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Addendum to A View from the American Guild of Judaic Art’s Mentor Program

This is an addendum to  A View from the American Guild of Judaic Art’s Mentor Program,  Flora Rosefsky's post about mentoring in the American Guild of Judaic Art program. For background, the  American Guild of Judaic Art's started a Judaic Visual Arts On-Line Mentoring Program. The program is open to students in grades 7-12. Flora Rosefsky spoke about m ...

Jerusalem biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art

First Annual Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art

I'm very pleased to be able to write about the first annual Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art (September 15 through October 31st.) This first year will have five exhibitions in five separate locations. This looks like it should be very exciting and interesting. There are about fifty artists, both Israeli and International, emerging and esta ...

Temma Gentles Shiva Box via Birkat Chaverim

Temma Gentle’s Shiva Box

Its almost the end of the three weeks so I have been posting items related to themes of the times. Mourning is one of those themes. When my father passed away, one of the things that were helpful during the shiva was that the chevra kadisha had given us a book where people could write comments. This was both comforting because people wrote about things ...

Kol Haot Group Project Image courtesy Kol Haot

Kol HaOt – Illuminating Jewish Life through Art

We are happy to have a guest post from Kol Haot as part of the Mitzvot Unplugged Series. A fuller version of this post appeared in the Lookstein Journal Jewish Educational Leadership: The Arts in Jewish Education A short note, although i have never participated in the series, many years ago I visited David Moss's Jerusalem studio with my parents and my ...