The New Yorker (New York, NY, USA)

On Wednesday, July 29, over 700 people attended the members’ opening at The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM) for Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait and the companion exhibition, You Know I’m No Good which are on view through November 1, 2015

Jugend magazine cover (Issue 47) by Julie Wolfthorn, 1897.

Julie Wolfthorn (1864-1944) was a German-Jewish female painter who created many illustrations for Jugend and was a well known and established portrait painter in Germany. Since the art schools did not accept women at that time, she travelled to Paris in the 1890′s to learn painting techniques and skills. She later became involved with the Berlin Secession and became a prominent member of it. Among her clients and friends were many female artists and important figures in society. Her life did not end well though. She later died in her 70′s at a camp established by the SS for Jewish citizens. She was said to have continued her drawing despite the horrific conditions there.

(Source: berlin-woman, wikipedia)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Mrs. Sarah Netanyahu receiving the four species  from Chabad Rabbis at the Prime Minister’s Sukkah.

Also seen in the photograph the Chief Rabbis of Israel.  

Hand-stencil rock art from Gua Tewet, Borneo, thought to be over 10,000 years old.

Photo courtesy of Luc-Henri Fage, via the Wiki Commons.

Happy Mother’s Day!

“Unrolling the Torah”, oil painting by Mané-Katz, from 1938

Farkash Gallery, Vintage Israel poster, Old Jaffa, Israel

Some of the very charming,stylish and jewish related pictures of Jacob Steinhardt. Read about him here.

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From Life? or Theater? by Charlotte Salomon