This was a year whose high points included Joan Jonas’s luminous survey, the extravaganza “PST ART,” and the 24-karat beauty of a show “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.” By ...

(Breishit Rabbah 78:14) This Midrash ties our parsha to the haftarah– Ovadia’s one-chapter book of prophecy, to Edom, the descendants of Eisav. Ovadia harshly criticizes the people of Edom for ...