'Film Socialisme' reflects French filmmaker's interest in Jews' significance A re-imagining of the bestseller Unofficial Dylan tablature site boycotts Israel, despite songwriter's beliefs In case you missed the message With religious exemptions in place, N.Y. state Sen. Saland voted his conscience  | |  A new doll is inspired by Adele Bloch-Bauer, Klimt's famous Austrian Jewish model. It's one of a new series of collector's edition dolls dedicated to great works of art. She was the model for (and possibly the lover of) Gustav Klimt, whose ravishing golden portrait of her, finished in 1907 and modeled on Byzantine mosaics of Empress Theodora in Ravenna, came to symbolize the edgy glamour of fin de siècle Vienna. But it was only after her death in 1925 that Adele Bloch-Bauer became a worldwide celebrity, when the shimmering portrait became the focus of an international legal battle over its status as Nazi war loot. Eventually restituted to the niece of the sitter, Portrait of Adele Bloch I became famous for yet another reason: In 2006, it was sold to Ronald Lauder for a reported $135 million, said to be the highest price paid for an artwork at the time. "Our Mona Lisa," as Lauder called her, now resides in the Manhattan museum he founded, the Neue Galerie, across Fifth Avenue from the Metropolitan Museum, and she has begun earning her keep by inspiring a jewelry line designed and executed by experts from the Gem Palace Jaipur, offering such steals as an $8,750, 22-carat spiral cuff bracelet. More  | By establishing a Jewish majority in Palestine, Israel distinguished itself from other Middle East minority groups, which suffer physical fear and intellectual confusion, even if they hold power More |  | I have conflicted feelings toward Israel, but I love my daughter's progressive, tolerant, anti-bullying, anti-materialist—and, yes, Zionist—summer camp More |  | In between color wars and singalongs, some Jewish summer camps include Holocaust education in their programming. What does that teach campers about Jewish identity? More | |
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