Benefit Lunch with Bertha Kalich

Print engraving of man in turban pointing to open book with Dutch and French text underneath.

Portrait of Shabbetai Tzvi

Shabbetai Tzvi was the central figure of a messianic movement that swept the Jewish world in the mid-seventeenth century. Born in Izmir (Smyrna), as an adolescent Shabbetai Tzvi embarked on the study…

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Photograph of men standing and sitting in bunks wearing striped shirts and looking at camera. The one closest to the camera holds a Diet Coke.

Self-Portrait at Buchenwald: It’s the Real Thing

In 1993, Schechner digitally inserted himself into a historical photograph of prisoners in a newly liberated bunker at the Buchenwald concentration camp, taken in 1945 by Margaret Bourke-White. He…

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Leather capsule with four indented sections.

Tefillin

In Jewish tradition, the command to “bind them [God’s words] as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead” is understood as requiring passages from the Torah to be written on…

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Benefit Lunch with Bertha Kalich

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