Symposium Issue on Inspiration and Opportunity: The Arts in Jewish Life
FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
- Introduction to This Issue from the Guest Editors, Eve Ben-Ora and Vicki Reikes Fox
GENESIS/B’REISHIT: A NEW VIEW
- A Gift to the Community: The Los Angeles Temple Isaiah’s Festival of Jewish Artisans, Marcia Reines Josephy and Meira Josephy
- Becoming a Modern Judaica Artist: A Stranger in a Strange Land No More, Gary Rosenthal
- Painting by Numbers: Reporting on the Emergence of Modern Jewish Art, Tal Gozani
- Visual Art as a Spiritual Practice, Miriam Terlinchamp
EXODUS/SH’MOT: ART AS A GUIDE TO WHERE WE ARE GOING
- A Nu Way Forward: Reaching Jewish Young Adults in Creative Ways, Anne Hromadka
- The New Authentics: Artists of a Post-Jewish Generation, Yael Rooks-Rapport
- Towards a Taxonomy of the “Cultural Jew”, Richard A. Siegel
- Choosing Art for the Jewish Chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Joel Schwartzman
LEVITICUS/VAYIKRA: ARTISTS’ VOICES
- Art and Prayer, Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik
- Engaging Community, Mark Hurvitz
- Collaboration and Participation, Flora Rosefsky
- Transformative Experience, Peretz Wolf-Prusan, Lisa Sloane
- Spiritual Journey, Yehudis Barmatz-Harris
- The Passion of a Rabbi and Artist, Josh Plaut
- An Artists’ Beit Midrash
- Words of Introduction, Leon A Morris
- The Artists’ Words
- Barbara Freedman
- Susan Kaplow
- Larry Frankel
- Rachel Kanter
- Bezalel’s Legacy, Richard McBee
NUMBERS/B’MIDBAR: CHALLENGE AND PERSPECTIVE
- Text and Commentary: Contemporary Jewish Art, Ori Z. Soltes
- Jew as (German) Product: Rubber Ducks and Other Commodifi cations of Jewish Identity, Michal S. Friedlander
- The Presence of What Is Absent: Art as Inquiry into Jewish Text, Adina Allen and Pat Allen
- Visual Midrash: The Role of Art and Artists in Our Seminaries, Jean Abarbanel and Anne Hromadka
- Jewish Art and Artists in the Seminary Setting, Jean Bloch Rosensaft and Laura Kruger
- Faith in Irony: Judaica Today, Daniel Belasco
DEUTERONOMY/D’VARIM: MOVING FORWARD CREATIVELY
- On the Path to Jewish Universalism: Art and Literature in Modern Hebrew Culture, William Cutter
- Mishkan and Sukkah: Toward Jewish Sacred Space, Amy Reichert
- Daring to Alter a Perfect Twentieth-Century Sanctuary to Meet the Needs of the Twenty-First Century, Roy A. Walter and Garey F. Marks
- Transforming a Congregation through the Arts, Cheri Ellowitz
- Faith in Art: Visual Culture and the Future of Judaism, Lance J. Sussman
POETRY
- I Was at Sinai, Rick Lupert
- Exercises in Uncertainty that Resolve in Embrace, James Stone Goodman
- The Story of a Ring, Navah-Tehila
BOOK REVEWS
- Blood, Resurrection, and New Paradigms in Dialogue—A Review Essay
- Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews, Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson
- Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians, David Biale. Reviewed by Daniel F. Polish
- I Have a Story to Tell You. Edited by Seemah C. Benson. Reviewed by Susan Jacobson
