October 11, 2021

Why Jewish Artists and Entertainers Should Never Be the Last to Know

It was a revelatory week for at least two Jewish artists who, improbably, were taken by complete surprise.

Artists customarily profess to be apolitical, sealed off by imagination, guided by muses and not doctrines. Life is just an extension of a movie set, a blank canvas, a blinking cursor. Such purity, they say, often leaves them feeling blindsided by the harsher realities of, well, reality.