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2012 LABA Festival: Blueprint

29, Apr 2012

The LABA Festival: Blueprint 5.17.2012 – 5.19.2012 Contemporary art with a Jewish spin, performances and installations inspired by ancient Jewish texts. Featuring the music of Alicia Jo Rabins, live action puppet cinema by Zvi Sahar, a poetry reading by Eugene Ostashevsky, theater by Michael Bradley Cohen and site-specific art installations by Anita Glesta, Ghiora Aharoni, […]

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US Premiere of The Rabbi’s Cat

17, Apr 2012

French film “Le Chat du Rabbin” (“The Rabbi’s Cat”) premiers at the Museum of Modern Art in New York By Michael Brick Last summer, crowds of enthusiastic French theatergoers welcomed the wide release of Le Chat du Rabbin, (“The Rabbi’s Cat,”) an adaptation of the exceptionally popular graphic novel by Joann Sfar, who also directed the film. […]

Freedom and Choice, the work of Efraim Moskovics

10, Apr 2012

By Jessica White, Vienna Efraim Moskovics is a photographer who challenges form and structure in a peaceful and non-threatening way. He takes familiar rituals and traditions in Judaism, to look at them in abstraction, from a different viewpoint, one that is contemporary and full of rich influences from literature, film and contemporary art. In doing so, he reveals what is within a community, […]

Gather the Broken Omer Blog

8, Apr 2012

COUNTING THE OMER. fifty days, fifty fragments: one a day, one solid journey. to gather 1 – to assemble, collate, collect, draw together 2 – to understand, infer 3 – to summon up (a mental or physical attribute such as one’s thoughts or strength) broken hearts, broken dreams, broken promises. the bits and pieces that […]

Distorting (a messiah project, 13C)

4, Apr 2012

By Elke Reva Sudin Distorting (a messiah project, 13C) by Justin Stewart is an installation depicting the concept of messiah as existed in the 13th century. Fleece is stretched to look like a hard form and is positioned through an intricate web of rope and plastic as a way of using architecture to represent an idea. The installation is curated by […]

Why Is This Haggadah Different from All Other Haggadot?

2, Apr 2012

By Ellen Shapiro for PrintMag “If I touch the letters, I think and I hope that people will be touched by them.” So said Israeli graphic and type designer Oded Ezer yesterday in a 1.5 hour Skype interview with me about The New American Haggadah, published this month by Little, Brown and Company. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of haggadot  — books containing […]

Matzo and Modern Art

2, Apr 2012

From a Jonathan Adler Seder plate to a mezuzah that evokes the parting of the Red Sea, high-design Passover tchotchkes for your home By Stephanie Butnick for Tablet Laura Cowan’s magnetic matzo plate. (Laura Cowan) It’s not very often you see a mezuzah that stops you in your tracks. But Tamara Connolly has done just […]

Call for Entries: Haggadot.com

27, Mar 2012

Haggadot.com invites Jewish artists of any medium to share their work in the world’s largest online, collaborative Haggadah. To submit, visit Haggadot.com and create an account. Upload any Passover-related artwork, writings or even audio / video files. Contributors may also include a bio, photo, and links to their personal websites.

Archie Granot’s Contemporary Papercut Haggadah

26, Mar 2012

In the tradition of innovative contemporary Jewish papercut arts, comes “The Papercut Haggadah” by Archie Granot. Commissioned by Sandra and Max Thurm, Archie Granot’s Papercut Haggadah was handcrafted using the Jewish folk art tradition of papercutting. The result is a series of 55 pages that employ intricate geometric and abstract shapes and calligraphic text to create an […]

The New Sacred: Ritual Textiles by Rachel Kanter

25, Mar 2012

March 29 – July 23, 2012 Opening Reception & Artist’s Talk Thursday, March 29, 6 – 8pm Exhibit organized by Wendi Furman, Director, PMJA More about the exhibit on our website Rachel Kanter, “Jewish, Woman and Farmer #2 – Lisa Weiss, Whitefield Farm”, ” Immersion: Rebirth” Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art is one of the venues […]


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