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another year, another omer by Jacqueline Nicholls
International Jewish Art Salon Session at Skirball Center
Monday March 12, 2012, 7:30 - 9PM
Skirball Center of Adult Jewish Learning.
The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El, NYC, in collaboration with the Jewish Art Salon is pleased to host an International Artists Session with Jacqueline Nicholls (Great Britain) and Ken Goldman (Israel). Moderated by Tobi Kahn.
7:30 - 8:30PM The artists will show and discuss their work and answer questions. Session starts at 7:30 sharp, March 12th.
8:30 - 9:00PM Meet & greet.
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Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art - Ein Harod Museum
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| Helene Aylon |
Curators: Dvora Liss and David Sperber
This will be the first time in Israel that a museum has organized a major exhibition of Jewish feminist art by women who come from a traditional Jewish background.
Jewish Feminist art shares its themes with feminist art in general. Usually these are familiar subjects, such as power and oppression, body image, women as periphery, object-subject, blood and menstruation, and so on. Feminist Jewish works deal with subjects unique to the Jewish experience: niddah and immersion, hair covering, halakhic questions such as the problem of the agunah or halakhic infertility, women's prayer, and women in the study hall.
The Mourning Kittel: When Grief Consumes All
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By Jacqueline Nicholls
In Genesis, when Jacob sees Joseph’s coat covered in blood, and thinks that his precious son is dead, he tears his clothes and begins to mourn. The act of tearing, keriah, is encoded in Jewish law as part of the ritual of mourning —whether expressing personal grief for a loved one or a national grief for the people’s destruction.
The act of tearing, of destroying clothes, is a visceral action full of rage and violence, physically expressing some of the many strong emotions one feels when one is bereaved. I also see it as making a symbolic break in personal identity. As a mourner, you are no longer the person you were. Something has shifted, something has ruptured in your life, and the experience of loss and grief can have a profound effect on identity. And so your clothing, that which represents your old self, is destroyed.
Jacqueline Nicholls' Torah Cover for Storahtelling
The act of putting on the sefer torah cover is called ʻdressing the Torah,ʼ and so it follows that to remove it is an act of undressing and revealing.
This sefer torah cover for Storahtelling builds on ʻThe ʻMaternal Torah – Torat Imechaʼ that combine elements of a traditional sefer torah cover, with a womanʼs corset. Torah is often described in traditional learning circles as a feminine object. The Torah is held, kissed, even symbolically married to. The corset seems to be a perfect metaphor for Torah, it gives shape, support, and constrains.
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