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A place for Jewish artists and Jewish themed art.

Featured Work

A Plentiful Life by KarenYeeFineArt

A Plentiful Life / Acrylic on canvas / 12×12 inches
Mezuzah by Ilunia Felczer

Original for sale..If you are interested contact me by email. /
"Hug me I'm Jewish" by princessxxx

He is so old but I love him. He’s even wearing a little kippah!
Havdallah candle by Roy Lindman

Havdallah candle This photo has been featured in Bagels and Lox- / Jewish themed art and writing
KIPPOT by Segalili

kippah (plural: kippot) is a thin, slightly-rounded skullcap traditionally worn at all times by observant Jewish men, and sometimes by both men and women in Conservative and Reform communities. Its use is associated with demonstrating respect and reverence for God. (Wikipedia). The photo was taken at Jaffa flea market on December 15, 2006.
Swim The Galilee-With Me by RobynLee

(Mixed Media 4×6 on CrdStock I found this postcard at an Art Movie Theater advertising a documentry of an Israeli Swim Team in the 1930’s,composed of Jewish Refugees. I found that inspiring which inspired me to make a collage out of the great pic of the swimmer, which I cut out and put against a background of sand,like she was on a beach, I added The beach ball & sun-tan Lotion(which coincidently looks like it has Hebrew writing on it) & a blue flower to her swim-cap.Next,I used a label maker(love mine!) to write the “Shalom” (which means Hello,Goodbye & Peace in Hebrew) & the title of the collage. Then I used a gold paint pen to outline the title and color in the Jewish Star on the girl’s swimsuit. Shalom!
Heavenly alley by Moshe Cohen

The holy city of Safed, perched on a mountain top in the upper Galilee, conjures many images to all lovers of the city. The romantic flavor of narrow cobblestone lanes and ancient synagogues fills one’s lungs with a new spirit. The rusty old houses with there domed roofs clearly identifies the city with the mysterious past of the Holy Land. The history of Safed, in real terms, dates back only five hundred years to the beginning of the 16th century. As if out of nowhere, Jews from near and far settled there – as if answering a divine call – and built the largest Jewish settlement in Palestine. Furthermore, great scholars and mystics opened yeshivos in Safed, being an added incentive to other young men of wisdom to settle there. In one sense, the last half of the 16th century was the pinnacle of Torah grandeur which the city experienced. The author of the Shulchan Aruch (Jewish Code of Laws), Rabbi Joseph Karo, sat at the head of the rabbinical court while compiling his compendium of Jewish Law. At the same time, another saintly man by the name of Rabbi Isaac Luria revealed the mystical side of the Torah, called Kabalah. Together these men and their disciples opened new pathways to the Torah which embedded an invisible holiness in the very rocks of the city. Today everyone who strolls through the city is caught off guard by the hidden spirit of Safed which vibrates full of life after so many generations. Not only newcomers are surprised, but even weathered old comers as well. Homage to Safed. Images from Safed: / Images from Abuhav Synagogue: / Featured in the following groups: / Light and Reflection / First Things / That One Great Shot / True Potential / Buyers Club / ImageWriting / Cityscapes and Skylines / Bagels and Lox – Jewish themed art and writing Challenge winner: / April Lamp in Light up My Life group.
Shana Tova... by Ilunia Felczer

Jewish New Year… / Upcoming Holiday Erev Rosh Hashanah starts 18 of September 2009 – 5769. / From my original watercolor…Hope you like it as a card… / Featured in Bagels and Lox – Jewish themed art and writing
Rosh Hashanah - Sounding of the Shofar by Ilunia Felczer

