Authors Posts by Ranana Dine
Ranana Dine
Ranana Dine is a PhD student at the University of Chicago, focusing in religious ethics. She is also a research assistant in medical ethics at the University of Chicago hospital and the managing editor of IMAGES: A Journal of Jewish Art and Culture. She studied theology and medical humanities as a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, and majored in art and religion at Williams College. She has studied at the Drisha Institute and Mechon Hadar.
Written and Sealed (and Stamped) in the Book of Life
We will all be much more distant from each other this Rosh Hashanah. That’s why, argues Ranana Dine, it’s time to revive the tradition of sending physical greeting cards.
An Obligation of Sight: Depictions of Suffering in the Haggadah
Ranana Dine explores the depictions of suffering in haggadot.
In the Shadow of God: The Mishkan’s “Constructive” Theology
Ranana Dine compares Christian and Jewish views on the value of having a beautiful Temple.
A Religion Without Visual Art? The Rav and the Myth of Jewish Art
If Kant or Hegel had read Rambam or the Shulhan Arukh, they might have known that Jewish law does not actually proscribe the creation of images. But that was not the way of history. It is important to reclaim visual culture and aesthetics for religious Judaism so that beauty can be allowed to inspire halakhically bound actions, to color worship, and give meaning to our rituals.
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