Rosh Hashanah is Coming: Gorgeous Challah Covers to Welcome the New Year!

What comes to mind first when thinking about Rosh Hashanah dinners? Spoiling your loved ones with your family’s traditional honey cake? A homemade apple compote, maybe? Or is it the smell of freshly baked cinnamon – raisin Challah you will be sharing with your nearest and dearest? No one will ever blame you if it’s […]

Rosh Hashanah is Coming: Pomegranate Statement Jewellery

Pomegranates are revered in many cultures throughout the world, symbolising anything from righteousness, good fortunate, fertility, abundance, and prosperity to a blessed future. With Rosh Hashanah around the corner, we put together a carefully curated selection of our favourite pomegranate statement jewellery designs of the year.  What better time to add some new and inspiring […]

Meet the Artist: Dov Ber of Shins of Stone

Photo: Courtesy of Shins of Stone Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. My family made Aliya to Beit Shemesh when I was around 15 years old.  Growing up, I worked with my hands a lot. I dabbled in carpentry, construction, high-end house painting, and other […]

Meet the Artist: Judy Shechter of JudyArt

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 […]

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 […]

*Book Review* –  Modern Judaica : Today’s Makers, Today’s Sacred Objects

Image: Courtesy of Judaica in the Spotlight Book Description: For anyone with an interest in Judaica and sacred objects, this book presents some of the most outstanding examples of contemporary Judaica that have been created over the last 30+ years.  Fifty-three makers have told their stories in their own words, giving incredible insights into why […]

Meet the Artist: Suzaluna

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I am an artist living and working out of my home studio on the north shore of Boston. I am mostly a ceramic artist but I also create jewelry, fiber art, recycled stuffed animals and I create nature mandalas on the new and full moons. […]

Meet the Jewellery Designer: Hardy of Jeweria

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. Hello, I am Hardy and along with my business partner Holger I am founder and owner of a small company in the heart of Germany. In 2010 we started making our own handmade art objects and in 2020 the German government asked us if it […]

*Book Review*: 10 Ways To No Longer Being A Depressed Artist

Image: Courtesy of Judaica in the Spotlight First and foremost, we would like to thank Peshah Ann for kindly sending us a complimentary copy of her beautiful guidebook as well as some of her jewellery pieces for review. Description: 10 Ways To No Longer Being A Depressed Artist is a quick read, filled with insights […]

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