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It was grandma’s rock. Something that I have that was hers. It’s special because my mom likes it a lot too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712778816-QLBRZ1SAQ4RJPAVAU97X/Wendee+Cutler_edit_17_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Wendee, 63 I grew up in Sacramento and my mom’s family was in the Bay area. Still, we spent every holiday together. Every Passover, every Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Thanksgiving and even Christmas Day we spent with my mom’s sister, her husband, their three kids and my grandparents. And frequently, my grandmother’s brother with his kids and grandchildren were part of it too. The first year we lived in Greensboro was the only time in my life I had not been with family on Thanksgiving. Before any meal, we always served chopped liver and creamed herring. I think it’s a Jewish thing. I would watch it being made when I was young. And right before I moved here my mother said, “You need to stand right next to me and watch how I do this so that you’ll have the recipe and know what to do going forward. ” And I did. Every time I bring out the wooden bowl and hocher I think about my grandmother and mother, the dinners they prepared and all of those family gatherings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580762053567-7Z1ADNS2BEVW7I12N0HD/Wendee+Cutler_edit_-10_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Wendee image II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580749274290-KFYOGU55BFZ1TJPHB9J5/Karen+Dresser_edit_1.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Karen, 66 This coat was made out of denim that came from the Cone Mills, a company here in Greensboro, which made denim for places all over the United States and probably the world. The coat not only pays tribute to the Cones, who are still a part of our community, but also to upcycling by preventing these scraps of fabric from ending up in the dump, a prayerful act in itself. Coats, as object, have a lot of significance in Judaism, such as Joseph’s coat, the robes of the High Priest, and other garments that people put on to change their identities or their fortunes. The wearing of coats, for some, is still an important part of their Jewish ritual practice, such as the coats worn by men in Ultra-Orthodox communities. There, the coat they wear identifies their Jewish lineage or allegiance to their Rebbe. Women in Jewish text who change garments are usually doing this for disguise—Esther, Tamar, Yudit—among others. This garment is not one of disguise, but rather of enhancement. The symbolic images—birds, flowers, leaves—are inspired by my readings of the world of nature in Tehillim, the Psalms; the painted-on phrases such as “create your dreams,” “pray for wisdom”—are prayers of the heart that embody wishes for the wearer and the world, particularly at this time with so much strife and chaos. This coat asks, “How can we, in our time, reach that place, the Holy, Holy, Holy place [referencing the Kedushah, a traditional prayer] spoken by the angels when Isaiah ascended to heaven?” Holy garments, like this, help to facilitate that closeness. I designed this coat with a woman in mind to honor times women did not have an outward-facing spiritual means of conversing with God in public spaces. They weren’t permitted public roles at the Temple as part of the sacred service to God, and their communal interactions with God outside the sanctity of the home were most likely in the places that were outlawed, such as the groves. Putting on a garment that is imbued with this spiritual intention, though it may sound crazy, is like putting on the robes of the priest in ancient times. It gives voice to the prayers of a woman. This coat is substantial, heavy. It impresses upon the wearer the prayers of her heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712658753-7GKBWJ7S4F61NBFV9AIY/Jack+Henza_Edit_-2JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Jack, 29 It rained at our wedding and the chuppah [Jewish wedding canopy] has these rain spots on it because of it. I remember the rabbi looking up to the sky as if to say, “Baruch HaShem / ברוך השם.” So it is. He asked us if we wanted to keep going and when we said, “Yes,” he said, “All right,” and just stood out there with us in the rain. The chuppah in a lot of ways bears marks of something that could have been a blemish on this memory. But frankly, the rain spots make the silk painting and the memory more beautiful. I always knew that I would be married under a chuppah. And I think I can split my Jewish identity into two eras; before and after Hannah and I got married. Aside from its obvious metaphor of coming together to form a household, the chuppah, for me, was also very powerfully about Hannah coming to me and coming to Judaism; finding her spiritual home and really making it her own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580829338149-MTQ02SDCMR8DKAP3O3P9/Trorrie+Epstein_edit_3.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Torrie, 20 I bought this necklace in Tel Aviv when I was on my Birthright* trip. It’s just a silver Star of David, a simple symbol of Judaism. But, having bought it myself in Tel Aviv while on Birthright, it holds a lot of meaning to me. I wear it almost every day. It kind of symbolizes my coming back to my faith. I was raised Jewish. My dad’s side is completely Jewish. My mom’s side, I think, is Catholic but my mom converted. So I have really experienced both sides of religion, but I was raised largely Jewish. Growing up, I was never really around a lot of Jewish kids. My parents would make me go to services and Sunday school and all those things and I didn’t really appreciate it as a child. I always felt like, “Gosh, it’s taking away one of my weekend days.” Since coming back from Birthright, though, I’ve just really connected a lot more with my Jewish side. It’s different because I’m choosing, I’m willingly going back and I’m relearning everything, and with a new set of eyes. I find myself going to services more and just really being more proud of my Jewish self, which is why I wear the necklace so much because it gives me a sense of identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712588283-31ZUVFWACOTX9F4HKZLF/Ellis_edit_2JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Ellis, 30 I never met my grandfather. He passed away before I was born. These are small needlepoint pillows that he made. There are no imperfections. He definitely did it right. And I don’t think that he did other embroidery in his lifetime. The pieces he made are kind of few and far between. This anecdotal piece of him is just kind of funny. The concept or even the act of a man needlepointing pillows in the 1950s is somewhat peculiar. And, I don’t know, the peculiarity of it kind of fills out the gaps of who he was to me. I have only ever heard his voice through Super 8 films and audio recordings. My relationship to the pillows is not a daily observation. It's not a daily connection. And I think that is representative of how I identify as a Jew today. It is sparse. It comes up for me, honestly, through the people who surround me, predominantly Christians. There’s this immediate othering that reminds me. My father grew up Catholic. I don't think he overtly renounced it, but he certainly doesn’t adhere to any tenants of Catholicism. So, growing up, the predominant religion was Judaism. I gave a speech for my B’nai Mitzvah* and the topic was about feeling conflicted in my identity as a Jew situated between these two elements of my family—Catholicism and Judaism. I perceived some divide between my parents. And maybe one way of attributing that was through their differing religious identities. And I’ve carried that with me, in part. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712594030-ZRY4B968OIACN6VC1WC3/EllenHaskel_edit_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Ellen, 44 This bookmark with medieval depictions of the medical angels is a photograph of the actual amulet from the Jewish Museum of Paris. It is an anti-Lilith charm and I found it in my mailbox at work about a month before I had my first child. I was hugely pregnant. It was the very end of the school year. The box was completely cleaned out, except for this orange printed thing. I knew exactly what it was because my field is Jewish mysticism to which these characters belong. And I thought, “Wow, someone has left me a childbirth amulet bookmark!” But no one would own up to leaving it there for me. Still, it felt very significant. It felt like it was a talisman that had materialized out of thin air at exactly the moment I needed it. Only months later did my friend Derek own up to having left it there for me. Only he had no idea what it was. It was just a cool looking bookmark that he thought looked like someone who studies Jewish mysticism would be excited about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712663379-YSZ4KVRD9ZLX4DQ0J234/Gary+Fischer_edit_12_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Gary, 73 My parents bought me this watch for my Bar Mitzvah. It’s a very beautiful Wittnauer Longines watch with a textured gold face. It’s wind up with a small dial and it was my first watch. While I enjoyed wearing it occasionally as a young person, I wear it more frequently now that my parents have passed; especially at certain times of the year, like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when I want to feel close to them. There isn’t a day that I don't think about them and the love of Judaism, family and tzedakah that they instilled in me. They were everything to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712744474-DTKUO7CQQ0JJ4B4T2GFB/Katy+Claussen_edit_1_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Katy, 40 I took this photograph one day when I was walking in the woods and the path that I was walking on split off into two paths. This represents the beginning of my experience of being Jewish. I was not raised Jewish; I was raised in a fairly traditional Christian home. At the time that I found Judaism I don’t think I even realized that I was looking for something different, but I found Judaism and I really fell in love with the tradition, the rituals and the music. So there I was one Easter Sunday about 20 years ago. After a beautiful Easter morning church service, I met up with Geoff, my boyfriend at the time who later became my husband, and he made me matzah brei because it was also Passover. We had had a seder the night before and were planning on being at a second seder that evening. And I thought to myself, “Wow, here it is, this is a moment! Easter Sunday and I am eating matzah brei?!” For almost a year, I had been living in two worlds; I would celebrate Shabbat and then wake up on Sunday morning and go to church. On that Easter Sunday I really felt that I needed to make a choice. I needed to choose one of these paths. And I chose Judaism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580839290274-9RK89B0CCTCCL5SDB5JT/LisaLasovsky_edit_4_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Lisa, 52 My grandfather owned a printing factory in South Africa. He liked his name in lights. And, he liked to publish books. After he had retired and while my father was still working in the business, my grandfather decided to compile a Haggadah. After the first two or three pages nothing correlates in the Hebrew and English. It’s very hard to follow. But this was the Haggadah that he made with his name, Solomon Fedler, on it. When my first cousin, his first grandchild, was getting married, we had a family photograph taken of the 10 grandchildren together with him. He took that picture and made a special cover for all of us and one for each of his children. Each copy had our name printed carefully in gold with this photograph of him and his grandchildren. And we all still use the same Haggadah. I always use my own special one, with the special cover, with my name in it that he inscribed at the front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580749196501-X3LZT7DXPIQLAVC2MYQE/GeorgeElswhere_edite_.