Journal
Across centuries and continents, the image of the lion has prowled through Jewish sacred art, appearing on Torah arks, carved benches, embroidered parochet…
Hair is often treated as a private matter, yet it can carry religious practice, family memory, gender expectations and public identity. In Jewish communities,…
The week-long “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, brought academics, artists, and community members into the same…
When scholars and artists gathered at the conference in Madison, one quietly ambitious project sat alongside the keynote lectures and panel discussions: a…
In the Madison conference centre auditorium, scholars, painters, and curious onlookers gathered for a talk bridging centuries of esoteric tradition with the…
The week-long “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, brought academics, artists, and community members into the same…
Jewish papercutting turns an ordinary sheet of paper into a field of symbols, names and stories. With a blade, patience and a strong sense of pattern, artists…
The Haggadah is one of Judaism’s most familiar books, read during the Passover seder to retell the Exodus story. Yet it is never a fixed object. Across…
The conference session on Jewish street art and graffiti examined how public visual culture can carry memory, argument, humour, belonging, and protest. Rather…
The “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, approaches Jewish visual culture as something lived through bodies,…