With the Spertus Museum's recent "censorship" of its exhibit of Holy Land maps, it is especially nice to see that famous (and autistic) artist Stephen Wiltshire has drawn Jerusalem. One blog says Wiltshire also wants to draw Tel Aviv, and quotes: "Jerusalem was the hardest city I've ever encountered to draw. There are many tiny details that are without architectural order or reason." ...
Most people who read this website are probably also scurrying to clean their houses for Passover (leaven be gone!) and searching high and low for divrei torah for the Seders. In the interests of satiating that need and self-promotion, here are my two suggestions for you if you want to rile up your family and friends. . . Are there hidden provocative Christian or pagan references in your Haggadah? For more on (non-kosher) hare hunts, German puns, and fertility symbols, see this story in the Forward. Who else is eating matzah when you are not looking? On Streits Matzah finding its way into more than a thousand churches for Communion wafers in American Jewish Life Magazine. ...
For those of you who haven't stumbled across the great toy in Google Trends, I highly recommend it. I've crunched the numbers below to try to illustrate where Jewish art stands. GT allows you to search up to 5 items, and "see how often they've been searched on Google over time." In the graph below, red is Christian art, yellow is Islamic art, blue is Jewish art, and green is religious art. I ...
