Religious Education: Jewish Child In Yemen

MARC CHAGALL - To My Betrothed (1911)

Gouache and oil on paper. 61 x 44.5 cm

Hanukkah at the White House

Among the gifts from heads of state that are in the holdings of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum is a menorah presented to President Truman by Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. The menorah dates back to at least 1767, when it was donated to a synagogue in Buergel, Germany.

The menorah was used in the synagogue until 1913, when it was found broken in pieces.  A man by the name of Siegfried Guggenheim asked for the broken pieces and provided a replacement. The Guggenheim family restored the old menorah for their personal use, and brought it to the United States when they immigrated in the 1930s.  Eventually, the menorah was acquired by the Jewish Museum in New York.

When Prime Minister Ben-Gurion visited the United States in 1951, he searched for a suitable gift to give to Harry S. Truman in light of the President’s recognition and support of the State of Israel.  The Jewish Museum suggested the menorah, and Prime Minister Ben-Gurion presented it to Truman on his birthday, May 8, 1951.  Read More

Photos: Menorah presented to Harry S. Truman by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban, of Isreal on May 8, 1951.  The menorah is currently on Display at the Truman Library.

Happy Hanukkah!

Café Schmus, the Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany by NOVONO

Source: Ken Lee 2010 (flickr)

Elizabeth Taylor

Shema Prayer “Here, Oh Israel, the lord our g-d, the lord is one.”

Farkash Gallery Old Jaffa

גלריה פרקש יפו העתיקה

Vincent Van Gogh: Casas en Auvers, 1890.

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Tahitian Pastorals

Paul Gauguin, 1893

The synagogue in Chodorov, in western Ukraine, was built in 1652 completely of wood and has remarkable, multicolored painting on its walls and ceiling. The artist drew his inspiration from Jewish heritage, Hebraic motives, the Bible and Talmud and from hand-written, illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages. Reconstruction of a section of the ceiling at Tel Aviv Museum of the Diaspora.

More beauties here.