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - George, 39 I grew up in Atlanta, but my Southern identity is wrapped up in coming to Greensboro for Thanksgiving. All of the family from around the South—Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina—would gather. Then we’d all go downtown and hang out at my grandmother’s store. In the context of my Jewish life, that store is really what I grew up with as an object of objects in my Jewish identity and certainly in my relationship to Greensboro. When my grandmother was alive, I’d go and play and help sell hats and then dig through boxes and explore all these objects. After she died, we all kept going there. So, in that context the store is an object not just a site. It is an object of memory of her. It’s a direct relationship to my whole family’s history, to the reason that the family has been in the South and it’s an inkling of Jewish history in the South. The early Elsewhere* experience, in which it really felt like a storybook story that I was unfolding with close friends, changed over time as it became an organization with programs and residencies and conceptual tenets that organized it and in some ways created distance between me as an individual and me as a kind of node in the story of the grandson who took over the space. But it’s still my grandmother’s store, and it’s deeply a part of our history that we’re still, as a family, invested in telling. * Elsewhere is a contemporary museum and artist residency that exists in the former thrift store. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712722507-3F8QSVN2ESRH6AC54CYF/Amanda+Mbuvi_edit_4_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Amanda, 43 I grew up Jewish in the Black Church. My mom is African American. My dad is Ashkenazi Jewish. I grew up in Columbia, Maryland an only child in our interracial and interreligious family. My dad is not religious, so it was mainly through his parents that I had my connection to being Jewish. My grandparents observed the holidays, went to synagogue, kept a kosher home, lit candles on Shabbat etcetera. Elements of Jewish practice were strong for them and participating in the community was significant. This TaNaCh (Hebrew Bible), which belonged to them, fascinated me growing up. Whenever I would visit my grandparents in Cleveland, I liked to look at and read and think about it. It connected me with something ancient and beautiful. Judaism was something I identified with very strongly and was drawn to as a kid and I always wanted it to be more a part of my life than it was. My parents got married in 1970 when interracial marriage was barely legal. My mom was interested in exploring my Jewish heritage and she was basically told that her children would never be accepted in the Jewish community. So that was that. What that left for me was the process of finding my way into Jewish community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580711762929-40IV3CC8JCOQA6OVVB1V/Hannah+Henza_Edit_-3JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Hannah, 29 We went to the Sisterhood Gift Shop and said, “We have no money, but we want to start our home on the right foot. And we really want our mezuzah to reflect our values.” We found everything at the gift shop to be super ornate; brass or gold or silver. They were beautiful. Really lovely. Just not us. It wasn’t the version of Jewish life that we were interested in manifesting in our home. And we almost left. As we were walking out the door, this wooden mezuzah caught our eyes. We asked the lady behind the counter about it and she said, ”Oh, it’s olive wood. It comes from Jerusalem. It’s nothing. It’s nothing.” And we said, ”No, it’s everything.” I mean really, we immediately knew that this is what we wanted on our home. We went home and we had this whole afternoon of putting up our first mezuzah and it was this very special moment for us. That was a turning point. We began celebrating Shabbat more regularly and that moment became the foundation for how we then went on to plan our wedding and plan our lives together. Years later, when we were thinking of building our tiny house, there would be days when we would walk in and we would look at that mezuzah, and we’d say, “This is us. This is why we do what we do.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714071842-0SN4S6909ZDL9RYDSKL2/JaimeBrown_edit_26.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Jaimie (Aviva), I was cleaning up a large stack of PJ Library* books in my house one day shortly after my fourth child was born. We’d been getting them for four years already for our three other kids. We have quite a collection. As I was looking through them, I saw fair-skinned Jewish child after fair-skinned Jewish child. One of the things that my rabbis stress is that the Jewish people are not homogenous. They come in all colors and ethnicities. There are Chinese Jews, Japanese Jews, Indian Jews, Black Jews. I was looking at the books and thinking, “But I don’t see that here. I see one specific type of Jewish child or Jewish family represented and it doesn’t look like mine.” I went in search of books with Jews of color and I found a couple. There’s one called Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas. She is half-Jewish and half-Indian. They make dosas for Hanukkah rather than latkes. That was cool. But still, illustrations are of a fairly light-skinned Jewish girl. I’m like, “You know what? If there’s not a book out there, I’m going to write one. ” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580713944052-498S297L0M5C4LBXQIRB/Betsy+Gamburg_edit_1.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Betsy, 67 This is my first menorah. I acquired it as a child without much sense of what being Jewish meant or was even about. My grandmother was the Director of Membership at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Philadelphia, and I remember they had a Purim carnival one year. Strangely enough it was at that Purim carnival that I saw this menorah, which is for a different holiday altogether. I was about 5 or 6. My grandmother saw how much I had fallen in love with it, so she purchased it for me. Every Hanukkah I would light birthday candles [not Hanukkah candles] in it. I’ve kept it with me all these years. We bring it out every Hanukkah along with our many other menorahs, and I still light it with birthday candles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714008297-IFGC934N56258FS1VYFF/Emily_edit_6_jg.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Emily, 34 All of my fostering of being an artist and a creative person comes from my relationship with my grandmother. She’s about 84 now and lives in New York City. She really downplays the significance of her life as an artist and her art, though she has many stories of artists she knew in New York and she even shared a studio with Eva Hesse. She’s never gifted me any of her art except for this piece. Though her life as an artist has directly influenced my desire to support artists and artist communities. There’s something there for me at the intersection of art and Judaism. That is how I come to Judaism—through creativity and innovation. I’m a systems thinker and a lot of my creativity comes out in how I organize and curate things or ideas, like literally flow charts or worksheets that allow everyone to be a part. That systems thinking comes from my grandma too. A lot of my domestic habits really mirror my grandmother’s, where everything has a purpose and an intention. Literally, if you go into my grandma’s house, and lift things, the object’s story will be written on the bottom. I’ve gotten jewelry from her that details where she bought it, what year, etcetera. And they’re not boring details. It’s like, “I rode a camel across the desert in 1963 and purchased this from a merchant in the market.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580839306788-IK6N6SATUN4P4PUO1S0B/Jenny+Schultz_JG_1.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Jenny, 45 This was hanging on my grandparents’ wall. They were both Holocaust survivors. So, they had a couple of family things, but not much. I spent so much time at their house in Rego Park in Queens, New York. And I remember looking at this as a kid and just kind of staring at it and memorizing the different names of the tribes—like giving some kind of order to something. It’s not the best rendering ever of the Chagall windows. It’s a little hard to see what’s going on in them. And it’s kind of made in a flimsy way with red velvet and stuff. It’s kitchy. But I like that. It’s more that it was from my grandparents’ house and reminds me of them. They were people who just cared about their Judaism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714164222-VVMOICIMYF1I89IGG9OZ/Rebecca+Gideon_raw_4JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Rebecca, 45 When my youngest child was nine months old, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was 32 and had three young kids. We were part of a very special Jewish community, Olam Tikvah, in Fairfax, Virginia. I needed help with everything. I needed a volunteer manager. My best friend stepped in and organized anyone who wanted to bring meals, help out with the kids or anything else. It was such an incredible experience to feel so lifted up and cared for by the community. I remember the food most; certain meals or special foods that people made. Like a friend who made cake with white and blue icing on Yom Ha'atzmaut. It is a funny detail because I blocked out a lot of the other stuff. After I was well, I realized there were certain objects in my house that I needed to get rid of because they were weighed down for me with the sadness and the loss, more than the happiness of being better. So, I threw out all of the scarves that I’d covered my head with. I threw out my sheitel. But the one thing that I kept was a piece of Tupperware. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714058741-AJDM6JYO1EEQP5EL105K/EricaProcton_edit_5.