From my original watercolor… / / Featured in Bagels and Lox – Jewish themed art and writing / / All About the Blowing of the Shofar: / Sounding of the Shofar / / We are bidden by the Torah to sound a Shofar on Rosh Hashanah, as the verse (Bamidbar 29:1) states: And in the seventh month, on the first of the month, it shall be declared a holiday for you, a day of sounding a teruah for you. Rambam (Hilchot Teshuvah 3) writes: Although the sounding of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is a Divine decree [which is accepted without our having to understand its reason], nevertheless, we can discern a purpose in doing so. It is as if it tells us: Sleepers, arise from your slumber, and those who are dozing, awake from your lethargy. Review your actions, repent your sins, and remember your Creator! Those who forget the truth with the passing of time and who waste their years pursuing vanity and folly that is purposeless and cannot save you – look into your souls and improve your ways and your deeds. Let all abandon the ways of evil and thoughts that offer no benefit. Rav Sa’adyah Gaon writes that the sounding of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah contains ten symbolic elements: 1. Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the Creation, the day when G-d created the world and became its Sovereign. As it is customary to sound trumpets to glorify a king and proclaim one’s subservience to him, similarly do we show our acceptance of G-d’s dominion by sounding the shofar. 2. Rosh Hashanah marks the first day of the Ten Days of Repentance. We therefore sound the shofar as a means of announcing and warning that this period has begun. It is as if we announce: Those who choose to repent should do so now, and if they choose not to do so, let them not come later and complain about their fate. This too is the manner in which kings exercise their dominion, announcing their decrees to the accompaniment of trumpet blasts. 3. The sounding of the shofar served as a reminder of the revelation at Mount Sinai, which was also accompanied by shofar blasts. Thus, by listening to the shofar and remembering that event, we once again accept upon ourselves that which our fathers accepted upon themselves. 4. The sounding of the shofar serves to remind us of the remonstrations of our Prophets which are compared to the sounding of the shofar, as the verses (Yechezkel 33:4-5) state: And if the listener shall hear the sound of the shofar and not be careful, then the sword shall come and take him. And if he shall be careful, then his soul has escaped. 5. The sounding of the shofar serves to remind us of the destruction of the Beit ha-Mikdash and the trumpet calls of the armies of our enemies. Thus when we hear the shofar, we should pray for the rebuilding of our Holy Temple. 6. The sounding of the shofar serves as a reminder of the shofar of the ram at the binding of Yitzchak, who offered his life to G-d but in whose place the ram was sacrificed instead. We too should stand ready to make our lives a sanctification of His Name and we pray that this serve as a source of merit for us. 7. The sounding of the shofar instills a sense of trepidation and fear that leads us to humble ourselves before G-d, as the verse (Amos 3:8) states: If the shofar is sounded in the city, will people not tremble? 8. The sounding of the shofar serves to remind us of the forthcoming great Day of judgment, as the verses (Tzefanyah 1:14,16) state: The great day of G-d is near, close and quick [to come].. . is the day of [the sounding of] the shofar and the teruah. 9. The sounding of the shofar serves as a reminder of the future ingathering of the dispersed exiles of Israel and to awaken our yearning for it, of which the verse (Yeshayahu 27:13) states: And it shall be on that day, the great shofar shall be sounded and those who have been lost among Ashur shall come [back]. 10. The sounding of the shofar serves to remind us of the resurrection of the dead, as the verse (ibid. 18:3) states: All those inhabitants of the world and those who dwell in the earth, when a sign is lifted upon the mountains you shall see and when the shofar is sounded you shall hear. Provided by chabad.org / /
Happy new year - Hebrew by Moshe Cohen

The Jewish new year starts this year, 2009, on the evening of September 18. / It is called Rosh Hashana in Hebrew (the head of the year). I wish you all, Happy new year, may all your wishes come true It is observed on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, as ordained in the Bible, in Leviticus 23:24. Rosh Hashanah is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim (“Days of Awe”), or Asseret Yemei Teshuva (The Ten Days of Repentance), the most solemn days of the Jewish year, which conclude with the holiday of Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah is the start of the civil year in the Hebrew calendar (one of four “new year” observances that define various legal “years” for different purposes). It is the new year for people, animals, and legal contracts. The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical (shmita) and jubilee (yovel) years. Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of man whereas five days earlier, on 25 of Elul, marks the first day of creation—OU on Elul / The Mishnah, the core text of Judaism’s oral Torah, contains the first known reference to Rosh Hashana as the “day of judgment.” In the Talmud tractate on Rosh Hashanah it states that three books of account are opened on Rosh Hashanah , wherein the fate of the wicked, the righteous, and those of an intermediate class are recorded. The names of the righteous are immediately inscribed in the book of life, and they are sealed “to live.” The middle class are allowed a respite of ten days, until Yom Kippur, to repent and become righteous; the wicked are “blotted out of the book of the living.”
Tree of Life by Carol Berliner

