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Visual Moment | KEY to 50 Years, 50 Noted American Jews in the Arts

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July 29, 2025

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Jewish Museum (Jüdisches Museum) Berlin, Germany; designed by Daniel Liebeskind A Passover Haggadah; drawings by Leonard Baskin Wrap dress; designed by Diane von Furstenberg ...

22 Apr

Arts, Israel, Latest

The Grace of Photographer Osnat Ben Dov’s “Shadow of a Passing Bird”

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Frances Brent

May 2, 2024

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"I think for most of us, we’re looking for stability or safety. But life isn’t stable and a surprise is always coming. That’s what makes life, the movement of things."

Duckworth's Clouds over Lake Michigan mural with three close up images below

19 Jan

Culture, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Latest

Duckworth: Life as a Unity

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Frances Brent

February 8, 2024

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Meteorology was the first science we studied when I was in middle school in the Chicago area during the early 1960s and I was mesmerized...

08 Dec

Arts, Cover Story, Latest

‘Deeply Rooted’—Pursuing Reproductive Justice Through Art

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Judy Bolton-Fasman

December 11, 2023

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“I’ve integrated prayer into these amulets and made them to resemble a pill box, evoking birth control,” says Charlie Schrön. The multimedia exhibition of work by 21 female artists is a powerful rejoinder to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last spring.

29 Aug

Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Jewish World, Latest

Can Jewish Artists Transcend Germany’s Past?

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Doris H. Gray and Donna Swarthout

August 29, 2023

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Some Jewish artists are unwilling to be confined to what artist Rachel Libeskind calls the “claustrophobic limbo” of Germany’s past.

09 Jan

2018 January/February, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review | Eternal Life by Dara Horn

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Frances Brent

August 14, 2019

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Dara Horn’s new novel, Eternal Life, imagines two characters who have made a sacred pact that consigns them to lives that will never end. Tethered to wearying and repetitive perpetuity, they cannot encounter the crossover from purpose to purposelessness that my mother-in-law experienced.

Culture, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Latest, Religion

People of the Book: Not Asking or Telling

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Sala Levin

November 4, 2012

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Times are hard for those who want to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. "Major setback for 'don't ask' repeal," blared a headline last week...