The work of Israeli photographer Gilad Ophir has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel, the United States, and Europe. He has received the Israel Ministry of Science and Culture Award (2002). His photographs are found in the Tate Modern, the Israel Museum, and the Jewish Museum.
The Exodus story serves as more than a religious or moral narrative. Its influence has shaped the fundamental paradigms of Western political thought to this day.
Printing, which Jews adopted immediately after its invention, helped to unify far-flung communities. Where previously Jewish learning had been transmitted through the individual copying of manuscripts…
On the white garments of my great-grandfather
the cross of the middle ages flames anew.
My great-grandfather sits at the seder,
holding a staff from a wild almond tree
to rouse the forefathers.
Not…