I recently completed a new painting after a few months’ hiatus while I finished a book I hope will be published soon. As with many of my paintings, it was inspired by a text that struck me with great force, a teaching by the 18th century Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky, a disciple of the Baal …
For our Passover Seder, we ask people to share a story from their own experience or imagination that rhymes somehow with the exodus from slavery. Here’s how we put the prompt this time: This year, we’re feeling like Mitzrayim is here and our challenge is to allow something far better to push through and be …
Twenty years ago, my friend Daniel Burstyn introduced me to an exercise created for Passover, the Jewish holiday which this year begins on the evening of 12 April. The holiday commemorates the exodus from slavery in Egypt (“Mitzrayim” in Hebrew, which also means “straits” or “narrow places”). The tradition is to retell the story as …