Kippot as checkers pieces from "Reinventing Ritual" exhibit at the Jewish Museum.Ritual is pretty important in Judaism. Unlike some other religions subjective belief alone does not suffice. And so it should not come as a surprise that ritual objects make up a large percentage of the permanent collections of Jewish museum collections. The week before last I wrote about Tobi Kahn's exhibit of ritual objects at the Museum of Biblical Art, and now The Jewish Museum is having a new exhibit entitled Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life. "Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to survey Jewish ritual as a vital site of experimentation in contemporary art and design since the 1990s. Nearly sixty groundbreaking works in diverse media, from jewelry to video to architecture, by 58 leading artists reveal the intersections of creative freedom and ethical practice." The exhibit continues through February 7, 2010. The Jewish Museum is located on Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street in Manhattan and is closed on Wednesdays. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, $7.50 for students, and free for children under 12.
Simon Dinnerstein's drawing Rear Window is one of the works in About Face, an exhibit opening Wednesday November 4, 2009 at Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn that offers selections curated to turn around the viewer's expectations of the human face in art. Whether obscured, distorted, psychologically askew, or oversize in scale, none of the works resemble traditional portraiture.
Original contemporary paintings, photographs, sculptures and works on paper will be on display. Among the artists exhibiting in About Face are Jeannine Bardo, Stephen Basso, Simon Dinnerstein, Anita Giraldo, Clarity Haynes, Kiseok Kim, Alexandra Limpert, Alex Pimienta, David Prifti, Stuart Shedletsky, and Larry Siegel.
Tabla Rasa Gallery is located at 224 48 Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues) in Brooklyn, two "D" or "N" express subway stops from Manhattan to the 36th Street Station plus one "R" stop to 45th Street. Ample street parking is available.
Tabla Rasa Gallery is free and open to the public. There will be an artists’ reception on Wednesday, November 4th, from 5:30 until 8:30 pm. General gallery hours are Thursday, Friday and Saturday 1:00 until 5:00 pm. ABOUT FACE remains on view through January 23, 2010. Call 718.833.9100 for additional hours, events, and schedule updates.
ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT AN OLDER ADULT PARENT, SPOUSE, RELATIVE, FRIEND OR NEIGHBOR? COME TO FREE CAREGIVER FORUMS AT KANE STREET SYNAGOGUE:
INTRODUCTION TO CAREGIVING –October 29th
“I am not a caregiver, I’m a daughter (or son, or niece or nephew…)” What should I do? Who can help me? Presented by Heights & Hills Executive Director Judy Willig, LCSW
THE INSURANCE MAZE –November 5th?Medicare, Medigap, Medicare Part D, Long-Term Care Insurance Presented by Amy Bernstein, Director, Health Insurance Information and Counseling Assistance Program
LEGAL & FINANCIAL PLANNING –November 12th?Presented by Judith Grimaldi, Esq., Grimaldi and Yeung Please RSVP to Megan King at (212) 244-4880 or megan@dougwingo.com Heights and Hills is a non-profit organization that connects older adults and their caregivers with the information, support and services they need to age independently in Brooklyn, home to more seniors than any other borough.
Workshops will be presented from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at: KANE STREET SYNAGOGUE – 236 Kane Street, Brooklyn NY 11231 ?Co-Sponsored by Kane Street Synagogue
Women's Health--not for women only
Brooklyn Hadassah is sponsoring an evening of speakers from Maimonides Medical Center on various issues relating to Women's Health Awareness on Wednesday, November 4 from 5:00-8:00 PM at the EAST MIDWOOD JEWISH CENTER, 1625 Ocean Avenue between Avenues J and K in Brooklyn. $30 at the door includes a dairy supper.
Fans of the HBO dramatic series In Treatment will want to attend JCC Manhattan's class Jewish Ideas and Issues
: Therapists Limor Kaufman (Israeli) and Seth Aronson (American) discuss their therapeutic perspectives on the popular Israeli TV series, B'tipul and HBO's popular spin off, In Treatment. 3 Wednesdays, Nov 4-18, 7-8:30 pm, $60/$70 
B'tipul? In Treatment? Therapists View Therapy in
Israel and the U.S.
JCC Manhattan is located on Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street in Manhattan.
If you missed the free Sway Machinery concert I plugged back in July you have another chance to hear them but it won't be for free.Eli Valley vs the Sway Machinery
Twisted Social Satire meets Avant-Semitic Post-Punk
Eli Valley vs the Sway Machinery in the Temple of Self Hatred
AN EVENING OF NEW JEWISH CULTURE AT JOE’S PUB
The Foundation for Jewish Culture and The Forward present “Eli Valley vs the Sway Machinery in the Temple of Self Hatred” with special guests Girls In Trouble previewing their new CD, a reading from the winner of the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers and other guests and surprises. The event will be held on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 7PM at Joe’s Pub.
Eli Valley, maker of mind-bending comics, teams up with Jeremiah Lockwood and The Sway Machinery, makers of mind-bending melodies, for an evening of neurotic superheroes, paranoid turtles, memories, music and mayhem. Valley’s work has brought back a marauding sensibility to The Forward, the landmark Jewish newspaper formed in 1897 as a bulwark of secular Jewish culture in America. The Sway Machinery has reinvented and reinvigorated cantorial melodies for a post-punk age. Together, they play off each other like a rabbi and cantor of a synagogue on the other side of sanity. Watch them mix and mash styles, share personal stories and narrate comics to a live, avant-semitic soundtrack, bringing a kinetic new spin to contemporary Jewish culture.
Girls in Trouble is the songwriting debut of multi-instrumentalist Alicia Jo Rabins, who performs all vocals, guitar parts and string sections for the album. Alicia marries her classical training and folk-punk sensitivity to her penchant for Jewish literature, mysticism and history. The result: pop hooks grounded in experimentation, subtle musicianship and a taste for ruminative lyrics.
Eli Valley vs the Sway Machinery in the Temple of Self Hatred performs Monday, November 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater located at 425 Lafayette Street in Manhattan. Tickets are $15 and are available online at joespub.com, by phone at 212-967-7555 or in person at The Public Theater Box Office (425 Lafayette Street) Tues-Sat from 1:00pm to 7:30pm; Sun + Mon from 1:00pm to 6:00pm
ABOUT ELI VALLEY
Eli Valley’s art has been called “ferociously repugnant” by Commentary. His comics have appeared in The Forward, Haaretz, Gawker and Jewcy, and new work appears monthly in The Forward. Eli is also the author of The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe, and he is currently finishing his first novel. His website is www.EVComics.com.
ABOUT JEREMIAH LOCKWOOD
Son of composer Larry Lockwood and the grandson of the legendary Cantor Jacob Konigsberg, Jeremiah Lockwood began his musical career playing on the streets of Manhattan. He soon struck up a relationship with Piedmont Blues master Carolina Slim, with whom he still performs. Jeremiah and Carolina Slim have appeared together in Avery Fisher Hall, the New School Blues Festival, and have been profiled in The New York Times Magazine and TimeOut NY. Jeremiah has worked for years as the front man for The Sway Machinery, a blues/world beat/Chazzanus ensemble that is currently revamping its sound and taking New York by storm with the help of friends from the Antibalas horn section. In the past years, Jeremiah has also been appearing with J-Dub recording artists Balkan Beat Box. Jeremiah’s blues-oriented solo album, American Primitive, was released by Vee-Ron Records/Red Eye Distribution in April 2006. Jeremiah Lockwood lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Shasta and their sons Moses Lion and Jacob Ulysses.
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