by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Book of Exodus relates that when the Israelites arrived at Mt. Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments the mountain was all in smoke and trembled violently. Thunder and lightening crashed all around. At that moment a covenant was made between God and the Jewish...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
“When I go to the Israelites and tell them that You have appeared to me,” said Moses to God at the Burning Bush, “Whom shall I tell them has sent me?” God then replied to Moses, telling him the name by which He was to be called:...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence – these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955) The...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Describing the Jewish world of his era as “Moishe kapoyer” (topsy-turvy), Marc Chagall made decorations for the Yiddish theater in which images were upside down. This idea inspired my piece. A drawn and silk-screened representation of rabbis and Hebrew...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Though I began this piece before his tragic assassination in 1995, “Homeland” has taken on the quality of a memorial to Yitzhak Rabin, the late Prime Minister of Israel. The upper windows and the predominant square shape of this piece suggests a home,...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Masada is the ancient ruins of a fort located on the top of a rugged and isolated table-mountain at the southern-most edge of the Dead Sea. After the Legions of Rome destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE the “Great Revolt of the Jewish People” ended, except...
