Slideshows
Slideshow: Noam Galai and ‘The Stolen Scream’
There’s a good chance you’ve seen Noam Galai’s face — even if you’ve never heard of him. That’s because a 2006 photo he took of himself screaming has been copied and used without permission by people, groups and companies around the world. “The Stolen Scream,” as the photo is called, has gone viral, appearing on t-shirts, magazine and book covers, and as political graffiti everywhere.
They’re the Top!
The Forward picks the best Jewish Oscar winners of all time, in every category imaginable. It’s all here, from (Woody) Allen to (Peter) Zinner.
Lynne Avadenka’s Jerusalem Calendar
Detroit-based printmaker and book artist Lynne Avadenka, whose previous projects have dealt with Hebrew and Arabic typography, exhibited recent works this week at the Jerusalem Print Workshop in the city’s Musrara neighborhood. The works are a culmination of her fellowship at the American Academy in Jerusalem.
Amy Winehouse, a Jewish Addition to the ‘Forever 27 Club’?
Amy Winehouse, the British, Jewish, hard-living soul singer was found dead today in her North London apartment. She was 27.
Slideshow: Brooklyn, the Shtetl
On her website, artist Ali Spechler describes her interest in “the notion of family and how shared experiences, whether positive or negative, breed strength and support.”
Slideshow: Jews of the Fillmore
With the opening of San Francisco’s Jewish Community High School of the Bay’s (JCHS) new building on Ellis Street in 2002, the city’s organized Jewish community finally returned to the Fillmore. Only local Jewish history buffs appreciated the significance; the neighborhood in which the school is situated — now called The Western Addition — was once San Francisco’s Lower East Side, albeit on a smaller scale than the section of Manhattan to which it is compared.