02/04/2021
Artist: Marthe Roberts Shea
Title: Moral Compass*
Medium: Mixed Media
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Jewish Art, Photography, Judaica and Jewish HIstory Among the collection’s highlights are the second oldest known American ketubbah (marriage contract) from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1778; one of the oldest known Torah wimpels (binder), Germany, 1695; a unique, contemporary, sculptural "Elijah's Chair" by Mark Sfirri and Robert Dodge, commissioned by the Friends of the Museum; a rare religious commentary from Venice, Italy, 1574; a collection of pottery from ancient Israel representing 3,500 years of history; a Holocaust era Huppah (bridal canopy) from the Farenwald Displaced Persons Camp; and the Buxton Collection of Jewish Music and the Performing Arts.
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Among the artists represented in its contemporary collection: Douglas Beube, Robbin Ami Silberberg, Elsa Wachs, Andras Borocz, Gaza Bowen, Robert Morris, Mila Gribbel, Tamar Hesser, Jonathan Kremer, Sandra Jackman, Ray King, Phil Blank, Leonard Baskin, Chaim Gross, Marc Chagall, Al Gilens, Leonard Baskin, and Phillip Ratner.
Among the artists represented in its contemporary collection: Douglas Beube, Robbin Ami Silberberg, Elsa Wachs, Andras Borocz, Gaza Bowen, Robert Morris, Mila Gribbel, Tamar Hesser, Jonathan Kremer, Sandra Jackman, Ray King, Phil Blank, Leonard Baskin, Chaim Gross, Marc Chagall, Al Gilens, Leonard Baskin, and Phillip Ratner.
Mission: The Temple Judea Museum, founded in 1984, has as the core of its mission its treasured collections of Judaica, ephemera and visual art. The mandate of the museum begins with its collection: its preservation, acquisition, exhibition, and use as an educational tool. The museum’s active exhibition schedule showcases both its historic and contemporary collections. In addition, community outreach is essential. Museum docents give tours of exhibitions and of “The Prophetic Quest” the massive feat of stained glass art by artist Jacob Landau, installed in the congregations’ Korn Memorial Sanctuary.
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02/04/2021
Moral Compass* Artists Respond to Crisis Exhibition at the Temple Judea Museum
This video features work created by artists in response to the difficult times that we are presently living through. Their work reflects a wide variety of artistic approaches to the morally challenging crisis we have been confronted with as a society over the past year that includes the Covid19 Pandemic, Political Upheaval, Systemic Racism and so on. This inspiring exhibition will run through March 15th, 2021.
01/14/2021
Lloyd Wolf: The Jewish photographer who captured photos of Capitol mob
Lloyd Wolf’s work is in our upcoming exhibition, Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crisis. Make sure to see his important photography at the Temple Judea Museum
But I came home to my partner, Ruth, and said ‘I’m OK, but I’m going to have a little PTSD stuff for a couple days.’
12/19/2020
One of our TMJ artists, Joan Myerson Shrager will be presenting her work with the Jewish Art Salon which is a group of International artists and scholars that promotes contemporary Jewish visual art. Joan's presentation is this Tuesday, December 22nd at 12 pm. The link is below:
https://jewishartsalon.org/
12/01/2020
Marlene D'Orazio Adler
Title: Cherished Keepsakes - Cherished Memories
Medium: Mixed Media
Collection of Temple Judea Museum
12/01/2020
Temple Judea Museum volunteer, Natalie Shamberg came to see Marlene's exhibition - Exploring Judaism and Spirituality. There is still time to see her exhibition runs through December 15th.
Call the museum for an appointment at 215-8878700 ext. 416
10/21/2020
Marlene Adler Talks About Her Prayer Coat
New videos featuring Marlene Adler and her current TJM exhibition.
https://youtu.be/GIB3oSxnbDM
https://youtu.be/7frLZAaefz4
https://youtu.be/-XlgYHbW_hA
09/30/2020
Inside a Special Hanukkah Menorah Collection
Professor Sabar has an amazing collection of Jewish ephemera and Judaica. Among them, 25,000 Jewish cards - post cards, greeting cards , invitations etc.
He is a true Jewish dumpster diver
Enjoy
HOLY LAND UNCOVERED | Every night for eight nights, Jews around the world will light a Menorah – the unique candelabrum used on Hanukkah. Professor Shalom Sa...
09/18/2020
The Maccabeats - Bashana Haba'a - Rosh Hashanah
Enjoy
One of my favorite songs
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Music video for "Bashana Haba'a," a song of hope for the year to come. Shana Tova from our families to yours! Purchase this track: https://maccabeats.bandcam...
09/16/2020
Marlene made a virtual tour of her exhibition entitled Exploring Judaism and Spirituality currently on display at the Temple Judea Museum. If you can not make an appointment to see the exhibition in person. The link below will take you to our YouTube channel to take the virtual tour. This is our first virtual tour and there will be more to come!