Acrylic on canson paper. Inspired while on my partners boat! There was plenty of time to dream while observing nature! This tree really caught my eye so I started painting! / The spirits and creatures just leapt onto my page! / / / featured in Angel Wings and Heaven / featured in The Divine Feminine / featured in Sisters in Arms
Coming down by Gili Orr

“Coming down” was featured in Bagels and Lox – Jewish Photographers Unite! This is, of course, Moses descending Mt. Sinai with the Tablets of Testimony (in Hebrew: לוחות הברית Luchot HaBrit – “the tablets [of] the covenant”). Photo taken at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary, Jewish cemetery, Los Angeles, California. Shot with my Canon PowerShot S5 IS camera. I have no idea who the artist is. I would appreciate any information.

Recent Work

Six Point B&W by mither

kaleidoscope designed created using PSPPx2 and reszing in PS.
Kindle Cat by CiannaRose

Whimsical Chanukah / Hanukkah scene… white cat plays with a dreidel on the floor, the menorah glows on the mantle above the fire.
Bubbles Of Light by CiannaRose

Whimsical Chanukah / Hannukah scene… sunset, color and symbols fill this happy holiday image.
Illumination by CiannaRose

Whimsical Hanukkah / Chanukah scene… sunset, star, oil jar, menorah.
Shadows in a window, Jaffa by PenguinVic

A photo taken at night of a window in the artists’ quarter of Jaffa (Israel). The hamsa (a shape resembling an open palm) is a talisman popular among Sephardi Jews and Muslims throughout the Middle East and North Africa, which is supposed to ward off the evil eye.
Writing

Pesach (Passover)…Every year / We go out of Egypt. / At midnight we get up and leave / As we follow the voice in our souls. / Every year. / We turn our backs / ...

Written just before Pesach of 2000. All Jews are supposed to feel as if we have personally left Egypt, rather than our distant ancestors. This poem comes from that idea.
Boat And Flag In Eilat - Israel by Michael Redbourn

Was a kind of difficult picture to shoot because the boat was docking, and the wind kept dropping causing the flag to stop flapping.
The Way To Rothschild's Tomb by Michael Redbourn

On the southern outskirts of Zikhron Ya’aqov a road goes off on the right to Ramat Hanadiv (“Hill of the Benefactor”), on which Baron Edmond de Rothschild had expressed the wish to be buried; and in 1954 his remains and those of his wife Ada were taken from France to Israel in an Israeli warship and given a state burial there. The entrance to the luxuriant and carefully tended park containing the Rothschild Mausoleum is on the south side. To the west is a map carved in stone showing all the settlements in Israel founded by Edmond de Rothschild. In the center of the park, entered through a rectangular courtyard, is his mausoleum, which is even more impressive because of its simplicity.
East Meets West by Michael Redbourn

Not just east meets west but old meets young. The picture was taken in an indoor market in Jaffa and the young man is my son that just arrived from California. I like the different expressions and facial characteristics.
A Plentiful Life by KarenYeeFineArt

A Plentiful Life / Acrylic on canvas / 12×12 inches
sunset on the Great Sea. by zangi12

watercolor painting on 300gr fine paper. / In the Bible, the Great Sea is a term used for the Mediterranean Sea. / have a great week.

This is a group for Jewish artists and art that promote positive images of Judaism. People of all Jewish backgrounds from around the world are welcome, as are those who are not Jewish but have Jewish themed art to contribute.

Images of culture, of religion, of what Judaism means to you, this is the place for it! This group is a positive space for artists and while photojournalism is welcome, this is not the place for politics or debate.

Tasteful images only please.

Remember, this isn’t a dumping ground for all of your photos. Showcase your best and especially your Jewish themed photos. I don’t like to reject work but if I can’t see how the photo fits within the parameters of the group, I’m afraid I have to.