What do y’all think of this? Is this legislation that could pass in the US?

An interesting article about the evolution of the single woman on TV. Fits well with our upcoming screening of the documentary Miss Representation on April 11 At the Purchase College Performing Arts Center. https://www.facebook.com/events/160172624101881/

This is a great new publication. If you’re looking to host a radical sedar this year, check this out! Even if you like to stay more traditional, think about adding a small portion of this to your sedar to better appreciate the Jewish women at the table!

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FROM ‘SILK STONES’, THE VILLAGE BY ROCHELLE RUBINSTEIN

Patrick McGoohan eat your heart out! This detail from The Village, one of the hit pieces in YUM’s newest exhibition, Silk Stones - Works by Rochelle Rubinstein.  The work features a village that was inspired by Shirpa Village… but in this case the village floats on top of half-visible images from the Book of Kells.  See that mother and child? This village is a kind of homage to Rubinstein’s father’s village in Hungary, Szent Istvan. 

Ok, so you might not find a Rover in this village, but you will find a quiet meditation on the contrasts between the sublime environments and coziness, and the claustrophobia and oppressive nature of of village life.

Check out more images from the exhibition on the Silk Stones show page, or visit the works in person!

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SILK STONES - WORKS BY ROCHELLE RUBINSTEIN

Opening Reception, Sunday March 11, 2-4 pm @ YUMuseum

Like a Baroque sculptor, Rochelle Rubinstein uses materials in ways that delight and deceive the eye. By masking, undermining and transforming the ostensible physical character of objects, she creates surprising visual effects that emphasize the artist’s hand and process. Rubinstein uses multiple techniques – printing and painting, carving and piercing, overlapping and erasing – and re-works individual pieces, often returning to them after a period of months or years.

 

The subjects in her work are similarly multilayered – and re-interpreted. She blends biblical narratives and culture legends with her own personal stories to create abstract yet recognizable images of family, community and history.  

 

Rochelle Rubinstein is a painter, printmaker, and fabric and book artist. Active in art education in Toronto, where her studio is based, she graduated from Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University as the school’s first Art major.

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GET READY TO MAKE SOME NOSIE!

Purim is right around the corner so it’s time to dig up your graggers and costumes! This whimsical noisemaker will make even the most coulorophobic get in the Purim spirit.

Purim Noisemaker. Agayof, Avner, ca 2007 aluminum, Yeshiva University Museum

“If it Please the King: Esther, Vashti, and Women’s Leadership”
Student Rabbi Nicole Lyn DeBlosi, PhD, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
DeBlosi holds a BA in Women’s Studies from Harvard University (1999) and a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University (2010). She will be ordained as a rabbi in the Reform movment in 2013.

A bus will be leaving from Purchase to take you to this event! Contact us if you’d like to come!

The event page is up for what we hope to be our biggest event of the year! Miss Representation explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence. It challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself. 

We have an event coming up! If you’re near Purchase college come check it out this thursday. If you are at Pace, Manhattanville or SLC there is transportation available! Contact us for more information!

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EMERGING OVERWHELMING BEAUTY - The Golden City/Upper Galilee

Hiking in a valley just bellow Tzfat, the sunlight shimmers the small, mystical city.  Quietude underscores sublimity, broken by stream trickles, bird flutters, and trees rustling in the mountain breeze. Then again, you’d be hard-pressed to find any camels in that part of Israel these days…

Thanks as always 16thstreet!

From the partners’ collections: The Golden City/Upper Galilee

Description: Landscape. Camels lower left, yellow buildings top center, surrounded by green; inscribed reverse: “Ruth Bamberger with Love for Kathrin”
Artist: Bamberger, Ruth, 1906-1976
Medium: Painting, oil on canvas
Date: 1969
Persistent URL:digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=413013
Repository: The Kathryn Yochelson Collection Yeshiva University Museum
Accession number: 2001.396
Rights statement:Click here.

Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.

A beautiful painting done by a Jewish Woman!

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TIME TO HIT THE BOOKS-BACK TO SCHOOL!

The first days of school are always filled with great expectations. This year will bring knowledge and inevitably lots of homework. Be prepared this year and achieve your best GPA yet. Just look how studious these girls are in their Brooklyn classroom in 1934.

Slide. Girls Learning in a Classroom. Yeshiva University Museum (2009.555) Gift of Av Rivel