Issue 23
Winter 2024
ARTS & KVETCH: An Extra Festive Holiday Season
Happy December, everyone! With the first night of Hanukkah landing right on Christmas Day, and running through New Year’s Eve, it’s sure to be an extra festive holiday season. The last time this occurred was in 2005!
The Jewish Colony Forgotten by Time
As a heritage site, Edenbridge is unique because it’s rare to find historical pioneer colonies settled only by Jews. There are a few others in Canada, but none of them have such a well preserved historical synagogue, and in my opinion, none are situated in as beautiful a setting as Edenbridge, which makes it one of a kind.
Ve’ahavta Strives to Uplift Those Facing Homelessness
Ve’ahavta stood out as one of the rare spaces in the Jewish world that focuses on putting Judaism into tangible action.
At Each Other’s Throats: Adornment as Visible Identity
We are living in a period that calls on us, now more than ever, to try and reach across divides, a care that we must also extend to the parts of ourselves that feel like strangers, the outsider aspects we haven’t entirely let in.
Nobody Wants This: What the TV Series Got Right—and Very Wrong—Through the Eyes of an American Clergyperson
I watched the series with an open mind, hopeful these female characters would develop beyond their promo portrayals. No such luck.
Adam Wolfond and Estée Klar Go Outside the Lines
I want it to be emphasized that language is a way to produce meaning, and I make meaning also in the ways I move with the atmospheres and that paces of things are as important as words, and the body says more things.
Finding Hope in The Braid and Their New Home
The Braid will still keep its stories and shows travelling, but having an in-person home base means it can take even more chances on underserved voices and unique talents.
From The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall: A Leonard Cohen Tribute
Leonard Cohen’s vision: we are not at home, we are broken and we burn, points to the necessity of a fundamental act, the act he pursued his whole life, the great reparation, the mending of the heart, the mending of the world, the mending of God.
Two Paintings
My art seeks to reconnect modern Jews with their ancient, sometimes forgotten heritage. Bright and vivid creations reflect my passion, captivate the viewer, inspire the mind, and impart a sense of positive energy and hope.
How Not to Mourn Your Mother
. . . the act of sitting shiva isn’t simply intended to ease our pain at the passing of a loved one, but is instead meant to help us navigate a major transition by reframing our perspective on the world of the living, regardless of how difficult that might be.
Whimsical Menorahs
When I was able to find oversized wood dominoes with numbered dots one through eight, I knew that I wanted to create a unique folding Hanukkah menorah.
For My Father
Where is the candle I must light, is it here?