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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?

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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.

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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.

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