More images as Israel-Gaza fighting continues
JewishJournal.com
November 19, 2012
Images continue to come in from Israel-Gaza conflict. Photos by Reuters
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Holy Moses — The Getty’s latest collection puts a Christian perspective on the leader, lawgiver and
Tom L. Freudenheim
September 14, 2006
The Getty Center\’s upcoming exhibition \”Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai\” (Nov. 14-March 4) provides a great opportunity to ponder these religious confluences, while also coming almost face-to-face with some of the earliest, and most beautiful, images in Christian art.
Three Museum Shows Span Gamut of Arts
Ed Rampell
December 8, 2005
Architecture is for the photographer Julius Shulman what green peppers and sand dunes were for Edward Weston or Yosemite for Ansel Adams. Born in 1910, Shulman\’s iconic images have become a staple of every book or magazine that touches on the subject of modern architecture.
Teen Called ‘Amiga de Cuba’
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July 1, 2004
Since traveling to Cuba several times with her mother, who organizes relief missions for Cuban Jews through her travel agency, Daniella Gruber has returned home changed by the experience.
Catharsis Found in Haggadah Artwork
Gaby Wenig
April 1, 2004
While Israeli artist Avner Moriah was creating \”Haggadat Moriah\” (Moriah Haggadah), his wife, Andy, was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for leukemia.
\”I sat next to her when the chemicals were dripping in,\” said the 50-year-old artist, in Los Angeles this week for an exhibit opening of his work at the University of Judaism. \”In Israel everyone davens and says \’Tehillim\’ when someone is sick, but I came up with images for the haggadah. When I started, the images were really small but as she got healthier, they became more colorful and more lively. When I finished [and Andy recovered] I realized that I had painted my own journey from Egypt.\”
Painter With a Camera
Leora Alhadeff
October 30, 2003
Robert Sturman said he never felt the need to observe Jewish rituals.
Diaspora: A Photographer’s Quest
Gaby Wenig
October 16, 2003
\”My work was driven by a sense of imminent loss,\” writes Frédéric Brenner in the introduction to his new book, \”Diaspora: Homelands in Exile.\” \”Two thousand years of history were about to vanish. I felt a desire and a responsibility to document these permutations of survival in exile before they disappeared…. As I began my journey, I realized how much loss had already taken place.\”
Diaspora Diversity Focus of ‘Portraits’
Diane Arieff
July 17, 2003
An Argentine gaucho lounges near his horse. A Bombay bride displays her upturned palms, filigreed entirely with henna. An Ethiopian boy lights candles with a classmate. A woman poses stiffly in her kitchen in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. What unites these disparate images is that the people depicted in them are Jews, all of them captured in black and white by Israeli-born photojournalist Zion Ozeri.
Carlyle Discusses Dangers of ‘Hitler’
Tom Tugend
May 15, 2003
Robert Carlyle, of \”The Full Monty\” and \”Angela\’s Ashes\” fame, gives a striking performance in the title role of the CBS miniseries \”Hitler: The Rise of Evil.\”
Healing the ‘wounds’
Rachel Brand
April 17, 2003
When rabbi and author Jan Goldstein was suddenly faced with the news that his 12-year marriage was ending — leaving him with primary custody of his three children — he felt his life was ruined, until he learned to make sense of his pain.
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