Photo: Courtesy of Judy Shechter Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. Hello, my name is Judy Shechter, Mosaic artist from Tel-Aviv. I grew up and was raised in a religious home and for some of my childhood years I lived and studied in New York. Nowadays I’m married, mother of three […]
Month: May 2023
Book Review: JEWels – Teasing out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling
Photo: Courtesy of Judaica in the Spotlight Book Description: JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid—jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poems—Jewish witticism is […]
Meet the Cantor and Artist: Deborah Katchko-Gray
Photo: Courtesy of Cantor Katchko-Gray Photo Credit: Kristen Jensen Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m a fourth-generation cantor, who loves folk music. I grew up on cantorial music from my famous grandfather, Cantor Adolph Katchko, my wonderful father, Cantor Theodore Katchko, and my mom, a great pianist and accompanist, organist […]