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A series of events that celebrate art and ideas, and the artists and thinkers behind them
Here's a look at the joy and artistry of last year’s inaugural Kumah festival:
Genesis by Ghiora Aharoni
We opened the Kumah Festival at the studio of renowned artist Ghiora Aharoni, exploring his Genesis Series, an example of Jewish art that seeks to create new life while carrying within it the painful shards of memory. The Genesis Series goes straight to the heart of the Kumah Festival’s mission: to highlight the overlapping spaces between faith, art and politics -- bringing together different religious traditions, faith and science, the ancient and the ever-renewing.
Click the GIF below to view the gallery captured by Itamar Dotan Katz. Click the image below to watch the recording of the event.
The Law in These Parts - The Legal System in The West bank
In honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, we deepened our engagement with Israeli/Palestinian issues through the lens of The Law In These Parts, a film that sheds light on the situation in the West Bank.
Watch the recording below.
We Cannot Rest Until Everyone Can Rest
As Jews, we embrace Shabbat, a day of rest every week of our lives, a protected time and space to reset, repair and restore. But, we cannot rest until all people can rest. It was a special Shabbat, an experiential evening of Shmita*, poetry, renewal and restoration, all inspired by the Brooklyn-based organization Black Women’s Blueprint.
Click the GIF below to view the gallery captured by Itamar Dotan Katz. Click the image below to watch the recording of the event.
New Psalms
The Psalms are some of the most widely read poetry ever written. Cutting through time, space and traditions they touch billions of people around the globe today. But their translations often render them remote, stiff, "religious" in the worst sense of the word. Over the last year Rabbi Misha has chosen a few of the most political of the Psalms and attempted to translate them in a way that cuts through the paradigms of God, the Patriarchy and traditional power structures and into the intimate heart of these poems of power and love.
Watch the recording below.
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