.

Photo exhibit of Persian Jewry on exhibit at Huntington

By Karmel Melamed
Published on October 26, 2006

Jewish photojournalist Shelley Gazin has managed to capture the true essence of Persian Jewish life in a series of photographs.

The Grit Behind the Glamour of L.A. Life

By Erin Aubry Kaplan
Published on February 16, 2006

Despite having a population of far more than 3 million and a cultural and economic diversity rivaled by very few places, Los Angeles is not quite viewed as a real city by much of the outside world.

7 Days in The Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on February 9, 2006

7 Days in the Arts

Art Exhibit Links Trojans, Bruins

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on January 19, 2006

"Makor/Source" marks the first time that the Hillels of the two universities have collaborated on an exhibition. Roughly 20 local artists submitted works to the show, including collages, paintings and photographs.

Qumran Offers Look at Legacy of Scrolls

By Lisa Alcalay Klug
Published on November 17, 2005

Archaeologists believe the Essenes were highly concerned with maintaining their ritual purity and bathed at least twice a day. An aqueduct system caught water from the hills above and channeled it into an elaborate series of mikvahs, or ritual baths.

Spectator - Lessing’s Shots of Liberty

By Gaby Friedman
Published on September 22, 2005

Erich Lessing received his first camera when he exited the synagogue from his bar mitzvah in Vienna in 1936.

"There was no idea of taking up photography as a profession," said Lessing, 82, from his house in Austria. "In a good Jewish family in Vienna you would only be a lawyer or a doctor."

Barbed Wire Fails to Separate Hearts

By Toby Klein Greenwald
Published on August 11, 2005

Almost every war has one photographic image that emerges and that remains ingrained in the public's mind -- and the media -- as the defining picture of that war.

Unspeakable Acts, Incredible Pictures

By David Finnigan
Published on July 14, 2005

A large, striped blue-and-white flag bearing the phrase, "Liberation!" greets visitors at the Museum of Tolerance exhibit, "Liberation! Revealing the Unspeakable," about the Allied soldiers and the starved, dying and dead Jews they discovered while liberating concentration camps.

In a hallway there is a row of photographs of soldiers who became the saviors of survivors. Then, down a set of stairs to the main exhibit area, one gallery wall features a 1945 poem written by an unnamed survivor upon learning of Hitler's death:

I have outlived the fiend
My lifelong wish fulfilled
What more need I achieve
My heart is full of joy

Kids Page

By Abby Gilad
Published on June 16, 2005

Kids Page.

Spectator - ‘Time’: a Truthful Family Portrait

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 2, 2005

"The black-and-white snapshots revealed little worlds and scenes I wanted to bring alive in color," said Shelley Adler, whose "Shades of Time: The Extended Family of Shelley Adler" runs through July 1 at the Workmen's Circle.

7 Days in the Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on March 10, 2005

Three female artists who see no trace of irony in the notion of drawing sculptures display their takes on the theme in Bank's new exhibition, aptly titled, "Sculpture." Bari Ziperstein paints images of stacked crates and cardboard boxes, Sherin Guiguis creates "wall sculptures" and Carrie Ungerman builds site-specific installations out of organic and everyday materials.

7 Days in the Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on December 23, 2004

7 Days in the Arts

Israelis Question Army Morality

By Leslie Susser
Published on December 16, 2004

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says the IDF remains the most moral army he knows, but critics suggest that the relentless terrorist war has brutalized young soldiers who frequently vent their frustrations on Palestinian civilians.

7 Days In Arts

Published on September 2, 2004

7 Days in the Arts

The Haunting of the Weird

By Gaby Wenig
Published on February 26, 2004

Diane Arbus, acknowledged as one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, thought photographs were the ultimate enigma.

Picture Imperfect

By Andrew Wallenstein
Published on February 5, 2004

Although we had never met, I knew I would have no trouble recognizing Brenda the second she walked into the Melrose Avenue bar where I sat waiting for her. After all, it was her photograph -- the leonine curve of her green eyes and coquettish cap of blond curls -- that compelled me to contact her on an online dating site where I happened upon her profile. We conversed via e-mail and agreed to meet in person.

Go for a Holy Dip

By Gaby Wenig
Published on October 23, 2003

Picture a woman floating submersed in a warm bath, the water enveloping her like the womb and bringing her to a renewed state of spiritual purity.

Arafat,the Anti-Icon

By Josh Mitnick
Published on September 4, 2003

Leaders of the world have called him irrelevant, and indeed he has been largely replaced in world affairs.

7 Days In Arts

Published on September 4, 2003

Betty Green's paintings work on so many levels -- seriously.

7 Days In Arts

Published on August 28, 2003

7 Days in Arts

Diaspora Diversity Focus of ‘Portraits’

By Diane Arieff
Published on July 17, 2003

An Argentine gaucho lounges near his horse. A Bombay bride displays her upturned palms, filigreed entirely with henna. An Ethiopian boy lights candles with a classmate. A woman poses stiffly in her kitchen in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. What unites these disparate images is that the people depicted in them are Jews, all of them captured in black and white by Israeli-born photojournalist Zion Ozeri.

7 Days In Arts

Published on March 27, 2003

Workmen celebrate women today (and tomorrow), as The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring presents "Rosa: A Play About Rosa Luxemburg."

7 Days In Arts

Published on February 27, 2003

7 Days in Arts

7 Days In Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on January 30, 2003

Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner, a Cuban American and a Jewish American (respectively), are "the hottest young architects in Los Angeles," according to The New York Times Magazine.

Magnolias and Menorahs

By Ruth Andrew Ellenson
Published on October 17, 2002

"Shalom Y'all: Images of Jewish Life in the American South" photography by Bill Aron, text by Vicki Reikes Fox (Algonquin Books, $24.95).

While the idea of Southern Jews may be as improbable for some as snacking on matzah while drinking a mint julep, in fact, the American South has had a thriving Jewish community since the early 1700s.

7 Days In Arts

Published on September 5, 2002

7 Days In The Arts

7 Days In Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on July 4, 2002

These guys' names may not sound familiar, but chances are they've made you laugh. Jim Gaffigan is probably best known for his role on "The Ellen Show," and John Pinette's stand-up routine about the Chinese buffet has practically become a classic.

‘Faces’ of Heroism

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on July 4, 2002

At 7 feet tall, the free-standing photos in the Skirball's "Faces of Ground Zero: A Tribute to America's Heroes" show
literally loom larger than life. Grizzled firefighter Louie Cacchioli, who dodged hellish traps before leading 50 people down 23 floors, cradles his helmet like an infant. Window washer Jan Demczur, wearing a meek expression, holds the squeegee he used to pry open an elevator and bash through a wall. Joanne Gross, her eyes bewildered, clutches her brother Tommy's firefighter and cowboy hats. Next to her stands a photo of her other firefighter brother, Danny, who searched the rubble 24 hours a day until he found Tommy's body.

Hollywood Flashback

By Michael Aushenker
Published on August 2, 2001

Film scenes captured by Leo Fuchs during his days freelancing for magazines such as Life and Look, is among 80 on display at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.