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New Exhibit on S. Broad St. of Paintings Inspired by Jewish Texts
Nancy Griffin
KYW Newsradio 1060 Philadelphia, 6 Sept. 2009
A group of local artists is using Jewish sacred texts -- including the Torah and the Talmud -- as inspiration, and their work is highlighted in a new exhibit at the Gershman Y on South Broad Street.
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To Know the Unknowable
Mordechai Ben-dat
The Canadian Jewish News, 11 Sept. 2008
To know the unknowable has been a human yearning since men and women first looked upon the starry canopy of the nighttime heavens.
What do our lives mean?
What was our beginning?
What will be our end?
A Confrontation Between Image and Text
Menachem Wecker
The Jewish Press, 23 Jul. 2008
What do you get when you mix a Jesuit publishing company, a Reform Jewish scholar, an Orthodox Jewish painter, and a thesis on human-divine encounters?
In Panim el Panim: Facing Genesis, Visual Midrash, the product is a surprisingly coherent collaboration of image and text, which not only examines the book of Genesis, but also seeks to uncover real-world lessons and advice from the biblical passages that are accessible to all sorts of readers.
Jewish art graces Loyola Marymount University
Celia Soudry
Jewish Journal, 3 Apr. 2008
Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a Jesuit school, will be the surprising venue for an exhibition of Midrash-inspired paintings this weekend.
The show opens Saturday evening as the pre-conference event of the Western Jewish Studies Association's 14th Annual Conference, which takes place Saturday through Monday at the LAX-adjacent LMU campus.