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Erica, 57 “This Haggadah was published by your great-grandfather as a second edition in 1960. Maybe you will study German in later years and understand much about Judaism. Remembrance of seder 1972. Oma to my great-grandchild, Erica.” My great-grandfather, Siegfried Guggenheim, who came from a long lineage of German Jews, compiled this Haggadah while still living in Germany. It was important to him to make one that was like a work of art, that expressed his love of Judaism, and that other people, not just our family, would use and enjoy. He commissioned all of the artwork and had it published in Germany in 1927. He and my great-grandmother brought it over from Germany when they immigrated to the U.S. in 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714331859-5RREAUZ72MS3WPBLTLW4/Victoria+Carlin_edit_4.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Victoria, 59 A car pulled up to the bus and detonated a bomb. Everyone to the left and right of Eyal was killed. Eyal survived. Miraculously. Eyal’s tragedy affected our family in many ways. I couldn’t sleep at night. Not out of anger, but out of fear. There is an existential threat to Israel daily. One day we could say, “Oh! Tel Aviv was the Paris of the Middle East and now it is gone.” Still no one wants peace more than Eyal. No one believes more in the Palestinian Arabs and Israelis and Israeli Arabs and all of the demographics that live in Israel and the need we have as Jews to continue to strive for the most humane way, the best way, to treat each other. I learn that from Eyal all of the time. But for me as an American Jew or a Jewish American I was occupied with the questions: “How do I serve Israel? How do I collate all of these things that happened? How do I support Israel after this and after having made aliyah and living now in the United States?” The answer was AIPAC. Which is a bipartisan organization that supports the American–Israel relationship. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable because of politics. I lobby Congress, and sometimes I take them to Israel and talk to them about things that are helping Israel and that will strengthen not only Israel but America, too, by advancing humanity, human rights and equality for both countries. This is the work that allows me to sleep at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714016462-NYX4L7SKK3KE2QYV7GHI/Cody+Sercy_edit_1.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Cody, 24 This mezuzah was the first thing that I bought when I knew I wanted to convert to Judaism. I was 18 and I bought it online. I think there’s this idea often that an object has to have meaning because it has history, right? Like, “This was my great-grandmother’s kiddush cup,” or, “the Haggadah they brought over from the war,” or, “from the old country,” or whatever. But I think for me, what I really like about the mezuzah is that it was the moment where Judaism became my own, and I could claim it in a way that A.) was significant to me because of this budding independence that occurs when you’re 18 and a freshly minted adult and B.) it was a moment of my own volition. I wasn’t in a service. There wasn’t a rabbi. I was taking the tradition into my own hands in a way that made it my own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580762016293-RV4OVOW2FDMOUUVQOCKJ/MarylinChandler_edit_4.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Marilyn, 62 Passover seders were always in my nana and papa’s living room in Queens. We would pull the table from the dining room, where the breakfront was, into the living room so that we could expand for more people. Then the Passover china would come out of the china closet, the breakfront, where it is today now in my home. And so every time I open the china closet, where I also keep our Judaica for many occasions, I smell my grandparents. It’s like this whiff of Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Erev Yom Kippur. It’s pungent and delicious and it just smells from strudel and cookies, chicken soup, potato blini—these sort of wonderful smells from nana’s kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580762046465-N3ZLDODRJWCETFN5T9LO/Marilyn+Chandler_edit_20_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Marilyn image II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714208329-3I3YSDBJYYPNSPMEJWX5/RHodes+Laflin_+edit.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Rhodes, 4 It’s a menorah for candles that you have on Hanukkah. I made this at my other school. It’s Jewish. It reminds me of being Jewish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714246424-NT7VN831TNTAW1RIGLBP/Sam+Cone_edit_1.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Sam, 38 I have known about this document since I was very young. I don’t even remember the first time I encountered it. It’s been referenced repeatedly throughout my life. And an awful lot of other people know about this letter too because it’s referred to with some frequency around discussions of the hospital or other kinds of philanthropic initiatives. So, it’s just kind of pervasive and it doesn’t necessarily feel like it belongs to me. It doesn’t feel like my object. But as much as any object is tied to Judaism for me, this is. It’s more than any song, more than any ritual. It’s tied to why I’m in this place to begin with, why my family is in this place; because of our Jewish roots, because we did not have access to human and civil rights where we were. The particular language of this letter informs the work that I do in town addressing political, civil and human rights. It is something that I consistently turn back to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714259877-STQMYD9FPTFVLDKC42M1/StaceyKrim_edit_13.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Stacey, 39 Shortly before my high school years, my family moved from Greenville, South Carolina to eastern North Carolina where my father had taken a new job. I would not out myself as Jewish publicly or meet another Jewish person outside of my family until I arrived to Greensboro in my 20s. A few months after moving to eastern North Carolina there was a KKK march within 5 miles of our house. I became aware pretty early on that it was very dangerous to be Jewish… … My father had gotten me a Star of David when I was young, but it immediately identified me as Jewish and I didn’t feel safe wearing it. I had worn it a little bit when we lived in South Carolina, but I never wore it after that. Only later when I moved to Greensboro for graduate school and began to meet other Jews again and to find some comfort in my own identity did I want something Jewish, but discreetly Jewish, to wear. . . . . . A few years later I was tasked with visiting a very temperamental donor who lived on the side of a mountain just outside of Asheville, North Carolina. He had been an assistant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera. He was dying. And he was angry about a lot of things in his life. I needed to go and view his collection to make a judgment about acquiring it for the UNCG Archives. As I arrived with my colleague, I got out of the van and was standing about 10 feet away when the donor opened the door to his outdoor studio to greet us. He saw this mezuzah pendant and he knew immediately what it was. He opened his arm with great passion as if to say, “Oh my God!” Turns out he loved the Jewish people. He was a gay man who had been adopted into a rural South Carolina farming family. He had been a natural pianist and very feminine and for this he had been bullied mercilessly to the point of several suicide attempts in his youth. When he finally made it into the music world, the Jews in the business took him in. I was terrified when he recognized this pendant. It was like being outed. It was the first time in my entire life that anyone had ever reacted positively to my being a Jew. I later understood that what the Jewish musicians had done for him, by welcoming him in a way that he had never experienced, he had done for me. Sadly, he died before I could tell him that. My father wore the mezuzah pendant that I now wear. I inherited it from him when he died in 2018. I added the Star of David a few months later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714286509-IBLMISNP8XVYYD8ZDQIF/SydneyMiller_edit_6_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Sydney, 22 As a kid growing up in Connecticut I would go to Temple on Rosh Hashanah, and after the service they had this table set up with a bunch of different fruits, especially apples, and a bowl of honey sticks. I would always take the honey sticks and eat them. I wasn’t very interested in going to Temple. I don’t even remember the name. But eating these honey sticks was the one thing that made it fun and entertaining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714328544-Z5L8MQVQKC8PA8E237CJ/SusanSiegel_edit_13.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Susan, 55 I inherited this painting from my grandparents. They weren’t particularly religious, but they had this painting in their home. It hung in their living room. From the time that I could talk, I used to go and speak to the “rabbi” in this painting. I would share my thoughts and feelings with him without any prompting from my parents or grandparents. Before I even knew what a rabbi really was, I somehow knew that this was a special person that I could confide in. I was told that I called him “my rabbi.” My grandparents were tickled by that and they wanted my parents to know that when I grew up and had a home of my own, the painting would be mine. I find it so interesting that, as a little girl, I intuited that I wanted more Jewishly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714298437-E7OEVPHYMI6ACALB93OG/Todd+Gillen_edit_3_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Todd, 28 I’ve had this for as long as I can remember. Growing up I kept it in my room. I would mess with it occasionally. But since I became an adult, I’ve always had it in my car. Always. It’s a powerful protection talisman type of thing for my vehicle. I don’t believe that the object itself has any specific connection to God more so than I do. It’s just a feeling. It's always kept me safe in the cars that I've driven. I've never gotten in an accident or anything. It’s like a lucky charm specifically for the car. When I was in high school, I used to keep it in the steering wheel. There was like a place where I could stick this bottom end in the steering wheel, and it would just sit there. Now I keep it in the glove box with all of my stuff. It’s probably the only thing of a Jewish tradition that lives in there. And if it were taken out of my car I wouldn’t feel good.* It wouldn’t feel right. You know what I’m saying? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580716696177-38F2IYHUKMIX008RT7LY/Lennie+Gerber_edit_32.