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If there is an opera equivalent to the Sistine Chapel, then Marc Chagall is our Michelangelo. In 1963, the ceiling of the Paris Opera needed a new paint job. André Malraux, France’s then-Minister of Culture, tapped the internationally acclaimed artist. A maelstrom of anti-Semitism erupted, including articles expressing outrage over the idea of a Russian Jew decorating a French […]

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We’ve grown so accustomed to Chabad-Lubavitch’s ubiquity that it is no longer surprising to see Chabad houses popping up everywhere from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Mediterranean archipelago of Malta. But not long ago, Chabad outdid even itself. Chabad traveled to Antarctica. The mission was inspired by a network engineer named Dick Heyman who, 2 years earlier, led the continent’s […]

Ballet has long been associated with tutus and long-necked blondes—which is to say that it is not typically seen as a particularly Jewish form of dance. But for a brief spell in the unlikely location of Stalinist Russia, a virtuosic dancer and choreographer named Leonid Jacobson shifted the form’s patrician associations. During a period in which incorporating religious themes […]

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