Jewish Eyes On The Arts - formerly Oholiav

05/30/2014

Last week, our co-founder Timna Burston received The Jewish Education Project's Young Pioneers Award. Congratulations and mazzal tov, Timna!

http://www.longislandexchange.com/press-releases/247247/

(New York, NY) At a Celebration event last week, 5 exceptional and highly innovative Jewish educators received The Jewish Education 2014 Young Pioneers Award. These remarkable young men and women are changing the face of Jewish education, by boldly trying new methods to engage kids and teens; by ed…

03/31/2014

An exclusive audio interview with Sydney Schiff (artistic director of Sydney Schiff Dance Project) on our site!

http://jewisheyesonthearts.com/2014/03/exclusive-interview-sydney-schiff-dance-project-on-dry-bones/

I sat down on Sunday to interview Sydney Schiff, artistic director of Sydney Schiff Dance Project, to talk about her company's latest piece, Dry Bones: Resurrection of the Living. We hope you enjoy...

03/24/2014

We are pleased to announce that our co-founder creative co-director Timna Burston has won the 2014 Young Pioneers Award from The Jewish Education Project! Mazzal tov!

01/26/2014

Frozen: Breaking the Ice for Women http://wp.me/p1BXKw-40C

Seeing Frozen as a model for a society where women can be independent... the beginning of a new age for Disney... Continue reading → [ 628 more words. ]

12/29/2013

Middle-Earth Midrash (part four) http://wp.me/p1BXKw-40i

Continued from here, here, and here. “Quite a little fellow in a wide world”: Smallness, Significance, and Finding Balance The Hobbit ends, in some sense, where it began: in Bilbo’s comfortable hole in the Shire. Bilbo, Gandalf,… [ 1873 more words. ]

12/24/2013

Middle-Earth Midrash (part 3) http://wp.me/p1BXKw-40c

(Continued from parts one and two) “The Bravest Thing He Ever Did”: Valour, Victory, and the Great Battle There is an emphasis throughout Tolkien’s work on what one might call “true heroism,” which comes not from martial… [ 998 more words. ]

12/11/2013

Middle-Earth Midrash: A Jewish View of The Hobbit (part 1) http://wp.me/p1BXKw-3ZO

Note: the printed book The Hobbit (1994 edition) is indicated by an italicized title, while Peter Jackson’s 2012 film “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is referred to with quotation marks. “According to the Nature of the… [ 2223 more words. ]

06/27/2013

"This is the End" and Judaism

When I went to see “This is the End” last weekend, I expected another typical, racy Judd Apatow movie filled with the same lewd jokes and raunchy humor as all the others... Continue reading →

06/05/2013

Elke Reva Sudin, the founder of Jewish Art Now, wrote a very thorough and thoughtful article about the challenges the Jewish art world faces.

We've got a shout-out too. http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/where-is-jewish-art-now/?utm_source=Wed+June+5&utm_campaign=Wed+June+5&utm_medium=email

Recently, it was announced that the UJA-Federation in New York will not be renewing their funding of the Six Points Fellowship, a program that has awarded about $1.26 million in grants to 30 Jewish artists to make new Jewish art.

05/31/2013

A JEWISH EYES EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with Stanley Ely, author of Ten Ways To Your Cat's Happiness: A Novel

A Jewish Eyes exclusive interview with author Stanley Ely. Continue reading →

05/29/2013

Instruments With Souls, or What Weird Al and Ray Manzarek Have Taught About Making Music of the Soul

Making music of the heart and the soul. On 30 years of Yankovic the rocker and the robot. Continue reading →

05/23/2013

Iron Man 3 - In the Image of God

What does Iron Man 3 teach us about the nature of human beings? Biology, technology or something else? Continue reading →