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/TJkroMayNWw
09/16/2020
Marlene D'Orazio Adler
Title: “The Mitzvah of the Honeybee”
Medium: Gouache and Collage
Size: 22 in. W x 30 in. H
Giclee Print (from an original gouache and watercolor)
This art work can be made in various sizes if interested in purchasing a print. Contact the museum if interested.
Artist Statement:
The honeybee is the most important pollinator of our crops. Honey is an amazing food source and it also has a symbolic connection to Jewish tradition. Honey is kosher and sustains life. Some traditions prefer using raw honeycomb, and the Hebrew word for “raw” is “chai," which is also translated as “life”. The numerical value of the Hebrew letters in chai is 18 which is considered a spiritual number.
09/16/2020
We just received this amazing gift of an 18 volume history of the early settlers of the modern State of Israel. True pioneers. It is in excellent condition. Rare and highly prized
09/15/2020
Artists Ricki Lent and Robyn Miller meeting today with contractor Doni Avivi about plans for the installation of the wonderful new mosaic the two artists are creating for a special site at KI. Stay tuned as this work develops
09/15/2020
A wonderful visual essay for the High Holydays by Marlene D’Orazio Adler. Enjoy!
09/15/2020
Enjoy a tour through our KI/TJM Sukkah
09/12/2020
Exploring Judaism and Spirituality by Marlene D’Orazio Adler
Take a virtual tour through Marlene D’Orazio Adler’s Exploring Judaism and Spirituality.
https://youtu.be/TJkroMayNWw
03/09/2020
After another great Purim Carnival. https://ift.tt/2IwjQ2z
02/06/2020
Great day. Music program of klezmer recordings from our collection led by the incomparable Ken Ulansey. https://ift.tt/2H0CUoX
02/04/2020
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02/04/2020
Celebration of Nathan Hilu Exhibition and Collector Robert Weisman on Sunday February 2nd.
01/23/2020
Lobby ceiling Philadelphia building. Attended a museum meeting there yesterday at the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. https://ift.tt/2sQNY4t
01/21/2020
Can't wait for our pre-school kids to meet our new exhibiting artist, Bonnie Kane. Her quilting is extraordinary.
Our artist in residence, Bonnie Kane is a fiber artist. She installed her work yesterday in the gallery. Her quilts are exquisite and the children will love the bright colors and patterns. We are looking forward to her art project that she will be making with the pre-school students sometime soon.
Please stop into the gallery to see Bonnie's work. Her exhibit will be up until the end of April. We will post more information as to when the Tot Shabbat Artist Reception will be.
More photos will be posted of Bonnie's fiber art works sometime soon.
01/14/2020
The museum's winter exhibition is about two men: Outsider artist Nathan Hilu and collector, Robert Weisman. Weisman's eclectic taste as a collector runs from the formalism of Israeli artist, Menashe Kadishman, to the Outsider art of the late Nathan Hilu and from fine art to craft and kitsch.
The title of the exhibition is called: HILU THROUGH THE EYES OF A COLLECTOR.
The exhibition is in the process of installation. It will open January 17th through March 6th. We are sure you will enjoy Hilu's sense of humor that is portrayed in his art work.
"Nathan Hilu may be the most significant Jewish Outsider artist you’ve never heard of." Tablet Magazine, 2011
01/14/2020
Artist : Nathan Hilu
Collection of Robert Weisman
01/04/2020
Just purchased for the museum’s photo collection. A 1980s Jewish protest in support of choice for women https://ift.tt/36kZeVq
12/03/2019
In honor of Giving Tuesday, Tsedakah boxes from our collection. Become a Friend of the Temple Judea Museum. Contact us at [email protected] https://ift.tt/2Rho6sc
12/03/2019
Today is giving Tuesday. Looking at the tzedakah boxes in our collection. Become a friend of the Temple Judea Museum.
11/26/2019
Left to Right
Ben Gurion and his wife, Paula. at their Sde Boker home. TJM Photography Collection
Artist - Robert Dennis Title - Shamar: The Silent Prophets
Breast Plate from the collection of TJM
11/26/2019
The Temple Judea Museum's cover photo
11/26/2019
Look for our new web page in development link on the upcoming new KI web page. If you have not seen our Teddy Roosevelt Exhibition please stop in to see soon.
It is on view until mid December.
11/26/2019
The Temple Judea Museum's cover photo
11/25/2019
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10/29/2019
Artist: Cheryl Harper
Title: Only the Bears Should Reproduce
10/18/2019
New dolls just added to our wonderful collection of Jewish dolls from around the world https://ift.tt/2oXtODQ
10/10/2019
Our next Arts Alive/Words Alive artist, Arthur Haywood Jr. installing his upcoming show in our gallery. Our pre school kids get to meet this fascinating artist next week. https://ift.tt/2M2VGzm
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Temple Judea Museum Hosts Virtual Exhibit ‘Exploring Judaism and Spirituality”
Temple Judea Museum at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel will host virtual exhibit “Exploring Judaism and Spirituality” by Marlene D’Orazio Adler through Dec. 15.
A resident of Glenside, Adler is an art educator and has taught art in both public and private schools.
