Milin Havivin Vol. 7 – Beloved Words

Volume 7 – 2013-2014

Painting

Judaism and Artistic Creativity: Despite Maimonides and Thanks to Him – Menachem Kellner

The Meaning of Beauty – Tobi Kahn

Visual Art and Judaism – Jill Nathanson

Lernen To See: “Modernity,” Torah and the Study of Jewish “Art” – Steven Fine

Artistic Engagement with Halakhah – Ben Schachter

Contemporary Jewish Art: The Challenge – Richard McBee

“My Beloved is Like a Gazelle”: The Esthetic Messiah (An Essai in Rabbinic Surrealism, or Another Jewish Bestiary) – Bezalel Naor

A Jewish Art – Susan Nashman Fraiman

Dance

Beit Midrash in Motion – Dalia Davis

Theater

What’s Jewish about FELA!? – Ruth Hendel

Music

The Torah as Song and the Rabbinic Sage as Troubadour – James A. Diamond

Poetry

Poetry and the Complexities of Remembrance: An Appeal – David Mahan

Literature

Mount Moriah and the Labyrinth: Back to the Sources in A. B. Yeshoshua’s Mr. Mani – Joseph Lowin

Some Personal Reflections on Literary Artistry in the Bible – Marc Zvi Brettler

Film

“Fear Not”: ‘Our Man’ Robert Redford in J. C. Chandor’s “All Is Lost” – Daniel Ross Goodman

A Judaism Engaged with the Arts

Some Notes on Religion and the Arts – Daniel Ross Goodman

Tanakh and Jewish Thought

The Relationship Between Tisha B’av and the Book of Job – David Fried

Torah im Derekh Eretz as a Means of Last Resort – Marc B. Shapiro

The Necessity of Appointing Rabbis who are Knowledgeable in Torah and Secular Studies to Serve as Rabbis in the State of Israel (Hebrew) – Marc B. Shapiro