by Alisa Fineman || I love Shabbat, especially because it’s all about getting back to the garden. Shabbat is the sacred instruction to cease from…

by Lisë Stern || I’ve always been drawn to Jacob’s dreams, so mysterious and compelling. When he leaves his childhood home, forever, as it turns…

by Sara Phina || Nails are an outer symbol of adornment/ feminine beauty. Women are told that they have to primp and “prune” to meet…

by Mär Martinez || I’m interested in how value is applied through language. Is value inherent, or granted through process – being written of stored…

by Lisë Stern || Parshat Balak is an ultimate story about mindfulness. Bilaam is a prophet with a direct connection to God. This is why…

by Jacob (Ya’akov) Sapon || This poem and musical setting arose from deep mediation on the book of Leviticus and its laws of Shmita and…

by Arielle Tonkin || I am an interdisciplinary performance and social practice artist, and my collaborations always begin as conversations. For “Shmita: painting a (re)…

by Ryan Clapp || As shmita teaches us to slow down, to reflect, I can’t think of a better representation than the meditative repetition of…

by Mike von der Nahmer || Nia Wa Ja Shu is a large choral piece with orchestra written for the Camerloher Gymnasium in connection to…