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Photographing Biblical Women
Israeli photographer Dikla Laor reimagines the woman of the Hebrew Bible, from Queen Esther to Moses’ sister Miriam, through lush painterly images set against the breathtaking landscapes of the Golan Heights.

Israeli photographer Dikla Laor reimagines the woman of the Hebrew Bible through lush painterly photos set against the breathtaking landscapes of the Golan Heights.
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State of the Arts
High-profile festivals and public venues like the Mahaneh Yehudah market have made Jerusalem a go-to place for Jewish art-lovers.

High-profile festivals and public venues like the Mahaneh Yehudah market have made Jerusalem a go-to place for Jewish art-lovers.

When Los Angeles was incorporated as a city in 1850, there were eight Jews—all bachelors—on the population rolls, and in the ensuing 163 years their

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Guide to the Arts

Exhibits/ Music Festivals/ Film Festivals/Theater United States ARIZONA The Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix (480-951-0323; www.cbiaz.org/about/museum) The museum features a composite synagogue sanctuary from Djerba, Tunisia, with ornate floral-motif tiles

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The Arts: Israel’s American Canvas

by Elin Schoen Brockman

On a foggy Sunday in January, the hip boutiques, cafés and art galleries in New York’s Lower East Side teem with young locals who could

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Brief Reviews: Securing Israel, Taking New York

FILMS War of the Buttons It is 1944 in occupied France, and Jews are being dragged off by the French police. But for the young

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The Arts: Bezalel on the World Stage

by Ruth Eglash

Aniam Dery blushes fiercely when asked to explain the philosophy behind her recent art installation, The Tomb. A third-year fine-arts student at Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of

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Exhibit: Through Soviet Jewish Eyes

by Ray Katz

This collection of photographs, on display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, explores the work of Soviet Jewish photographers during

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Brief Reviews: Balancing Religion and Art

FILMS White Tiger Russia’s bid for the foreign-language Oscar starts as a World War II film (above) on the epic tank battles between the Red

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Arts and Society: A Talk with Eva Illouz

by Ruth Eglash

Professor Eva Illouz, who was born in Fez Morocco, raised and educated in France and later in Israel and the United States, is a professor