Partner Links: Learn Hebrew • Travel to Israel • Live Kotel Camera • Israel Pharmacy • Cellphone Rentals in Israel • Israel Relief Campaign

Monday, May 6, 2013
Iyyar 26, 5773
10:26 pm IDT
Site updated 1 minute ago

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Ops & Blogs

Fern Allen

Follow @kolhaot

Dvar Omanut – Musings on Jewish Art – by Fern Allen is a regular feature of the Kol HaOt organization (www… [More]
Fern's website

December 12, 2012
5:45 pm

Modern sounds of Hanukka find a home on YouTube

These days, if you want to hear who is spreading the Hanukkah message to the masses, first light your menorah, and then click on YouTube. The Hanukka season seems......

November 8, 2012
5:11 am

Papercuts pay homage to synagogues torched in WWII

David Fisher’s papercut reproductions of wooden synagogues burned down by the Nazis during the Holocaust provide only a shimmer of the structures’ once-breathtaking magnificence. But for the Jerusalem graphic artist,......

1

May 23, 2012
1:57 pm

Stitching the Torah’s precepts together

For artist Andi Arnovitz, sewing always had been an integral part of her upbringing. So it was natural for her to take essential principles of the Torah, such as......

April 2, 2012
4:35 pm

Dvar Omanut: All who are hungry, come and eat – When art imitates life

It’s one of Judaism’s best-known slogans, with its perennial cry for social justice and redemption: the haggadah’s HaLachma Anya passage – “This is the bread of affliction our fathers......

March 5, 2012
2:20 pm

Dvar Omanut: Redrawing a Tale of Two Diasporas

Flip through artist Eliyahu Sidi’s Scroll of Esther, and you’ll soon realize that you are absorbing two stories in one – the text of the ancient Purim plot detailing......