Photo: Courtesy of Kate Hendrickson Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. In 2018, I converted to Judaism. How I arrived here is a long story. In short, I came to a point in my life where I need grounding. You would think after being welcomed into Sephardic family, celebrating the holidays, […]
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Meet the Artist: Yael Rachel Smith
Photo: Courtesy of Yael Rachel Smith Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My name is Yael Rachel Smith, and I am a true combination of my parents. My father is a retired systems engineer and my mother is a musician. I’ve always been drawn both to the arts and sciences, and […]
Meet the Artist: Simina Brettschneider
Photo: Courtesy of Simina Brettschneider Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My name is Simina Brettschneider. I live in Israel in Haifa, am married and a mother of two and a retired engineer. I was born in Bucharest, Romania 62 years ago and Israel has been my home since 1985. What […]
Meet the Artist: Rami Mordoch
Photo: Courtesy of Rami Mordoch Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I am a multidisciplinary artist. born and raised in Israel. I’ve majored in visual communications studies at ‘Minshar for art college’ in Tel Aviv and had a user interface course at ‘Netcraft academy’. I’ve worked for several years in a […]
Meet the Artist: Shiran Zaray-Mizrahi
Photos: Courtesy of Shiran Zaray-Mizrahi Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I am culturally very international – I was born in Israel, grew up in South Africa, and moved to New York with my family after high school. In New York I studied illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology, intending […]
Meet the Artist: Rachel Ellison of Bat Sarah Press
Photo: Courtesy of Bat Sarah Press Photographer: Katalina Berbari Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m from the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in a household with a strong Jewish identity. My Hebrew day school had a wonderful art teacher, Mrs. Woloshin, and she directed many different art projects, […]
Meet the Artist: Shully Ratzon
Photo: Courtesy of Shully Ratzon Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. In the first years of my career, I worked as a graphic designer and practiced painting in as a secondary occupation. Later on, I realized my yearning for art and that it needs to occupy a more central place in […]
Meet the Artist: Claudia Trewik
Photo: Courtesy of Claudia Trewik Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born in Santiago, Chile in a traditional Jewish family. I attended a non-religious Jewish school. I´m a dentist by profession with a post graduate specialty in Oral Rehabilitation. I´ve been married for 20 years now and have 3 […]
Top 10 Most Read Interviews of 2021
Source: Pixabay A few more hours to go and we can bid 2021 farewell. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the passionate artists, musicians, and community leaders whom we have had the opportunity of featuring on our website throughout the year as well as our wonderful readers without whom our project […]
Meet the Artist: Natalie Fine Shapiro
Photo: Courtesy of Natalie Fine Shapiro Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born and raised in Minneapolis Mn, in the U.S. and I currently live there with my boyfriend, DJ and our dog, Squints. When I was a little girl, I was drawing a picture and someone asked me, […]