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Lennie, 84 Pearl and I were together for 52 years. We fell in love in 1966 and started living together on June 2nd that same year. I had never dated a Jewish woman. I had dated Jewish boys before I knew I was a lesbian, but never a Jewish woman until I met Pearl. And though my mother did not approve of our relationship for many years, I said to her, “But mom, I married a Jew. You always said that was the only thing you cared about.” I . . . Anyway, at that time there were no weddings for gays and lesbians. So we never thought about it. But in 2013 the Supreme Court upheld the United States vs Edie Windsor case and made same-sex marriage legal in most states across the U.S. This changed everything for us. . . . . . Before the ceremony, on the day of our wedding, we went into the rabbi’s office to sign the ketubah with two witnesses. The rabbi handed me a pen and I said, “Well, before I sign this, I want to know something. If I want a Jewish divorce, will I have to get a get [an official Jewish divorce document]?” The shocked rabbi said that yes I would. “Ok, I just wanted to make sure that I’m having a legal Jewish wedding.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580839279123-8DJUZVO4A7C8C0WMPA7Z/Annorah_edit_-1_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Annorah, 7th grade “It’s yours and if you’re alive to keep it however long you want, nobody can ever take it or the memories you have of it away from you.” Everyone gets a siddur at the end of first grade. Sometime in the year your parents come in and they decorate your siddur, and they put your name on it. It’s really important to me, because you know, there’s no other cover like this in the world because my mom specifically made it for me. And it’s a really special thing. Even though it’s really small, it means a lot to me and it’s gotten me through some really rough times. I don’t think another siddur could ever replace it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580716598704-ZQWD0AM0USTRC61TWXI4/Jason+Cathcart_edit_3_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Jason, 44 This cheesy coffee mug with my name on it was gifted to me at the first USY regional conference I staffed in August of 1998 on the Space Coast. I was there working with a group of teens on leadership development and it was the first time I had traveled with teens as a professional Jewish educator. I learned a lot about the youth, because that’s what happens when you spend four days with teenagers—you get to know them pretty well. But I also learned a lot about myself, and my own work style, my learning style and my teaching style. It was a great way to start this whole adventure of being a Jewish educator which I’ve now been doing for half of my life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580716799588-5902L29TDGEKKELDEPYE/Adam+Carlin_edit_8.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Adam, 30 I inherited a space-stamp collection from my father that I continue to add to. I’m not a practicing Jew in a religious sense of the word, but what I do really like about Judaism is the connection to my ancestors, to the ingrained experiences of my ancestors that exist in my DNA. I love to think about the way I look or how tall I am as a direct dialogue with my ancestors. And my dad represents that for me. My dad’s a Trekkie. He loves science fiction and so do I. I got that from him. The sign, “Live long and prosper,” comes from Star Trek but it is also part of our ancestral inheritance because we are Cohens [descendants of the High Priests from the ancient Temple in Jerusalem]. That’s our last name. At my wedding, not too long ago, my dad gave a toast and it was a Star Trek-themed toast. Whenever we sign off and say goodbye, we always do the Cohen / Star Trek sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580717347597-BYNDZZJXAMPAC28RRESB/Richard+Lerner_edit_1.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Rich, 62 This was purchased on my family’s first trip to Israel in the ’70s. That was the first time I went to Israel. My parents were in a jewelry store. I think it was Swed in Jerusalem. And the man in the store said, “I have something special in the back that I’d like to show you. ” And he brought this piece out and showed it to them and told them that it was very old and that it was used by people that wanted to practice Judaism but were in a situation where that was not possible, or it couldn’t be done openly. The way it was told to me is that it was designed to be able to sit on the shelf and not draw attention like many [other] pieces [of Judaica] would. He suggested that it was possibly from the Spanish Inquisition, but he did not have a way to confirm that. I’ve always just appreciated things of historical significance. And this item, the whole patina of it, and the fact that it was really used, and by people that wanted to practice Judaism but couldn’t do that openly, has a great deal of significance to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580762090023-8W963MGWYHEA2IT5I9JE/Rich+Lerner_edit_13_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Rich image II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580749275526-HPK2L4Z47UFN8EQX0NDZ/Andra_Sophia_edit_5.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Sophia, 10 & Elena, 8 I heard some girls in my Girl Scouts troop talking about a buddy bench, and I felt like that would be a fun thing to bring to our school and just call it a Mensch Bench because we were learning about how to be a mensch in second grade—doing good deeds and being nice to other people. So if someone feels left out and lonely, they could sit on the bench and then someone could come over if they see them on the bench and ask them if they want to play. It would be like a sign. If they’re sitting on the bench, that would mean, “I want someone to play with. I’m lonely. I feel left out.” It’s a mitzvah to be kind to somebody and play with them if they have nobody to play with. I wanted it to be pink. HOT PINK. At the time, in second grade, I felt like hot pink was a really bright and kind color ‘cause it’s like love. Red and pink are love colors. And it was like spreading the love from one person to another. That was really important to me at that time. But the carpenter really wanted to preserve the wood. And it’s still beautiful with Mensch Bench carved into it. Now [three years later] the more it’s been used, the more friendships have been built. People feel less isolated or lonely and they have less of a need for the Mensch Bench. Now, just two friends go hang out on it together. It takes some bravery to go sit on the bench if you’re feeling lonely. But you could still tell if someone actually feels sad and needs someone to talk to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580749190372-NGUN3H58QAQF8KHJNCS2/Tracy+Simon_edit_1.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Tracy, 50 I grew up in Brooklyn, New York always knowing that I was Jewish. We were always told we were Jewish and the neighborhood was 98% Jewish. Everybody was Jewish. We weren’t a practicing type of community, but everybody in the building knew when the holidays came. You would stay home from school, put on your nice clothes, and go downstairs and go walking. Where we were walking didn’t matter. We knew who we were. There were a couple of girls in my class named Mary Ellen and I said, “Mommy, why can’t I be named Mary Ellen? That’s a beautiful name.” And she said, “Well, you can’t be Mary Ellen cause we’re not Irish/Catholic.” I never was wearing my Judaism on the outside. It was always pretty much on the inside and with friends and family. And then a great aunt of mine had gone on a trip and she bought this small gold Jewish star, one for me and one for my sister. I was about eight. And I was so excited because I now felt like I could be Jewish on the outside. And there I was suddenly, wearing my Judaism on the outside. So now strangers could see that too. And you know, with my kids it's funny here, especially at Christmas. People would say to my kids when they were young, “Oh, what is Santa Claus going to get you?” or “Be good for Santa.” My daughter would ask, “Do we look Christian?” As they got older they would answer, “Oh, we don’t get presents from Santa Claus.” And the looks we would get from the cashiers! Like they were mortified, thinking, either I’m a terrible mother or dirt poor. So now I have to stop the whole line to explain, “We’re Jewish. We do Hanukkah. Don’t worry. They’re fine. They get stuff.” I guess that’s the South for you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580749190615-ON8GLV1KU2W6LCSQNYF7/Anne+Parsons_edit_6.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Anne, 41 I’m Jewish and my partner is not. In 2009, when we married, it was not legal for two women to get married in many congregations—not according to civil law, nor according to Jewish law. The rabbi at the time of the Reform congregation I had grown up in and that my family had belonged to since the 1930s, would marry two Jewish women or two Jewish men, but he would not marry a Jew and a non-Jew. As it turned out, however, the cantor from that synagogue was out as a gay man and he was willing to break some rules to make this happen. He married us in a backyard ceremony with 100 of our friends and family. We chose an intentionally Jewish ceremony and we have a distinctly Jewish household. Signing a ketubah (a legally binding Jewish marriage contract) with our families as witnesses was an important part of our Jewish wedding ritual. That contract was the only thing that legally bound our marriage. There was no marriage license. No other avenue for us to get married. This was it. So, for me, the ketubah was the only thing we had. It’s kind of the heartbeat of our marriage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580716780958-HSDA958RDI7YXMSSKPXG/Nathan+Hampel_edit_4_JG.jpg Recent Exhibition: 36+2 - Nathan, 8th grade One day in 5th grade, when I was a new kid at school and didn’t have very many friends, I decided I was going to try to trade football cards so that I would get better at talking to people. There was this one really popular guy who was incredibly nice. I think he pretty much encompasses what Judaism is all about: being kind to others. He was so generous. He came up to me as I was struggling to talk to people and he said, “Do you want to trade some football cards with me?” And I’m like, “Yes!” He even gave me one of his favorite cards, Reggie Wayne Unleashed, which is pretty rare. A lot of things in Judaism derive from kindness. So if you don’t understand the religion, or you’re trying out Judaism and you’re having a problem, I’ve found the best way to do that is to step back and look at everything in a different way. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1616885533058-6A371OR4LBHCRIOM534W/IMG_20200320_104256.jpg 36+2 Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580711546026-IH4WOH7SNFY0MGMSMGMZ/Ezra_edit_10.