“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 ...
About 30 years ago, I was invited to participate in an interfaith Thanksgiving service at the main Catholic church in Binghamton, New York. I thought it would be a good idea to bring my two older ...
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, ...
It’s not easy getting teens to think about God. Even if they go to Jewish day school. When one Jewish educational organization asked day school students in middle school and high school several years ...
(JTA) — Mordechai Rosenstein, a painter and calligrapher whose brightly colored illuminations of Hebrew texts adorn countless Jewish homes, offices and synagogues, died on July 9 in Elkins Park, ...
This audacious exploration of the Jewish concept of God squarely faces many contradictions and conundrums. Gillman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at Jewish Theological Seminary, won the National ...
“So, Rabbi, in your more than forty years in the rabbinate, what are those things that surprised you – those things that you never expected, or that you once expected that didn’t actually come to pass ...