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“Make for Yourself an Ark of Gopher Wood” Filmmaker Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ Film Develops

17, Jul 2012

By Saul Sudin Darren Aronofsky’s dreams are finally coming true. As he tweeted recently, production is underway on his film adaptation of the Torah’s story of Noach, a project he has ambitiously hoped to make since his Bar Mitzvah. The filmmaker behind Pi, The Fountain, and the Academy Award-winning Black Swan is taking a radical […]

Frum Female Underground Films

4, Jun 2012

A spate of Orthodox women are turning to filmmaking (some restrictions apply) By Sara Trapper Spielman for TabletMag | May 30, 2012 7:00 AM From the trailer of Lara Gedzelman’s film The Chairlady. (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original stills via Vimeo.) One afternoon this past winter, I waited at a café in Boro Park for Yuta Silverman, an ambitious young […]

Interview with David Asher Brook on Rubicon Drive

6, May 2012

By Rivka Nehorai An exclusive interview with the man behind the motion following the success of his latest exhibtion, Rubicon Drive. JAN:Tell me about your latest exhibition; what was the theme behind your work in this show? DAB: The exhibition was called Rubicon Drive. A rubicon is a point at which you’ve gone too far and […]

Gather the Broken Omer Blog

8, Apr 2012

COUNTING THE OMER. fifty days, fifty fragments: one a day, one solid journey. to gather 1 – to assemble, collate, collect, draw together 2 – to understand, infer 3 – to summon up (a mental or physical attribute such as one’s thoughts or strength) broken hearts, broken dreams, broken promises. the bits and pieces that […]

Why Is This Haggadah Different from All Other Haggadot?

2, Apr 2012

By Ellen Shapiro for PrintMag “If I touch the letters, I think and I hope that people will be touched by them.” So said Israeli graphic and type designer Oded Ezer yesterday in a 1.5 hour Skype interview with me about The New American Haggadah, published this month by Little, Brown and Company. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of haggadot  — books containing […]

Archie Granot’s Contemporary Papercut Haggadah

26, Mar 2012

In the tradition of innovative contemporary Jewish papercut arts, comes “The Papercut Haggadah” by Archie Granot. Commissioned by Sandra and Max Thurm, Archie Granot’s Papercut Haggadah was handcrafted using the Jewish folk art tradition of papercutting. The result is a series of 55 pages that employ intricate geometric and abstract shapes and calligraphic text to create an […]

Money & Marbles, Dov Abramson’s ‘Open Up’

21, Mar 2012

Open Up (‘Patoach Tiftach’) 194 glass boxes, 10x10x10cm each, 7147 marbles “כי ×™×”×™×” בך אביון… פתוח תפתח את ידך לו והעבט תעביטנו די מחסורו אשר יחסר לו” “When any of your brothers is poor… open up your hand generously, and extend to him any credit he needs to take care of his wants.”  (Deuteronomy 15:7-8) “Open Up (‘Patoach […]

Shaping History

21, Mar 2012

Painter Ward Shelley plays with the history of Judaism in ‘The People of the Book,’ a series of giant, whimsical flowcharts that tell a story By Robin Cembalest for Tablet “Now Shelley has taken on a subject that could be just as polemical, depending on the context. The People of the Bookwas inspired, the artist says, by […]

Jewish Art Study Tour in Israel

2, Mar 2012

Israeli and Jewish Art – Study Tour Galilee International Management Institute, Israel July 23rd-30th, 2012

Jewish Art Now at ATARA Conference

2, Feb 2012

Jewish Art Now will presenting a pop-up shop during the ATARA Conference 2012 (Arts & Torah Organization for Religious Artists) Saturday February 11, 8pm Coffee House at the Jewish Music Cafe 401 9th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 (F to 7th Ave, R to 9th St) http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com/ Line-up of bands and solo performers with MC Elana Greenspan […]


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