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As part of Open City, an outdoor performance festival in Lublin, Poland, the artist Ronen Eidelman collected photographs of Lublin Jews dating between 1920 and 1940. He “returned” the people to their native city–making life-sized reproductions of the pictures, and pasting them  on the walls of boarded-up houses, doorways, and other public spaces. “Coming Out in Lublin, Poland” […]

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Rabbi Judah ibn Tibbon offered the following advice: “Make books your companions; let bookcases and shelves be your pleasure gardens and orchards.” He said this in 13th century Provence, but this adage has been taken to heart for ages. Jews love books. The new blog BookshelfPorn shares our obsession. The site hosts hundreds of photos of lavish, unusual, and gravity-defying […]

Indeed, they do. And beginning next week, a photo exhibit in California will prove it.  The exhibit, at the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, features photos by some of the expected Jewish rock giants — Dylan, Gene Simmons, the Ramones. And even a few I didn’t know were Jewish, or half-Jewish, like Mark Knopfler […]

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