Why a Judaism and Art Discussion Group?
We inaugurated the program at the 75th Anniversary observance of Kristallnacht “the Night of Broken Glass” in November, 2013. Saul Rosenstreich led a discussion based on a Yad Vashem exhibit illustrated by portraits painted in the concentration camps of interred Jews by Jewish artists, all who ultimately perished in the camps.
Judaism & Art Activities
Oculus: Eye On Art
This month’s Oculus feature was inspired by Rabbi Gadi’s tour of the Magdala archaeological site in Israel, arranged by the rabbi as part of a Kristallnacht remembrance program and offered live on Zoom from [...]
Oculus: Eye On Art
Images of 75 Holocaust Survivors Mark the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz “Survivors: Faces of Life After the Holocaust” by renown portrait photographer Martin Schoeller is on view at the Museum of Jewish [...]
Oculus: Eye On Art
This painting, titled “First Day of School,” is the work of a contemporary Israeli artist named Boaz Noy, who lives and works in Haifa. I had been introduced to Noy’s work in an oil-painting class [...]
Oculus: Eye On The Arts
“My heart is in the East and I am at the edge of the West” wrote the renowned poet, scholar and physician Yehudah Halevi when his heart was exiled in medieval Spain. “As for me,” [...]
Oculus: Eye On The Arts
This month’s Oculus feature, titled “Windows From the Pandemic,” is an 18” x 18” collage, created with acrylics, oil sticks and markers on canvas by Judith K. Weiner, a founding member of the shul’s Judaism [...]
Oculus: Eye On The Arts
Two new pieces have been added to the Shehechyanu Curtain, left, a painting by Saul Rosenstreich, and a fabric collage by Liz Adams. The curtain envisions responses by congregants to the Covid pandemic and [...]
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