The work of American artist Adam Rolston has appeared in solo and group exhibitions, including Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities (The Jewish Museum, 1996). His artwork often explores gay and Jewish identities. He is the coauthor, with Douglas Crimp, of AIDS Demo Graphics (1990).
Some time ago, as I sat down to work in a Tel Aviv café in the area where I live, an elderly man suddenly approached me. “You are the son of Eliahu Shaharabani, of blessed memory,” he said, half…
This fringe from Kuntillet Ajrud, knotted from undyed linen threads, could be the fringe (tzitzit) that Israelites are commanded to wear on the corners of their garments, as indicated in Numbers 15:37…
I have noticed the change of the word “Oriental” to “Sephardi” in the masthead of the latest issue of the journal [La Amerika], “Organ of the Judeo-Sephardi (and no longer Oriental) Colony of America…