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Exhibition and Fundraiser for Zshuk Art Initiative
15, Dec 2011Come spin your Dreidel for gelt! December 21st, 7pm Gallery Bar 120 Orchard Street, NYC Minimum admission $20 Come join us to celebrate Hanukkah while supporting Zshuk. Real chance to buy art work by artists you know and love. Art Auction | Live Music | Svetlana & Friends | DJ Spinach | video projections by […]
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By Karen Chernick for Green Prophert Can’t find your old Hannukah menorah? Israeli designers come up with clever alternatives. With the Jewish Hannukah holiday only a few weeks away, many Jews in the Middle East and elsewhere are anxiously waiting to eat sufganiot (jelly doughnuts) and searching their closets and cupboards for their Hannukah menorahs. […]
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- Tags: Israel, Ritual Objects
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For Tal
8, Dec 2011By Chava Evans for the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals – November 23, 2011 A fellow art student—we’ll call him Tal—once described to me how it felt to wear a skirt for the first time—jubilant, liberated, correct, and uncomfortable. The skirt exposed a deep truth; but even as he felt whole, wearing a skirt […]
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Objects and Spaces that Influence Jewish Memory
7, Dec 2011An Evening of Jewish Art comes to New York and Washington DC Gabriel Bass will be visiting from Israel, where he has just established The Center for the Development of Jewish Art, to discuss the role of Jewish art in maintaining a strong and vibrant Jewish culture. Along with other selected artists, he will demonstrate, […]
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IN THE GLOW
7, Dec 2011Lamplighters Yeshiva Presents IN THE GLOW Basking in the light of creative Jewish women *Looking for artists, vendors, and raffle prize participants*
Miriam Stern, Mass Moca, 2011. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in. Explosive and multi-dimensional, Reflections, a new series by Miriam Stern, brings attention to internal and external forms that shine. Now exhibiting at the Johnsons & Johnsons headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in a building designed by I.M.Pei (the architect of the pyramid […]
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- Tags: Mixed Media, Painting
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SEDER Art Night is Back!
1, Dec 2011SEDER* A meal-based initiative committed to creating a path for rethinking how contemporary Jewish art and culture is financed and experienced communally. Please join Anne Hromadka, Daniella Gold, Kim Newstadt, Will Deutsch and Jessica Shokiran, Director of A Space Gallery, for SEDER… Monday December 12, 2011 7-9pm @ A SPACE GALLERY 3215 Beverly Blvd | […]
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VaYetze—Artist D’var Torah
29, Nov 2011By Anna Fine Foer A young man meets a beautiful young girl at a well and she gives water to his camels. This is a familiar motif in B’reshit. Eliezer, Avraham’s servant, is charged with the mission of finding a match for his son, Yitchak. When Eliezer sees Rivka at a well and she waters […]
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Call for Entries: Cover Thy Head Exhibition
28, Nov 2011The Morris & Sally Justein Heritage Museum Cover Thy Head Exhibition Juried Exhibition of Artist Crafted Kippot – Open Call for Entries Guidelines The Morris and Sally Justein Heritage Museum at Baycrest invites eligible artists to submit applications of an original kippah (yarmulke) to Cover Thy Head a juried exhibition. By completing an application, your […]
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‘ON THE EDGE OF LIGHT’ opens in Miami
24, Nov 2011A group exhibition of Tina Spiro, Janet Slom, Paul Stoppi, Fernando Calzadilla, Yasmin Spiro, Prof. Hans Evers and selected sculpture students of DASH. Curated by Arthur Dunkelman and Tina Spiro. Opening Reception: Tuesday November 29 7:00pm to 9:00pm Maor Gallery 3030 NE 2nd Avenue Miami, Florida (adjacent to Midtown Miami, venue for Art Miami, Scope, […]
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- Tags: Jewish Galleries, Miami, Painting
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