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Ezra, 4 It’s called a tiger’s eye. It was grandma’s rock. Something that I have that was hers. It’s special because my mom likes it a lot too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712778816-QLBRZ1SAQ4RJPAVAU97X/Wendee+Cutler_edit_17_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Wendee, 63 I grew up in Sacramento and my mom’s family was in the Bay area. Still, we spent every holiday together. Every Passover, every Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Thanksgiving and even Christmas Day we spent with my mom’s sister, her husband, their three kids and my grandparents. And frequently, my grandmother’s brother with his kids and grandchildren were part of it too. The first year we lived in Greensboro was the only time in my life I had not been with family on Thanksgiving. Before any meal, we always served chopped liver and creamed herring. I think it’s a Jewish thing. I would watch it being made when I was young. And right before I moved here my mother said, “You need to stand right next to me and watch how I do this so that you’ll have the recipe and know what to do going forward. ” And I did. Every time I bring out the wooden bowl and hocher I think about my grandmother and mother, the dinners they prepared and all of those family gatherings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580762053567-7Z1ADNS2BEVW7I12N0HD/Wendee+Cutler_edit_-10_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Wendee image II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580749274290-KFYOGU55BFZ1TJPHB9J5/Karen+Dresser_edit_1.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Karen, 66 This coat was made out of denim that came from the Cone Mills, a company here in Greensboro, which made denim for places all over the United States and probably the world. The coat not only pays tribute to the Cones, who are still a part of our community, but also to upcycling by preventing these scraps of fabric from ending up in the dump, a prayerful act in itself. Coats, as object, have a lot of significance in Judaism, such as Joseph’s coat, the robes of the High Priest, and other garments that people put on to change their identities or their fortunes. The wearing of coats, for some, is still an important part of their Jewish ritual practice, such as the coats worn by men in Ultra-Orthodox communities. There, the coat they wear identifies their Jewish lineage or allegiance to their Rebbe. Women in Jewish text who change garments are usually doing this for disguise—Esther, Tamar, Yudit—among others. This garment is not one of disguise, but rather of enhancement. The symbolic images—birds, flowers, leaves—are inspired by my readings of the world of nature in Tehillim, the Psalms; the painted-on phrases such as “create your dreams,” “pray for wisdom”—are prayers of the heart that embody wishes for the wearer and the world, particularly at this time with so much strife and chaos. This coat asks, “How can we, in our time, reach that place, the Holy, Holy, Holy place [referencing the Kedushah, a traditional prayer] spoken by the angels when Isaiah ascended to heaven?” Holy garments, like this, help to facilitate that closeness. I designed this coat with a woman in mind to honor times women did not have an outward-facing spiritual means of conversing with God in public spaces. They weren’t permitted public roles at the Temple as part of the sacred service to God, and their communal interactions with God outside the sanctity of the home were most likely in the places that were outlawed, such as the groves. Putting on a garment that is imbued with this spiritual intention, though it may sound crazy, is like putting on the robes of the priest in ancient times. It gives voice to the prayers of a woman. This coat is substantial, heavy. It impresses upon the wearer the prayers of her heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712658753-7GKBWJ7S4F61NBFV9AIY/Jack+Henza_Edit_-2JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Jack, 29 It rained at our wedding and the chuppah [Jewish wedding canopy] has these rain spots on it because of it. I remember the rabbi looking up to the sky as if to say, “Baruch HaShem / ברוך השם.” So it is. He asked us if we wanted to keep going and when we said, “Yes,” he said, “All right,” and just stood out there with us in the rain. The chuppah in a lot of ways bears marks of something that could have been a blemish on this memory. But frankly, the rain spots make the silk painting and the memory more beautiful. I always knew that I would be married under a chuppah. And I think I can split my Jewish identity into two eras; before and after Hannah and I got married. Aside from its obvious metaphor of coming together to form a household, the chuppah, for me, was also very powerfully about Hannah coming to me and coming to Judaism; finding her spiritual home and really making it her own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580829338149-MTQ02SDCMR8DKAP3O3P9/Trorrie+Epstein_edit_3.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Torrie, 20 I bought this necklace in Tel Aviv when I was on my Birthright* trip. It’s just a silver Star of David, a simple symbol of Judaism. But, having bought it myself in Tel Aviv while on Birthright, it holds a lot of meaning to me. I wear it almost every day. It kind of symbolizes my coming back to my faith. I was raised Jewish. My dad’s side is completely Jewish. My mom’s side, I think, is Catholic but my mom converted. So I have really experienced both sides of religion, but I was raised largely Jewish. Growing up, I was never really around a lot of Jewish kids. My parents would make me go to services and Sunday school and all those things and I didn’t really appreciate it as a child. I always felt like, “Gosh, it’s taking away one of my weekend days.” Since coming back from Birthright, though, I’ve just really connected a lot more with my Jewish side. It’s different because I’m choosing, I’m willingly going back and I’m relearning everything, and with a new set of eyes. I find myself going to services more and just really being more proud of my Jewish self, which is why I wear the necklace so much because it gives me a sense of identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712588283-31ZUVFWACOTX9F4HKZLF/Ellis_edit_2JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Ellis, 30 I never met my grandfather. He passed away before I was born. These are small needlepoint pillows that he made. There are no imperfections. He definitely did it right. And I don’t think that he did other embroidery in his lifetime. The pieces he made are kind of few and far between. This anecdotal piece of him is just kind of funny. The concept or even the act of a man needlepointing pillows in the 1950s is somewhat peculiar. And, I don’t know, the peculiarity of it kind of fills out the gaps of who he was to me. I have only ever heard his voice through Super 8 films and audio recordings. My relationship to the pillows is not a daily observation. It's not a daily connection. And I think that is representative of how I identify as a Jew today. It is sparse. It comes up for me, honestly, through the people who surround me, predominantly Christians. There’s this immediate othering that reminds me. My father grew up Catholic. I don't think he overtly renounced it, but he certainly doesn’t adhere to any tenants of Catholicism. So, growing up, the predominant religion was Judaism. I gave a speech for my B’nai Mitzvah* and the topic was about feeling conflicted in my identity as a Jew situated between these two elements of my family—Catholicism and Judaism. I perceived some divide between my parents. And maybe one way of attributing that was through their differing religious identities. And I’ve carried that with me, in part. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712594030-ZRY4B968OIACN6VC1WC3/EllenHaskel_edit_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Ellen, 44 This bookmark with medieval depictions of the medical angels is a photograph of the actual amulet from the Jewish Museum of Paris. It is an anti-Lilith charm and I found it in my mailbox at work about a month before I had my first child. I was hugely pregnant. It was the very end of the school year. The box was completely cleaned out, except for this orange printed thing. I knew exactly what it was because my field is Jewish mysticism to which these characters belong. And I thought, “Wow, someone has left me a childbirth amulet bookmark!” But no one would own up to leaving it there for me. Still, it felt very significant. It felt like it was a talisman that had materialized out of thin air at exactly the moment I needed it. Only months later did my friend Derek own up to having left it there for me. Only he had no idea what it was. It was just a cool looking bookmark that he thought looked like someone who studies Jewish mysticism would be excited about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712663379-YSZ4KVRD9ZLX4DQ0J234/Gary+Fischer_edit_12_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Gary, 73 My parents bought me this watch for my Bar Mitzvah. It’s a very beautiful Wittnauer Longines watch with a textured gold face. It’s wind up with a small dial and it was my first watch. While I enjoyed wearing it occasionally as a young person, I wear it more frequently now that my parents have passed; especially at certain times of the year, like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when I want to feel close to them. There isn’t a day that I don't think about them and the love of Judaism, family and tzedakah that they instilled in me. They were everything to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712744474-DTKUO7CQQ0JJ4B4T2GFB/Katy+Claussen_edit_1_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Katy, 40 I took this photograph one day when I was walking in the woods and the path that I was walking on split off into two paths. This represents the beginning of my experience of being Jewish. I was not raised Jewish; I was raised in a fairly traditional Christian home. At the time that I found Judaism I don’t think I even realized that I was looking for something different, but I found Judaism and I really fell in love with the tradition, the rituals and the music. So there I was one Easter Sunday about 20 years ago. After a beautiful Easter morning church service, I met up with Geoff, my boyfriend at the time who later became my husband, and he made me matzah brei because it was also Passover. We had had a seder the night before and were planning on being at a second seder that evening. And I thought to myself, “Wow, here it is, this is a moment! Easter Sunday and I am eating matzah brei?!” For almost a year, I had been living in two worlds; I would celebrate Shabbat and then wake up on Sunday morning and go to church. On that Easter Sunday I really felt that I needed to make a choice. I needed to choose one of these paths. And I chose Judaism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580839290274-9RK89B0CCTCCL5SDB5JT/LisaLasovsky_edit_4_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Lisa, 52 My grandfather owned a printing factory in South Africa. He liked his name in lights. And, he liked to publish books. After he had retired and while my father was still working in the business, my grandfather decided to compile a Haggadah. After the first two or three pages nothing correlates in the Hebrew and English. It’s very hard to follow. But this was the Haggadah that he made with his name, Solomon Fedler, on it. When my first cousin, his first grandchild, was getting married, we had a family photograph taken of the 10 grandchildren together with him. He took that picture and made a special cover for all of us and one for each of his children. Each copy had our name printed carefully in gold with this photograph of him and his grandchildren. And we all still use the same Haggadah. I always use my own special one, with the special cover, with my name in it that he inscribed at the front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580749196501-X3LZT7DXPIQLAVC2MYQE/GeorgeElswhere_edite_.