Journal

At the “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, Jewish folk music became a living conversation between sound, movement,…

For generations, the ceramic Seder plate has occupied a quiet but meaningful place at the centre of the Passover table. In recent years, a wave of Jewish…

The Practicing Jews conference, held across several venues in Madison, Wisconsin, gathered academics, practicing artists, and community members for a week of…

The week-long gathering "Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture" transformed Madison into a sprawling gallery, with works spilling out of lecture halls…

In the heart of Wisconsin, the "Practicing Jews" conference opened its week of talks with a keynote that pushed past familiar categories of Jewish art and…

The Tree of Life stands as one of the most enduring emblems in Jewish visual culture, its branches stretching from ancient parchment into contemporary…

In the heart of Wisconsin's capital, a conference usually devoted to Jewish art and diasporic memory opened its doors to a very different tradition. For one…

The Jewish calendar has never been a neutral instrument. Long before sunrise notifications and countdown widgets, communities calculated months through…

The workshop on reverse glass painting offered a quiet, focused counterpoint to the louder keynote sessions in Madison. Participants gathered around long…

Portraiture has always done more than record a face. In Jewish visual culture, an image can carry family memory, religious practice, migration history, gender…