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Yeshiva Art

13, Jul 2011

Drisha Arts Fellows Explore Shabbat By Richard McBee for the Jewish Press Drisha Institute for Jewish Education www.drisha.org   Who would have guessed that a yeshiva would have an Arts Program? If I had died and gone to heaven, surely the World to Come would look like this. And yet for seven years, on the […]

Artists Beit Midrash Thrives At Skirball

1, Jul 2011

By Yona Verwer The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning offers 2 unique study groups: a beit midrash (“house of study”) for artists and a second one for writers. Having attended the Skirball program myself 5 years ago, I was drawn specifically to its visual aspect—students explore Jewish sources and create new visual commentaries inspired by […]

Acts of Kindness and Jewish Art: The Art of Tanya Fredman

29, Jun 2011

By Richard Mcbee for the Jewish Press Acts of loving kindness – this mitzvah is included next to Torah study in the precepts that have no limit, as well as the precepts that are rewarded in this world and in the World to Come. This is surly one of the choicest mitzvot available to us […]

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Israel Film Festival Review: Brothers

23, Jun 2011

By Saul Sudin Igaal Niddam’s Brothers opens on a beautiful field under a warm sun casting its rays down on a man and his herd of sheep. You can tell from this initial image how blessed the land is, and the shepherd, writing poetry in his journal, harkens back to biblical greats like King David. […]

Israel Film Festival Review: Chametz & Lenin In October

6, Jun 2011

By Eszter Margit The made for television short Chametz, directed by Alon Levi, won the Best Television Drama Film award at the Haifa International Film Festival in 2010. Chametz follows 15-year-old Ayala (Noa Kashi) as she returns from boarding school to help her mother (Reymond Amsalem) prepare for Passover. There she discovers the real reason […]

Israel Film Festival Review: This Is Sodom

18, May 2011

By Saul Sudin The Israeli film “This is Sodom” (Zohi Sdom) is a spinoff of the popular comedy television series “Wonderful Country” (Eretz Nehederet), a sort of Israeli Saturday Night Live. Like many feature films rooted in comedy television, it ultimately succeeds or fails based on the audience’s interest in the comedic style and approach. […]

‘Brooklyn Shtetl’ Opens at the Hadas Gallery

15, May 2011

By Joshua Stulman Hadas Gallery is proud to present the recent paintings by emerging artist, Ali Spechler. Move over Marc Chagall, this isn’t Jewish shtetl life! “Brooklyn Shtetl” is a series of contemporary Jewish portraiture by painter Ali Spechler. Her informal paintings underline the complexity and variety of how “Jewishness” is expressed in our modern […]

Ex-Haredi Artists Grapple With Their Pasts

3, May 2011

By Shulem Deen for the Arty Semite A photo of a woman wrapped in phylacteries might not seem very bold after Leonard Nimoy’s “Shekhina” project. But to many of the artists at the opening of a new art exhibit called “All in the Eye,” a photograph of a woman adorned with tallit and tefillin, eye to […]

JTS Exhibits Artists in Residence

2, May 2011

By SUDINmag The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) presents Volumes II, an exhibition by JTS artists in residence that is now open at the JTS library in New York. From books to fabric sculptures, graphic novel illustrations, and cereal box aprons (!?), this second exhibition of work by JTS artists in residence is as diverse as […]

Video: ‘Next Year in Uman: A Journey to Ukraine’

1, May 2011

By Ezra Glinter and Nate Lavey originally published on The Arty Semite Photo by Ahron D. Weiner In 2004, photographer Ahron D. Weiner took his first trip to the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, Ukraine. Before his death in 1810, Nachman is said to have promised that if his followers came to his […]


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