Art
Video Travel Diary: A Road Trip Across Israel
Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg of The Atlantic captures the essence of this fast-paced emotional travel diary of Israel, “This IsReal”. In her subsequent interview of the director, Filmmaker Matthew Brown brings us into... Read More »
REVIEW: Herb & Dorothy
A cute elderly couple coming from very minimal means + a love for art = one of the world’s greatest collections of modern minimalist art Read More »
The Symbolism of a Diamond Dreidel
Last Monday, Mervis Diamond Importers unveiled the world first ever Diamond Dreidel. When I saw this piece of Judaica, I first thought about what a Dreidel meant to me, followed... Read More »
My End-of-Summer visit to Valmadonna at Sotheby’s by Menachem Butler
[Note: I highly recommend watching the Sotheby's video about the exhibit ~DW] Several months ago I mentioned at the Michtavim blog about the Valmadonna Trust Library, its custodian, Mr Jack... Read More »
Ambiguity in Art vs Ambiguity in Torah
A discussion of ambiguity in Torah and in Art- and whether or not it works completely Read More »
Art Show at the Museum of the Underground Prisoners
Just when you think you’ve seen all that Jerusalem has to offer, along comes a surprise in the most unusual of spaces. For weeks, the Jerusalem municipality has been running... Read More »
Art of the Week – Candlelighting
Mother and Daughter “They light the candles and focus together One guides one learns Two burn&# Read More »
Happy Birthday Marc Chagall
Moshe Shegal (latter changed to Chagall)l was a Russian-Belarusian-French painter of Jewish origin, who was born in Belarus on July 7th 1887. Chagall took inspiration from Belarusian folk-life, and portrayed... Read More »
Waltz with Bashir: A non-review
A challenge is to talk about a movie without divulging any information about said movie. That is the problem with “Waltz with Bashir”, an animated movie I saw last night... Read More »
Mapping the Holy Land
With the Spertus Museum‘s recent “censorship” of its exhibit of Holy Land maps, it is especially nice to see that famous (and autistic) artist Stephen Wiltshire has drawn Jerusalem. One... Read More »
The Blessing of a Broken Heart Hits the Stage
Award Winning Book by Terror Victim’s Mother Comes to NY and DC Stage Seven years ago, Koby Mandell, the 13 year old son of Sherri and Rabbi Seth Mandell, was... Read More »
Haman’s Cup Found Under 70 Year Old Briton’s Bed
OK, that headline was just to grab your attention. I have no way of proving the Cup belonged to Haman from the Purim story in Megillath Esther (or from my... Read More »
Crunching the Jewish Art Numbers
For those of you who haven’t stumbled across the great toy in Google Trends, I highly recommend it. I’ve crunched the numbers below to try to illustrate where Jewish art... Read More »
What Jews Should Know About Brazil’s Entry From This Year’s Academy Awards
There was a lot of buzz around this year’s Academy Awards. One of the films that was generating a significant amount of buzz because of its unusualness was Brazil’s official... Read More »
Stained Glass Windows, More Than Just a Work of Art.
Art has been a constant in my life for as long as I can remember in many different mediums. Stained Glass was introduced when my grandfather retired and stumbled upon... Read More »
Thoughts
I have a revelation to make I wouldn’t tell this to just anybody most people would find this ridiculous and think me either mad or joking Read More »
Chag Sameach
Chag Sameach (Happy Holidays) from all of us at [*picture drawn by Talya Weinberg on Facebook's graffiti application Read More »