The exhibit may be viewed at youtu.be/TJkroMayNWw.
The exhibit may also be viewed in person by appointment only by calling 215-887-8700.
In the Temple Judea Museum’s 2012 exhibition, Engaged with Democracy – Our Passions, Our Visions we chose to look at political life, specifically the campaign process, through the lens of a biblically established Jewish affinity to be involved in processes that shape our governance. Now in 2020, during this current presidential campaign we revisit that exhibition. In order to understand the link between Jewish thought and the democratic process one has only to look at Philadelphia’s historic Liberty Bell, commissioned in 1751 to celebrate fifty years of William Penn’s Charter of Privileges, the colony’s law until 1776. The inscription chosen for the bell by a committee of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly is, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” from the book of Leviticus 25:10.
EXHIBITION STATEMENT BY RABBI LANCE J. SUSSMAN, PH.D.
Stand Beside Her and Guide Her: Jews, Politics and America
Jewish people have lived in every imaginable polity from clans to tribes; from limited monarchies to empires; from dictatorships of all stripes to democracies. Jews have also supported a wide spectrum of political ideologies and economic philosophies. Jewish people have lived as an autonomous nation, as resident aliens and as enfranchised citizens of non-Jewish states. Today, the largest Jewish community in the world is in the State of Israel and is self-governing. The world’s second largest Jewish community is to be found here in the United States where Jews are a fully enfranchised ethno-religious minority in a remarkably heterogeneous society.
American Jews have been particularly passionate about their involvement in American politics from the arrival of Jews in the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam in 1654 until today. Touchstones of this involvement include: the first Jewish colonists sustained effort for permission to settle permanently in New Amsterdam; the election of the first Jew to political office in the United States in 1776 (in South Carolina); the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court; the first Jew to run for Vice President of the United States. Jews have been among the most politically active groups in American history. Jews have been Jeffersonians, Democrats, Republicans, Socialists, Libertarians, Bull Moose Progressives and more. Jews vote in record numbers, work for political campaigns and donate generously to political campaigns at every level of government. Jews even lobby the government of the United States. AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, is the leading, but hardly unique, example of American Jewish activism.
Reform Judaism, as a religious movement, has also been politically active for over a hundred years. KI’s own Rabbi David Einhorn was a famous abolitionist. Beginning in the Progressive Era, Reform leaders, both lay and rabbinic, took controversial stands on child labor; separation of church and state; immigration policy; war and peace. The legislation for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was actually written on the premises of the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center (RAC) in the nation’s capital. The RAC continues to be an integral part of the “Inside the Beltway” scene in Washington to this day.
Politics is not a sport for the fainted hearted. It can be brutal and bruising. But is also an inalienable right for us to participate in the political process as individuals and as members of a small sub-community who proudly call themselves Americans. I was too young to say whether or not “I liked Ike” but I love “I like Ike” buttons, Gene McCarthy buttons and President McKinley buttons. They all point to the same things: our shared democratic values; our belief in the equality of all people in the eyes of the law; and the ongoing, inspiring promise of America! Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D.
IMAGES: Political campaign pins from the collection of Flora L. Becker and her husband, the late Judge Edward R, Becker (1933 – 2006). The entire collection is a marvelous record of the elections and political trends of the past one hundred and forty-eight years.
SOME BACKGROUND OF AMERICAN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN BUTTONS
Political buttons were the political advertisements of their day and helped generate name recognition for candidates for public office. They date as far back as President George Washington when sewn on cloth buttons were used. The first mass production of pin-back political campaign buttons, as we know them today, came in 1896 for William McKinley’s campaign for the presidency of the United States. The earliest pin in the Becker Collection dates to the 1840 presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison.
There is a lot to look for in this exhibition. Look for Milton J. Shapp who was the first constitutional governor to be elected to two consecutive terms in Pennsylvania. Shapp, originally Shapiro, changed his name because he was concerned with the prejudice that might result if it was known that he was Jewish. He was also the first Jewish Governor of Pennsylvania.
OTHER PARTS OF THE EXHIBITION: The TJMuseum collection includes the Morris Finkel Memorial Collection of Russian early 20th century political posters. Displayed along with these exceptional and rare posters are two important loaned works from the collection of Lee and Barbara Maimon and a special focus on the groundbreaking Jewish American woman politician from New York, Bella Abzug.
This exhibition demonstrates that political campaigns are about citizens who care passionately about the democratic process. The visual narrative tells of ardent collectors and artists who make the intangibles of doctrines and partisanship a tangible, accessible reality.
https://www.kenesethisrael.org/tjm-democracy/
Photos by Marlene Adler, Poster by Joan Myerson Shrager. Chairs by the great artists of KI.
Stained Glass Project student talks about his window, The Elephant, to leaders of the Bridge to Uganda program in the museum.
Please visit the Temple Judea Museum to see The Stained Glass Project Windows for Uganda. Members Paula Mandel and Joan Myerson Shrager are putting the finishing touches on the exhibition. Come see what our talented Philly teens have done.