Birkat Chaverim
I am pleased to share this note about Adina Gatt at the Oscar's. I have long admired the work of friend and textile artist Adina Gatt and have enjoyed using her work for holidays and Shabbatot. Her use of color and texture is incredible and I love how her work can look both traditional and modern at the same time. Her work is hand pieced and embr ...
Every once in a while I post about a website I built. I'm posting about this one now because it is now officially live. In general I built sites for small businesses and nonprofit organizations. This site, teesatrisk.com is the site of Tees at Risk, a For-Benefit company meant to give current and former at-risk youth a place to express themselves as ...
In honor of Rosh Chodesh (considered a woman's holiday) I am posting an invitation to an exhibition sponsored by The Jewish Women’s Artists Network at the Kraft Center at Columbia University. Disclosure: my very talented aunt is one of the participating artists (she is concurrently in three exhibitions in the New York area, but this is the most app ...
We have two new Hanukkah bencher covers. On facebook I showed the blue one, which is very closely related to the Maoz Tzur book in the shop. This is an attempt to try some other colors. I very rarely use red. Not sure how I like it yet but if anyone has any suggestions for new color combinations, I'm happy to hear them. I find that many many people ask ...
In honor of Hanukkah I wanted to post a picture that I took a while back of the Menorah which sits on top of the old Bezalel building in Jerusalem. I can't remember if its the original menorah or not (I seem to recall that at some point they took it down and it was in an exhibition. I assume this is the original.) There's a cool picture from 1913 of the ...
I made a small change to how the Bnei Akiva benchers are listed on the website. Up until now the store had an additional option in the order options to order a "Custom Order." Our intention there was that if someone did not want to use some of the existing designated designs or provide their own artwork, they could choose a custom designed logo option f ...
I've been working on this for the past few days and some of you Toronto readers may be interested in attending- Simi Peters will be giving a lecture on "Abraham Breaks the Idols Not for Children Only" July 14th and July 13-15th there will be Beit Midrash style learning focusing on Bilam and Bnei HaElohim. For more information email cfnishmat at gmail. ...
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This is an old design that I used for Purim cards one year and also decorated wooden and metal boxes with. This has a Canadian influence, or rather Inuit design influence. I find it cheerful and simple. For those celebrating today or tomorrow Purim Sameach!
Chodesh Tov and happy new year. Before you wonder what thats about, yesterday as I was walking with my daughter and husband a large group of people of Chinese descent walked by with Israeli flags waving. They were saying "Shalom! Happy New Year!" and handed out red envelopes with dollars inside for Chinese New Year. They were apparently an evangelical C ...