Contemporary Jewish Museum
09
Feb
2010
Fuck You Hitler: Mein Kampf Exhibit at the CJM $5
A Jew after my own heart, Linda Ellia has made an art of defacing relics of Nazism. In 2005 Ellia came across a French translation of Hitler’s infamous memoir Mein Kampf (which means ‘œOur Struggle’ in English). Holding the thick manifesto in her hands, she felt an immediate visceral response
23
Dec
2009
What’s a Jew to Do on Christmas Day? Go Where the Wild Things Are!
I don’t like Christmas. There, I said it. To some, that may be the disdainful equivalent of hating puppies or ice cream, but the thing is, I wasn’t one of those Jewish kids raised to simply refrain from the celebration, I was raised to be suspicious of it. While some