Sculptor Michael Gitlin emigrated with his family from South Africa to Israel as a child and has lived in New York City since 1970. Gitlin is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2005) and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant (1991). His work is found in such collections as the Detroit Institute of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Jewish Museum.
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. He did what was…
This letter hailing Shabbetai Tzvi as the Messiah was signed by twenty-four prominent members of the Amsterdam Jewish community who had founded a learned society, Yeshuot Meshiho, in his honor. It was…
Mikve Israel-Emanuel is a synagogue that served the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Curaçao (and continues to function today as a Reconstructionist congregation). It is the oldest surviving…