Join the Workers Circle for a conversation on original Yiddish art with Mikhl Yashinsky, a bold new Yiddish playwright and actor. Also a co-writer of the Yiddish textbook In eynem, Yashinsky teaches Yiddish for the Workers Circle and at Columbia, and created our video series #YiddishAlive. Yashinsky's controversial drama Di psure loyt khaim (The Gospel According to Chaim), recently put on by New Yiddish Rep, was noted as the first new full-length, entirely original Yiddish play that had been professionally produced in America for a number of decades, and was hailed by the Forward for having "jolted the repertoire with a work that is both traditional and delightfully submissive." Yashinsky will discuss this latest piece and present excerpts from it...
In English with excerpts of work in Yiddish, given alongside translation.
Jewish Culture for a Just World
Sun Mar 31, 2024
1:00-2:00 PM
An intimate community of learning led by Rabbanit Dalia Davis
The last few months have been so hard! We have all been carrying so much, and in need of community more than ever. I know that the most meaningful and uplifting moments recently have been times that I have been able to truly connect with others. Many women have shared with me that these months they have experienced heightened feelings of loneliness and isolation, and I know exactly what they mean. Ye’ud offers us an opportunity to be together, in a small and intimate group setting, and to carry each other through.
A Cooper Union art student’s paintings recall her Israeli family’s roots in a community shattered on Oct. 7 By Julia Gergely March 11, 2024
"...“In the art world, in recent years, there’s been a lot of focus on figurative art... This is probably the most popular form of art on the market right now — art about gender or race or ethnicity or sexuality,” Arad said. “So it’s very interesting to me that in this environment, there’s suddenly now a push towards discrediting and diminishing [Israeli and Jewish] identity.”
“The reason I’m doing this is to create work in this format that’s accepted — making work about one’s identity, but about an identity that is hated, and sometimes not even hated — sometimes just people refuse to acknowledge it exists,” she added. “In a way, every painting is just proof — you can’t say [Israeli identity] does not exist, because every painting says ‘here I am.’”
This is a tiny silver Shema Yisroel necklace pendant, perhaps the smallest ever made. It was handcrafted by jewelry artist Ely Greenhut. #JewishArt#Shema
I've been working on some graphics for new shadow box manifesting sets, in the theme of love, of course, since valentines day is approaching. Here's what I have so far...
These graphics will be printed on paperboard and glued into the shadow box, similar to the Fortune test design. These will also come with a plaster LOVERS tarot.
If you want some awesome paintings, prints, or jewelry, the last day I'll be accepting orders is 30 OCTOBER. After that, I'll be shutting down my Etsy shop, as their recent changes have made the platform increasingly difficult to use.
Use code MOVINGSALE for 30% off, and please share!!!
You can build a sukkah in all kinds of ways and all kinds of places! Here are some on balconies of an apartment building in Israel. A sukkah just drove past me on the back of a truck! What does your sukkah look like and what are some unusual styles or places you have seen them?
This poem is another lament that in the patriarchal worldview, women aren't people, they're property - and so are children. The sotah's unborn child is killed. God forbids a cuckold.
The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you.
I am pleased with this first one. I don't know why I chose this background image in particular. I printed out several and this one just wanted to go first, lol.
I'm on the lookout for cool out of copyright background images. I am also cropping and editing some of the old womble AI stuff.
This poem is a lament that in the patriarchal worldview, where women aren't people, they're property. In the texts women are mentioned only in passing, yet doing many ritual things.
The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you.
This week's parashat is a double portion - Bahar & Bechukotai.
These poems are about our obligation to be stewards of the earth, to protect her from degradation. If we treat her well, she'll do likewise.
The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.
This week's parashat is a double portion - Bahar & Bechukotai.
These poems are about our obligation to be stewards of the earth, to protect her from degredation. If we treat her well, she'll do likewise.
The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.
The same evil men justifying their hate and violence are here.
The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.
This weekend I finished up my next test design - Lady Wisdom! Strategy is her forte, and numerous arts & crafts. She was present at creation, says Psalms, and is traditionally depicted with an owl & the spear of truth.
This cast went pretty well. I do want to find some small real metal tubes for the spear.
This week's parashat is a double portion, Acharei Mot and Kedoshim.
The poems for my upcoming Jewish Wheel of the Year Journal are about finding freedom in exile and about rejecting hateful and evil laws.
The journal will have blank pages for taking notes, sketches, or just musing about what the Torah or Haftarah readings for each Parashat and Yom Tovim mean to you personally.
This is probably the last major project I'll do before Pesach - it's one of the Sphere of Protection altar cloths, featuring a horse design backing fabric and amber edging.
I have enough of the horse fabric on hand to make one more like this one.
Did you know online petitions are pretty much ignored by your legislators? If you want your voice to be heard, do it the old fashioned way - with a set of 24 Leitzanit postcards. Give your legislators a piece of your mind and at least try and be polite! ;) A whimsical postcard holder is included.
It's been a while since I posted any woodcraft designs, so today I thought I would show another of the big box wood "gift bag" crafts, which are reusable. I will probably need to add one more bit of detailing to the green side.
Big box store items are challenging to work with. I'd love to find a woodworker!