Visual Arts
Three Russian-born Jewish geniuses
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN About the only good thing to be said for Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement under...
Meet the Jews of Art-A-Whirl
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Jewish participation continues to be strong this year in Art-A-Whirl, the annual art crawl hosted by the...
2019 Keren Or winners in poetry, prose and photography
Keren Or (Ray of Light) is a creative arts contest for Minnesota's Jewish teens. The contest, now in its 15th...
Or Emet will host artist Susan Armington
"Geography of Home," by Susan Armington, is a 6-foot by 9-foot map painting of the Twin Cities made out of...
The tracks we leave
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Has anyone close to you ever died? How did you react? Relief? Pain? Gratitude? Do you remember...
Earliest surviving photographs of Jerusalem live on
by KAREN CHERNICK (JTA) — When French architectural historian Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey left Paris in 1842, his luggage weighed...
Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art
by ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL (JTA) — Amos Oz would often speak in the kind of tossed-off epigrams that come only with...
MMAA finds new home in St. Paul’s Lowertown
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Like the wandering remnants of the Kingdom of Judah who finally found a home in Eretz Yisrael,...
Exhibit tells St. Paul JCC History
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN It started back in the mists of time — at least by Minnesota history standards. JHSUM Annual...
Jônatas Chimen: A hidden heritage
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Brazilian-born artist Jônatas Chimen has a lot of story to tell, and that story...
