Journal
The conversation around Jewish art has expanded far beyond galleries and museums. Digital platforms now shape how artists present their work, how communities…
A Jewish wedding brings together ritual, material culture, music, movement, and memory. The chuppah creates a temporary sacred space, while the ketubah records…
The conference workshop on Jewish storytelling examined how personal memory, inherited tradition, and artistic form shape the ways Jewish life is represented.…
The hamsa is one of the most recognizable protective symbols in Jewish visual culture. Shaped like an open hand, it appears in jewelry, amulets, wall hangings,…
Photography gives artists a language for examining Jewish identity as something lived, inherited, performed, and continually reinterpreted. A portrait can hold…
The evening concert at Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture extended the conference’s conversations beyond lectures and gallery spaces. Through live…
Jewish street art brings cultural memory into places where people live, work, gather, and pass each other every day. Murals, graffiti, wheat-pasted posters,…
The children’s art workshop at Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture brought the conference’s central questions into a welcoming, hands-on setting. While…
A Jewish ritual object can be beautiful, useful, and deeply personal. It may mark the beginning of Shabbat, hold a blessing, frame a sacred text, or give shape…
Jewish women have helped shape modern art as painters, photographers, designers, dancers, writers, collectors, patrons, and cultural organizers. Their…