| | Plus Kabbalah guru killed, circumcision ban rolled back, and more in the news How will Jewish voters respond?  | |  An exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art searches for the Jewish roots of Rembrandt's Jesus and revisits the Dutch master’s misunderstood relationship with Judaism Like so many other aspects of his life and work, Rembrandt's connection to the Jews has been sentimentalized, overestimated, misappropriated, criticized, dissected—and debunked. In recent years, the image of the artist as a philo-Semite who painted and socialized with his Jewish neighbors has become a topic of intense scholarly debate. Yet the notion that there's something crypto-Jewish about Rembrandt continues to enthrall. More  | As Zionism is under siege and Israelis increasingly see their country as divinely ordained, it's important to remember that the Jewish state is the result not of a miracle but of historical forces and hard work More BY Benjamin Kerstein |  | This week's parasha is a reminder of why we must never exaggerate evil, a lesson ignored by recent pop culture hits, from TV's Damages to Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy More | | | | This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine. To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add digest@tabletmag.com to your address book. To unsubscribe to this email, reply to this email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Tablet Magazine | 37 West 28th Street, 8th floor | New York, NY 10001 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend | |
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