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Category Archives: Arts & Culture
Torah Covers, Sacred Textiles on Display at Chattanooga Jewish Cultural Center
Contemporary Torah cover by Barbara Barron
Torah Covers, Sacred Textiles features 24 covers that are used to protect a Torah, a scroll with Judaism’s most important text—the Five Books of Moses, the 613 commandments (mitzvot), and the Ten Commandments.
These covers are on loan from synagogues from Florida to New York Chattanooga’s three local congregations— Beth Sholom (Orthodox), B’nai Zion (Conservative) and Mizpah (Reform)—and from various artists.
Torah covers are commonly made Continue reading
Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah National Book Tour
Shmaltz Brewing (handcrafters of HE’BREW Beer® and Coney Island Craft Lagers®) proprietor Jeremy Cowan celebrates the national launch of Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah with a book tour that began this fall. The tour hits major and regional markets including NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Boston, North Carolina, Missoula, Baltimore, and others. Additional book events will be announced. Continue reading
Hot Hanukah… for those who love to read and cook
My shelves are overflowing with this years’ latest cookbooks and more! Take a Sneak peak at 1,000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire, and Change Your Life; ALL ACCESS: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Photography of Ken Regan; Hanukkah Stories: Thoughts on Family, Celebration and Joy; Syd Arthur; Inside the Jewish Bakery; Kosher Revolution: New Techniques and Great Recipes for Unlimited Kosher Cooking; Rose Petal Jam and Fresh & Easy Kosher Cooking: Ordinary Ingredients, Extraordinary Meals. Continue reading
ARTS & CULTURE
MUSIC
With beach towel hibernation on play,
we shuffle tunes with ocean side chill
Fool’s Gold double take, Courtesy Pitch Perfect Public Relations:::
Fool’s Gold
Leave No Trace
I Am Sound
After their noted self-titled debut in 2009, Fool’s Gold returns with much nachus. Continue reading
First-Ever Jewish Film-of-the-Month Club Launches in North America
Film Movement launch the first-ever North American Jewish Film-of-the-Month Club on May 9, 2011. The Jewish Film Club is a subscription-based service, which provides members (in the U.S. and Canada) access to an award-winning Jewish-themed feature film and bonus short film every other month before released to the general public. Continue reading
“The Guitar Player”… a movie about the homeless
http://www.theguitarplayermovie.com/
It only seems fitting, that in this bad economy, a film about someone who is homeless will be funded by the public. That is the intention of the filmmaker and writer Michael Stein, who has created an elaborate fund raising campaign to finance the film. Michael intends on giving half of his profits to homeless causes. In this day and age where film companies are taking what they can get, it seems like a grand gesture. Continue reading
A Holocaust Survivor’s Crusade To Make Our World A Better Place
Fred Katz knows how fragile life is. As a Holocaust survivor, he has seen the worst of human behavior and the effect it has on its victims.
“I know of six Holocaust survivors who became famous writers but committed suicide Continue reading
Jewels of Elul Vol. VII
For the 7th consecutive year, Craig Taubman and Craig ‘N Co. will publish Jewels of Elul Vol. VII, a collection of stories and anecdotes for the Jewish High Holy Days. 29 individuals, one for each day of the month of Elul, will contribute introspection on this year’s theme, The Art of Beginning…. Again
Jewels of Elul
IRIS Season of Star-Studded Debuts
The 2011-2012 IRIS Orchestra season kicks off with an exciting array of guest artists making their way for the first time to the Germantown Performing Arts Centre including comic genius Martin Short, who opens the series on Oct. 1, 2011.
“Our opening concert will be a party for IRIS and our audience alike,” said artistic director and principal conductor Michael Stern about the Emmy® Award-winning Martin Short. “Everyone knows Martin Short as a man of multifarious voices and madcap characters (some of whom make spontaneous appearances in his narration of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf), but not everyone is aware of the role music has played in his life. His mother was the concertmaster of the Hamilton, Ontario Orchestra, and he himself – in addition to his award-winning roles in musical theater – has appeared with more than 30 orchestras worldwide. We’re in for an evening of serious – and seriously musical –fun.”
The Dec. 3, 2011, concert features Continue reading