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - George, 39 I grew up in Atlanta, but my Southern identity is wrapped up in coming to Greensboro for Thanksgiving. All of the family from around the South—Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina—would gather. Then we’d all go downtown and hang out at my grandmother’s store. In the context of my Jewish life, that store is really what I grew up with as an object of objects in my Jewish identity and certainly in my relationship to Greensboro. When my grandmother was alive, I’d go and play and help sell hats and then dig through boxes and explore all these objects. After she died, we all kept going there. So, in that context the store is an object not just a site. It is an object of memory of her. It’s a direct relationship to my whole family’s history, to the reason that the family has been in the South and it’s an inkling of Jewish history in the South. The early Elsewhere* experience, in which it really felt like a storybook story that I was unfolding with close friends, changed over time as it became an organization with programs and residencies and conceptual tenets that organized it and in some ways created distance between me as an individual and me as a kind of node in the story of the grandson who took over the space. But it’s still my grandmother’s store, and it’s deeply a part of our history that we’re still, as a family, invested in telling. * Elsewhere is a contemporary museum and artist residency that exists in the former thrift store. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580712722507-3F8QSVN2ESRH6AC54CYF/Amanda+Mbuvi_edit_4_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Amanda, 43 I grew up Jewish in the Black Church. My mom is African American. My dad is Ashkenazi Jewish. I grew up in Columbia, Maryland an only child in our interracial and interreligious family. My dad is not religious, so it was mainly through his parents that I had my connection to being Jewish. My grandparents observed the holidays, went to synagogue, kept a kosher home, lit candles on Shabbat etcetera. Elements of Jewish practice were strong for them and participating in the community was significant. This TaNaCh (Hebrew Bible), which belonged to them, fascinated me growing up. Whenever I would visit my grandparents in Cleveland, I liked to look at and read and think about it. It connected me with something ancient and beautiful. Judaism was something I identified with very strongly and was drawn to as a kid and I always wanted it to be more a part of my life than it was. My parents got married in 1970 when interracial marriage was barely legal. My mom was interested in exploring my Jewish heritage and she was basically told that her children would never be accepted in the Jewish community. So that was that. What that left for me was the process of finding my way into Jewish community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580711762929-40IV3CC8JCOQA6OVVB1V/Hannah+Henza_Edit_-3JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Hannah, 29 We went to the Sisterhood Gift Shop and said, “We have no money, but we want to start our home on the right foot. And we really want our mezuzah to reflect our values.” We found everything at the gift shop to be super ornate; brass or gold or silver. They were beautiful. Really lovely. Just not us. It wasn’t the version of Jewish life that we were interested in manifesting in our home. And we almost left. As we were walking out the door, this wooden mezuzah caught our eyes. We asked the lady behind the counter about it and she said, ”Oh, it’s olive wood. It comes from Jerusalem. It’s nothing. It’s nothing.” And we said, ”No, it’s everything.” I mean really, we immediately knew that this is what we wanted on our home. We went home and we had this whole afternoon of putting up our first mezuzah and it was this very special moment for us. That was a turning point. We began celebrating Shabbat more regularly and that moment became the foundation for how we then went on to plan our wedding and plan our lives together. Years later, when we were thinking of building our tiny house, there would be days when we would walk in and we would look at that mezuzah, and we’d say, “This is us. This is why we do what we do.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714071842-0SN4S6909ZDL9RYDSKL2/JaimeBrown_edit_26.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Jaimie (Aviva), 33 I was cleaning up a large stack of PJ Library* books in my house one day shortly after my fourth child was born. We’d been getting them for four years already for our three other kids. We have quite a collection. As I was looking through them, I saw fair-skinned Jewish child after fair-skinned Jewish child. One of the things that my rabbis stress is that the Jewish people are not homogenous. They come in all colors and ethnicities. There are Chinese Jews, Japanese Jews, Indian Jews, Black Jews. I was looking at the books and thinking, “But I don’t see that here. I see one specific type of Jewish child or Jewish family represented and it doesn’t look like mine.” I went in search of books with Jews of color and I found a couple. There’s one called Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas. She is half-Jewish and half-Indian. They make dosas for Hanukkah rather than latkes. That was cool. But still, illustrations are of a fairly light-skinned Jewish girl. I’m like, “You know what? If there’s not a book out there, I’m going to write one. ” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580713944052-498S297L0M5C4LBXQIRB/Betsy+Gamburg_edit_1.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Betsy, 67 This is my first menorah. I acquired it as a child without much sense of what being Jewish meant or was even about. My grandmother was the Director of Membership at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Philadelphia, and I remember they had a Purim carnival one year. Strangely enough it was at that Purim carnival that I saw this menorah, which is for a different holiday altogether. I was about 5 or 6. My grandmother saw how much I had fallen in love with it, so she purchased it for me. Every Hanukkah I would light birthday candles [not Hanukkah candles] in it. I’ve kept it with me all these years. We bring it out every Hanukkah along with our many other menorahs, and I still light it with birthday candles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714008297-IFGC934N56258FS1VYFF/Emily_edit_6_jg.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Emily, 34 All of my fostering of being an artist and a creative person comes from my relationship with my grandmother. She’s about 84 now and lives in New York City. She really downplays the significance of her life as an artist and her art, though she has many stories of artists she knew in New York and she even shared a studio with Eva Hesse. She’s never gifted me any of her art except for this piece. Though her life as an artist has directly influenced my desire to support artists and artist communities. There’s something there for me at the intersection of art and Judaism. That is how I come to Judaism—through creativity and innovation. I’m a systems thinker and a lot of my creativity comes out in how I organize and curate things or ideas, like literally flow charts or worksheets that allow everyone to be a part. That systems thinking comes from my grandma too. A lot of my domestic habits really mirror my grandmother’s, where everything has a purpose and an intention. Literally, if you go into my grandma’s house, and lift things, the object’s story will be written on the bottom. I’ve gotten jewelry from her that details where she bought it, what year, etcetera. And they’re not boring details. It’s like, “I rode a camel across the desert in 1963 and purchased this from a merchant in the market.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580839306788-IK6N6SATUN4P4PUO1S0B/Jenny+Schultz_JG_1.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Jenny, 45 This was hanging on my grandparents’ wall. They were both Holocaust survivors. So, they had a couple of family things, but not much. I spent so much time at their house in Rego Park in Queens, New York. And I remember looking at this as a kid and just kind of staring at it and memorizing the different names of the tribes—like giving some kind of order to something. It’s not the best rendering ever of the Chagall windows. It’s a little hard to see what’s going on in them. And it’s kind of made in a flimsy way with red velvet and stuff. It’s kitchy. But I like that. It’s more that it was from my grandparents’ house and reminds me of them. They were people who just cared about their Judaism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714164222-VVMOICIMYF1I89IGG9OZ/Rebecca+Gideon_raw_4JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Rebecca, 45 When my youngest child was nine months old, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was 32 and had three young kids. We were part of a very special Jewish community, Olam Tikvah, in Fairfax, Virginia. I needed help with everything. I needed a volunteer manager. My best friend stepped in and organized anyone who wanted to bring meals, help out with the kids or anything else. It was such an incredible experience to feel so lifted up and cared for by the community. I remember the food most; certain meals or special foods that people made. Like a friend who made cake with white and blue icing on Yom Ha'atzmaut. It is a funny detail because I blocked out a lot of the other stuff. After I was well, I realized there were certain objects in my house that I needed to get rid of because they were weighed down for me with the sadness and the loss, more than the happiness of being better. So, I threw out all of the scarves that I’d covered my head with. I threw out my sheitel. But the one thing that I kept was a piece of Tupperware. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714058741-AJDM6JYO1EEQP5EL105K/EricaProcton_edit_5.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Erica, 57 (Copy) “This Haggadah was published by your great-grandfather as a second edition in 1960. Maybe you will study German in later years and understand much about Judaism. Remembrance of seder 1972. Oma to my great-grandchild, Erica.” My great-grandfather, Siegfried Guggenheim, who came from a long lineage of German Jews, compiled this Haggadah while still living in Germany. It was important to him to make one that was like a work of art, that expressed his love of Judaism, and that other people, not just our family, would use and enjoy. He commissioned all of the artwork and had it published in Germany in 1927. He and my great-grandmother brought it over from Germany when they immigrated to the U.S. in 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714331859-5RREAUZ72MS3WPBLTLW4/Victoria+Carlin_edit_4.