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7 July 2008

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 many Biblical themes that reflected his Jewish heritage. In honor of his memory and his contributions to both the Jewish and artistic world Jewneric has [...]

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6 July 2008

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 about the first Lebanon War.
I cannot morally speak about the movie. Any words I would say would ruin it for you. I just can say that [...]

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25 June 2008

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 blog says Wiltshire also wants to draw Tel Aviv, and quotes: “Jerusalem was the hardest city I’ve ever encountered to draw. There are many tiny details [...]

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11 June 2008

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 stoned to death in a cave in Israel by terrorists. The news made headlines around the world, not only for its brutality, but because it [...]

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6 June 2008

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 4th grade’s modern adaptation of the biblical story), but one does wonder (or is it that one’s imagination does wander?)…..
Anyway, CNN.com reported yesterday that [...]

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14 April 2008

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 stands. GT allows you to search up to 5 items, and “see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time.” In the graph [...]

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2 April 2008

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 entry for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is titled “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation” and it is unique because the story revolves [...]

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4 March 2008

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 it as a hobby, and it quickly became an obsession that he was planning on turning into a business venture. We all joked [...]

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20 February 2008

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

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