The work of Canadian artist Vida Simon has been presented in galleries, at performance festivals, and at other venues in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Italy, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Chile. Her installation/performance work combines forms, including drawing, writing, hand-made objects, sound, and gesture. She organizes projects for Souffles, an exhibition and performance space in Montreal.
The Israel Museum complex was designed to harmonize with its surroundings. Its low, flat-roofed buildings with facings of Jerusalem limestone were intended to resemble an Arab village on a hilltop…
The idea for a multicolored prayer shawl (tallit) came to Zalman Schachter-Shalomi when he was meditating on a midrash about God creating the world while wrapped in a robe of light. Schachter-Shalomi…
This linen coat with silk-thread embroidery was worn by a Jewish boy in Bukhara (today in Uzbekistan) on the occasion of his bar mitzvah celebration. Jewish economic life in Bukhara was closely tied…