The work of American photographer Albert J. Winn was primarily autobiographical and addresses issues of gender and religious, ethnic, and sexual identity. In 1993 he received a National Endowment for the Arts/Western States Arts Federation Fellowship for his collection of photographs and stories, My Life Until, dealing with his life as a gay Jewish man living with AIDS. Winn’s photographs can be found in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress; the Jewish Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Light Work (Syracuse University); and the Visual AIDS Archive, New York City. He lives in Los Angeles.
Torah finials are a pair of ornaments used to decorate the upper ends of the rollers on which the Torah scroll is wound. The Hebrew term rimonim, which means “pomegranates,” references the…
Child sacrifice in relief, Pozo Moro, Spain, ca. 500 BCE. The relief shows a two-headed monster receiving offerings in bowls. One bowl holds a child. Because the site shows Phoenician influence, the…
If a visitor to Berditchev wishes to hear a typical Jewish melody, let him listen to Reb Nisson Belzer’s protégé. If it is Berditchever Chassidic song he desires, he should go to the Karliner shtibel…