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Victoria, 59 (Copy) A car pulled up to the bus and detonated a bomb. Everyone to the left and right of Eyal was killed. Eyal survived. Miraculously. Eyal’s tragedy affected our family in many ways. I couldn’t sleep at night. Not out of anger, but out of fear. There is an existential threat to Israel daily. One day we could say, “Oh! Tel Aviv was the Paris of the Middle East and now it is gone.” Still no one wants peace more than Eyal. No one believes more in the Palestinian Arabs and Israelis and Israeli Arabs and all of the demographics that live in Israel and the need we have as Jews to continue to strive for the most humane way, the best way, to treat each other. I learn that from Eyal all of the time. But for me as an American Jew or a Jewish American I was occupied with the questions: “How do I serve Israel? How do I collate all of these things that happened? How do I support Israel after this and after having made aliyah and living now in the United States?” The answer was AIPAC. Which is a bipartisan organization that supports the American–Israel relationship. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable because of politics. I lobby Congress, and sometimes I take them to Israel and talk to them about things that are helping Israel and that will strengthen not only Israel but America, too, by advancing humanity, human rights and equality for both countries. This is the work that allows me to sleep at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714016462-NYX4L7SKK3KE2QYV7GHI/Cody+Sercy_edit_1.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Cody, 24 (Copy) This mezuzah was the first thing that I bought when I knew I wanted to convert to Judaism. I was 18 and I bought it online. I think there’s this idea often that an object has to have meaning because it has history, right? Like, “This was my great-grandmother’s kiddush cup,” or, “the Haggadah they brought over from the war,” or, “from the old country,” or whatever. But I think for me, what I really like about the mezuzah is that it was the moment where Judaism became my own, and I could claim it in a way that A.) was significant to me because of this budding independence that occurs when you’re 18 and a freshly minted adult and B.) it was a moment of my own volition. I wasn’t in a service. There wasn’t a rabbi. I was taking the tradition into my own hands in a way that made it my own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580762016293-RV4OVOW2FDMOUUVQOCKJ/MarylinChandler_edit_4.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Marilyn, 62 Passover seders were always in my nana and papa’s living room in Queens. We would pull the table from the dining room, where the breakfront was, into the living room so that we could expand for more people. Then the Passover china would come out of the china closet, the breakfront, where it is today now in my home. And so every time I open the china closet, where I also keep our Judaica for many occasions, I smell my grandparents. It’s like this whiff of Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Erev Yom Kippur. It’s pungent and delicious and it just smells from strudel and cookies, chicken soup, potato blini—these sort of wonderful smells from nana’s kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580762046465-N3ZLDODRJWCETFN5T9LO/Marilyn+Chandler_edit_20_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Marilyn image II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714208329-3I3YSDBJYYPNSPMEJWX5/RHodes+Laflin_+edit.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Rhodes, 4 It’s a menorah for candles that you have on Hanukkah. I made this at my other school. It’s Jewish. It reminds me of being Jewish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714246424-NT7VN831TNTAW1RIGLBP/Sam+Cone_edit_1.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Sam, 38 I have known about this document since I was very young. I don’t even remember the first time I encountered it. It’s been referenced repeatedly throughout my life. And an awful lot of other people know about this letter too because it’s referred to with some frequency around discussions of the hospital or other kinds of philanthropic initiatives. So, it’s just kind of pervasive and it doesn’t necessarily feel like it belongs to me. It doesn’t feel like my object. But as much as any object is tied to Judaism for me, this is. It’s more than any song, more than any ritual. It’s tied to why I’m in this place to begin with, why my family is in this place; because of our Jewish roots, because we did not have access to human and civil rights where we were. The particular language of this letter informs the work that I do in town addressing political, civil and human rights. It is something that I consistently turn back to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714259877-STQMYD9FPTFVLDKC42M1/StaceyKrim_edit_13.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Stacey, 39 Shortly before my high school years, my family moved from Greenville, South Carolina to eastern North Carolina where my father had taken a new job. I would not out myself as Jewish publicly or meet another Jewish person outside of my family until I arrived to Greensboro in my 20s. A few months after moving to eastern North Carolina there was a KKK march within 5 miles of our house. I became aware pretty early on that it was very dangerous to be Jewish… … My father had gotten me a Star of David when I was young, but it immediately identified me as Jewish and I didn’t feel safe wearing it. I had worn it a little bit when we lived in South Carolina, but I never wore it after that. Only later when I moved to Greensboro for graduate school and began to meet other Jews again and to find some comfort in my own identity did I want something Jewish, but discreetly Jewish, to wear. . . . . . A few years later I was tasked with visiting a very temperamental donor who lived on the side of a mountain just outside of Asheville, North Carolina. He had been an assistant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera. He was dying. And he was angry about a lot of things in his life. I needed to go and view his collection to make a judgment about acquiring it for the UNCG Archives. As I arrived with my colleague, I got out of the van and was standing about 10 feet away when the donor opened the door to his outdoor studio to greet us. He saw this mezuzah pendant and he knew immediately what it was. He opened his arm with great passion as if to say, “Oh my God!” Turns out he loved the Jewish people. He was a gay man who had been adopted into a rural South Carolina farming family. He had been a natural pianist and very feminine and for this he had been bullied mercilessly to the point of several suicide attempts in his youth. When he finally made it into the music world, the Jews in the business took him in. I was terrified when he recognized this pendant. It was like being outed. It was the first time in my entire life that anyone had ever reacted positively to my being a Jew. I later understood that what the Jewish musicians had done for him, by welcoming him in a way that he had never experienced, he had done for me. Sadly, he died before I could tell him that. My father wore the mezuzah pendant that I now wear. I inherited it from him when he died in 2018. I added the Star of David a few months later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714286509-IBLMISNP8XVYYD8ZDQIF/SydneyMiller_edit_6_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Sydney, 22 As a kid growing up in Connecticut I would go to Temple on Rosh Hashanah, and after the service they had this table set up with a bunch of different fruits, especially apples, and a bowl of honey sticks. I would always take the honey sticks and eat them. I wasn’t very interested in going to Temple. I don’t even remember the name. But eating these honey sticks was the one thing that made it fun and entertaining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714328544-Z5L8MQVQKC8PA8E237CJ/SusanSiegel_edit_13.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Susan, 55 I inherited this painting from my grandparents. They weren’t particularly religious, but they had this painting in their home. It hung in their living room. From the time that I could talk, I used to go and speak to the “rabbi” in this painting. I would share my thoughts and feelings with him without any prompting from my parents or grandparents. Before I even knew what a rabbi really was, I somehow knew that this was a special person that I could confide in. I was told that I called him “my rabbi.” My grandparents were tickled by that and they wanted my parents to know that when I grew up and had a home of my own, the painting would be mine. I find it so interesting that, as a little girl, I intuited that I wanted more Jewishly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580714298437-E7OEVPHYMI6ACALB93OG/Todd+Gillen_edit_3_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Todd, 28 I’ve had this for as long as I can remember. Growing up I kept it in my room. I would mess with it occasionally. But since I became an adult, I’ve always had it in my car. Always. It’s a powerful protection talisman type of thing for my vehicle. I don’t believe that the object itself has any specific connection to God more so than I do. It’s just a feeling. It's always kept me safe in the cars that I've driven. I've never gotten in an accident or anything. It’s like a lucky charm specifically for the car. When I was in high school, I used to keep it in the steering wheel. There was like a place where I could stick this bottom end in the steering wheel, and it would just sit there. Now I keep it in the glove box with all of my stuff. It’s probably the only thing of a Jewish tradition that lives in there. And if it were taken out of my car I wouldn’t feel good.* It wouldn’t feel right. You know what I’m saying? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580716696177-38F2IYHUKMIX008RT7LY/Lennie+Gerber_edit_32.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Lennie, 84 Pearl and I were together for 52 years. We fell in love in 1966 and started living together on June 2nd that same year. I had never dated a Jewish woman. I had dated Jewish boys before I knew I was a lesbian, but never a Jewish woman until I met Pearl. And though my mother did not approve of our relationship for many years, I said to her, “But mom, I married a Jew. You always said that was the only thing you cared about.” I . . . Anyway, at that time there were no weddings for gays and lesbians. So we never thought about it. But in 2013 the Supreme Court upheld the United States vs Edie Windsor case and made same-sex marriage legal in most states across the U.S. This changed everything for us. . . . . . Before the ceremony, on the day of our wedding, we went into the rabbi’s office to sign the ketubah with two witnesses. The rabbi handed me a pen and I said, “Well, before I sign this, I want to know something. If I want a Jewish divorce, will I have to get a get [an official Jewish divorce document]?” The shocked rabbi said that yes I would. “Ok, I just wanted to make sure that I’m having a legal Jewish wedding.