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The Southern Jewish Experience, Photographs by Bill Aron, Text by Vicki Reikes Fox Imagining the tempting aroma of pecan pie and fresh challah the age-old rhythms of Southern Jewry unfold before our eyes in the seductively handsome exhibition of photographs, Shalom Y'all, currently at the…
Rembrandt Etchings Walking out of the US Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C. the stench of mass murder was overpowering. Western Civilization, that hubristic culture celebrating man's highest aspirations, seemed obscene. Stately government buildings that bespoke American power and beneficence only reminded me of American rejection…
The Nineteen Diaspora Paintings Why should we bother with art? A waste of time, bitul Torah, perhaps even a lure into apikores.... viewing art, not to mention making it, could be viewed as a can of worms best left unopened. Alas, our tradition is to…
Director of the Jewish Image:  Frederic Brenner's Photographs at the Brooklyn Museum Jews with Hogs, Miami Beach, Florida, 1994, Fiberbase gelatin silver print, 117 x 41 by Frederic Brenner Jews with Hogs (1994) is the first image one encounters in Frederic Brenner's exhibition of photographs of…
Marking the Land of Israel: Photographs of Chanan Getraide What makes the Land of Israel so special? Given to us by God this wonderfully diverse corner of earth is much more of a “gift” than meets the eye. It is a gift that carries responsibility as…
Waters of Contention The Mikveh Project: Photographs by Janice Rubin, Text by Leah Lax For many modern Jewish women there is no more contentious image than the waters of the mikveh. The "ritual bath" is fraught with notions of uncleanliness, impurity and inferiority that traditional male…
New Paintings “When the Holy One, blessed is He, created the first man, He took him and led him around the trees of the Garden of Eden and said; ”Look at my works! See how beautiful they are–how excellent! For your sake I created them…
Lipchitz's Prayer No time of prayer is more intense than at Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur as we literally pray for our lives, our sustenance and ultimately, our salvation. Our fate hangs in the balance poised between the gates of mercy and the awesome judgment…
Torahluminations by Peter Asher Pitzele Whence an image? The awesome power of visual art unleashes meaning, complex and subtle. No wonder halacha warned us of its destructive power in false worship.  And yet we are driven to explore its permissible borders, wondering how to conceive…
Megillah Esther by David Wander Ahashverous and Memuchan, illumination and calligraphy by David Wander, Megillah Esther (2007) Such a nice story the Megillah Esther is, don’t you think?  The poor Jews are in exile far from home and get into a bit of trouble with God…
Archie Rand - Jewish Enough This is it. This is the one exhibition that you must see if contemporary Jewish Art matters at all. Archie Rand has been bravely creating radical Jewish art for at the last twenty years, challenging both the contemporary art establishment…

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