Be kind! Do a mitzvah!

Glass Half Full. Egg tempera and gold and palladium leaf on cradled panel by Judith Joseph, 2015. Judith grew up an artist, enchanted by illuminated manuscripts and the spirituality of the human body. she taught herself Hebrew calligraphy and began writing, illustrating, and selling ketubot while she was in college. her love of storytelling animates her art, in which she hopes her audience can find their own stories being told.

The last photo of mine of the former site of Dublin Hebrew Congregation, Terenure, Dublin, Ireland. This site was sold to developers and the synagogue is being demolished, and in its place housing is being built. This picture was taken on Fujicolor 200 35mm film using a Nikon F80 SLR and Nikkor 50mm f1.4G lens, and developed using Arista C-41 chemistry.

Photo courtesy of Touro Synagogue.

fish-form besamim (Havdalah spice container) made in Vienna, Austria circa 1813. from the collection of the metropolitan museum of art

German

God by Langston Hughes

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

For the first sixteen years of my life, I was taught to stay away from everything unholy, all the deepest, darkest profanities of the world, the "other side." Sitra Achra is the term used to describe all the things on the "other side" of holiness, like queers, and women who don't fit traditional definitions of femininity, women who go to college and want to have babies outside of marriage and without husbands. Sitra Achra is me. Now, as I sit on the other side, I try and find a way to see the two sides of myself together, to create a conversation between tradition and heresy.

Self-Portrait Beheading. acrylic on canvas by Rosabel Rosalind, 2020. Rosalind's collections of paintings draw on different wells of inspiration and reference different subjects, but what they all have in common is a startling vividity. this painting in particular depicts Judith, who slew Holofernes.

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1739, handwritten in ink on parchment

Late 19th-early 20th century

Having published an Ashkenazic-rite siddur in 1532-1533, Passover Haggadah in 1534, and mahzor in 1536, Hayyim Shahor went on, shortly thereafter, to produce the present seder selihot (collection of penitential prayers), comprising the liturgy recited during the period of the Days of Awe and on each public fast day (other than Tish’ah be-Av).