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25 songs from local musicians to light up your Hanukkah nights

This J.-made Hanukkah playlist brings together some local Jewish artists with songs to set the mood for the holiday season.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Famed Jewish expressionist Ben-Zion Weinman will be spotlighted in a NYC exhibition for the first time in 25 years

“Ben-Zion: Hineni – I Am Here” will be on view at Brooklyn’s Maor Art Gallery for five weeks, beginning Saturday, Feb. 1. For the first time in 25 years, the works of famed Jewish expressionist ...
The Forward

What do Jewish, Christian and Muslim artists talk about when they talk about ‘Genesis’?

“It’s God as self-portrait,” the artist Yona Verwer told me as she explained Genesis, from Something to Nothing, an evocative but admittedly cryptic piece that she describes as “a ruptured metallic ...
Yahoo

Photos: Jewish drag artists raise money for Brooklyn and Gaza refugees

photo gallery Full Moon Drag troupe anti Zionist Jewish queer artists HOT 2 ROT Sukkot Drag Spectacular outside community garden Brooklyn NY Alexa Wilkinson for Full Moon Drag Last Sunday, a troupe of ...
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Jewish artists seek to process grief and healing in solidarity with Palestinians in art exhibition

Artist Sharon Jaffe had been busy working in her clay studio when she heard a voice from her ceramic golems, mythological creatures that serve as helpers or protectors to the Jewish community.
Jewish United Fund

A fellowship of artists fuse Judaism and contemporary art

Members of the Jewish Artists Collective Chicago express Jewish themes through a variety of artistic mediums. Local artist Carol Neiger sees Judaism as "such a rich religion full of history, liturgy, ...
KQED

At CJM, Jewish Artists Explore ‘Connection’ During a Time of Division

See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9, PLUS and Passport schedules. Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor ...
The Times of Israel on MSN

Berlin art exhibit in former Nazi bunker explores Jewish experience after October 7

Works by 'Maus' cartoonist Art Spiegelman, ousted Putin apparatchik-turned-gallerist Marat Gelman and others take aim at ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A fashion show in Tribeca attempts to capture ‘The Jewish Uniform’

(New York Jewish Week) – Hip-hop music blasted through loudspeakers as about a dozen models strutted up and down a makeshift runway. Some of them wore cream knit loungewear, while others were clad in ...
Newsday

Artists on Antisemitism IV exhibit at Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center in Commack shows strength

It wasn’t long after Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that Israeli-born artist Efrat Baler-Moses began processing the event and her feelings with her paintbrushes and canvases. “It’s visceral, it just ...
Jewish United Fund

The antidote to antisemitism

Pictured from left: Jewish authors Teme Ring, Lisa Barr, and Alison Hammer. An upsurge in antisemitism comes as little surprise to Chicago- and Los Angeles-based lawyer-turned-writer Teme Ring, who ...