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580839279123-8DJUZVO4A7C8C0WMPA7Z/Annorah_edit_-1_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Annorah, 7th grade “It’s yours and if you’re alive to keep it however long you want, nobody can ever take it or the memories you have of it away from you.” Everyone gets a siddur at the end of first grade. Sometime in the year your parents come in and they decorate your siddur, and they put your name on it. It’s really important to me, because you know, there’s no other cover like this in the world because my mom specifically made it for me. And it’s a really special thing. Even though it’s really small, it means a lot to me and it’s gotten me through some really rough times. I don’t think another siddur could ever replace it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580716598704-ZQWD0AM0USTRC61TWXI4/Jason+Cathcart_edit_3_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Jason, 44 This cheesy coffee mug with my name on it was gifted to me at the first USY regional conference I staffed in August of 1998 on the Space Coast. I was there working with a group of teens on leadership development and it was the first time I had traveled with teens as a professional Jewish educator. I learned a lot about the youth, because that’s what happens when you spend four days with teenagers—you get to know them pretty well. But I also learned a lot about myself, and my own work style, my learning style and my teaching style. It was a great way to start this whole adventure of being a Jewish educator which I’ve now been doing for half of my life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580716799588-5902L29TDGEKKELDEPYE/Adam+Carlin_edit_8.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Adam, 30 I inherited a space-stamp collection from my father that I continue to add to. I’m not a practicing Jew in a religious sense of the word, but what I do really like about Judaism is the connection to my ancestors, to the ingrained experiences of my ancestors that exist in my DNA. I love to think about the way I look or how tall I am as a direct dialogue with my ancestors. And my dad represents that for me. My dad’s a Trekkie. He loves science fiction and so do I. I got that from him. The sign, “Live long and prosper,” comes from Star Trek but it is also part of our ancestral inheritance because we are Cohens [descendants of the High Priests from the ancient Temple in Jerusalem]. That’s our last name. At my wedding, not too long ago, my dad gave a toast and it was a Star Trek-themed toast. Whenever we sign off and say goodbye, we always do the Cohen / Star Trek sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580717347597-BYNDZZJXAMPAC28RRESB/Richard+Lerner_edit_1.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Rich, 62 This was purchased on my family’s first trip to Israel in the ’70s. That was the first time I went to Israel. My parents were in a jewelry store. I think it was Swed in Jerusalem. And the man in the store said, “I have something special in the back that I’d like to show you. ” And he brought this piece out and showed it to them and told them that it was very old and that it was used by people that wanted to practice Judaism but were in a situation where that was not possible, or it couldn’t be done openly. The way it was told to me is that it was designed to be able to sit on the shelf and not draw attention like many [other] pieces [of Judaica] would. He suggested that it was possibly from the Spanish Inquisition, but he did not have a way to confirm that. I’ve always just appreciated things of historical significance. And this item, the whole patina of it, and the fact that it was really used, and by people that wanted to practice Judaism but couldn’t do that openly, has a great deal of significance to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580762090023-8W963MGWYHEA2IT5I9JE/Rich+Lerner_edit_13_JG.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Rich image II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580749275526-HPK2L4Z47UFN8EQX0NDZ/Andra_Sophia_edit_5.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Sophia, 10 & Elena, 8 I heard some girls in my Girl Scouts troop talking about a buddy bench, and I felt like that would be a fun thing to bring to our school and just call it a Mensch Bench because we were learning about how to be a mensch in second grade—doing good deeds and being nice to other people. So if someone feels left out and lonely, they could sit on the bench and then someone could come over if they see them on the bench and ask them if they want to play. It would be like a sign. If they’re sitting on the bench, that would mean, “I want someone to play with. I’m lonely. I feel left out.” It’s a mitzvah to be kind to somebody and play with them if they have nobody to play with. I wanted it to be pink. HOT PINK. At the time, in second grade, I felt like hot pink was a really bright and kind color ‘cause it’s like love. Red and pink are love colors. And it was like spreading the love from one person to another. That was really important to me at that time. But the carpenter really wanted to preserve the wood. And it’s still beautiful with Mensch Bench carved into it. Now [three years later] the more it’s been used, the more friendships have been built. People feel less isolated or lonely and they have less of a need for the Mensch Bench. Now, just two friends go hang out on it together. It takes some bravery to go sit on the bench if you’re feeling lonely. But you could still tell if someone actually feels sad and needs someone to talk to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580749190372-NGUN3H58QAQF8KHJNCS2/Tracy+Simon_edit_1.jpg 36+2 Exhibition - Tracy, 50 I grew up in Brooklyn, New York always knowing that I was Jewish. We were always told we were Jewish and the neighborhood was 98% Jewish. Everybody was Jewish. We weren’t a practicing type of community, but everybody in the building knew when the holidays came. You would stay home from school, put on your nice clothes, and go downstairs and go walking. Where we were walking didn’t matter. We knew who we were. There were a couple of girls in my class named Mary Ellen and I said, “Mommy, why can’t I be named Mary Ellen? That’s a beautiful name.” And she said, “Well, you can’t be Mary Ellen cause we’re not Irish/Catholic.” I never was wearing my Judaism on the outside. It was always pretty much on the inside and with friends and family. And then a great aunt of mine had gone on a trip and she bought this small gold Jewish star, one for me and one for my sister. I was about eight. And I was so excited because I now felt like I could be Jewish on the outside. And there I was suddenly, wearing my Judaism on the outside. So now strangers could see that too. And you know, with my kids it's funny here, especially at Christmas. People would say to my kids when they were young, “Oh, what is Santa Claus going to get you?” or “Be good for Santa.” My daughter would ask, “Do we look Christian?” As they got older they would answer, “Oh, we don’t get presents from Santa Claus.” And the looks we would get from the cashiers! Like they were mortified, thinking, either I’m a terrible mother or dirt poor. 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- Make it stand out Untitled (Chalk Mind Map) by Mike Nourse, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1585205543780-T3O78R5XKBUVQDVAT0BE/IMG_0809.jpg GCJM Social Practice Institute https://www.greensborocjm.org/socialpracticeinstitute daily 0.75 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/658ab158-0608-48e6-8540-48966f5fd18a/website-logo1.jpeg The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/b535599c-2fc1-46ad-b56e-90255a9c5bc2/3848326632+-+mike+wirth.jpeg The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out The Dalet Door. 2022, digital illustration, 5'x5', stretched digitally printed nylon fabric https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/2f553b40-557b-4ea5-810e-5637ff7ba0eb/jahm-logo.png The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/707834ad-3258-47f1-bd40-35b033ef52bd/UNCGJewishStudiesLogoPNG.png The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/d664ee9e-8bb3-4cb2-bf0a-4c534ce958d8/GJF%2520Logo%2520no%2520tagline.png The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/8be72c83-abc4-479d-8ba5-0b97d81a707a/ostrich+and+tyler+a+parsifal%2C+photo+by+Catalin+Stelian+-+Logan+Gabrielle+Schulman.jpeg The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out Production Still from Susan Sontag's A Parsifal, in the 1st Annual FutureNow Festival, presented by the Hangar Theatre and The Drama League, 2022. Performed as a double feature presentation with Jordan Tannahill's Sunday in Sodom, as a story cycle meditating on the human consequence of the American military machine and violent masculinity. Directed by Logan Gabrielle Schulman. Featuring Tyler Bae and Kamau Nosakhere. Photo credit to Catalin Stelian and courtesy of The Drama League. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/d971dbaf-c5d9-4def-8e2d-461cbdd83e30/IMG_6043+-+Ryna+Frankel.jpg The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1222f6f9-7f71-4d11-bb82-6e7d1189a5e3/20220919_163525.jpg The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/4dda2f56-c985-4c19-b9ee-c00e4d4a1f06/i-55LkXCj-X5+-+Ryna+Frankel.jpg The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out This is an installation view of a 2019 solo exhibition titled close enough at the McEachern Art Center at Mercer University. The project aimed to examine how and why plants remind us of home; the piece in the foreground consists of 50 soft cactus sculptures that viewers were invited to take home with them at the end of the exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/bd375689-70f5-46ed-9a3b-49b47152e453/ElsewhereResidencySocialPracticeInstituteGCJM.jpg The Social Practice Institute https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/22519a60-42cb-4bc5-b952-22a7629fa51e/2022Headshot-768x566+-+mike+wirth.png The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/43fe7f6e-e95e-422b-bc01-02fb815b09c8/Logan_Gabrielle_Schulman_Headshot_2021+-+Logan+Gabrielle+Schulman.jpeg The Social Practice Institute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1585205543780-T3O78R5XKBUVQDVAT0BE/IMG_0809.jpg The Social Practice Institute https://www.greensborocjm.org/socialpracticeinstitutezoom daily 0.75 2022-09-13 https://www.greensborocjm.org/gcjm-catalogue daily 0.75 2020-02-03 https://www.greensborocjm.org/gcjm-catalogue/greensboro-contemporary-jewish-museum-catalogue monthly 0.5 2020-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5defb8d618fa5e2d72b25f16/1580767204622-NEORR3HWSD2ZN1U3XZXQ/GCJM_Cover_Front.jpg GCJM Catalogue - Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum Catalogue