Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crises Temple Judea Museum exhibition January – March 2021 Having spent the past 16 years running an art program for mainly Black teenagers, I have had the incredible experience of coming to know wonderful kids and parents. The Black Lives Matter Movement and marching for...
Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crises Temple Judea Museum exhibition January – March 2021 DIANA TAFLIN MYERS Diana Myers is an artist who creates sculptures, assemblages and collages with mixed media. She has studied art history and fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as at Cheltenham and other...
Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crises Temple Judea Museum exhibition January – March 2021 Over these many years my work has consistently been non-objective, meaning that it is concerned with expressing my ideas about shape, color, light, dark, texture etc., the formal elements that artists use to create a visual image....
Every day I am hearing about another friend or family member who received their Vaccine or at last the first dose of the Vaccine. I admit to feeling a little envious, that their safety net has arrived and they may feel less nervous about moving freely back into the world....
We are in the middle of the most dramatic, most pivotal, most intense, most action filled, and most consequential Torah portions in the Torah! The portion of Bo is the third section in the book of Exodus. We learn about the eighth, ninth, and tenth and final plagues that the...
CHELTENHAM, Jan. 8 – State Rep. Napoleon Nelson, D-Montgomery, announced that Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel received $265,000 in a state Growing Greener grant to help replace impervious parking pavement with bioretention features and two rain gardens. The congregation said the project also will include planting trees and building plant beds. “Our community...
This week has been a traumatic time for the American people. On our televisions, cell phones, and iPads, we have seen images that previously would have been unimaginable with the Capitol building in Washington, D.C being attacked and trashed by an unruly and vengeful mob. We have read in history...
Eternal One our God, We join together in prayer for our country. Help us to be strong at this dangerous moment of infamy. Strengthen our resolve to uphold our democratic principles even as they come under violent assault. Teach us the true meaning of freedom and protect us from insurrection...
Dear Congregants, I must admit that being a Congregational President during this pandemic has been challenging; but staying masked and working around Covid-19 has not stopped me from keeping in touch with what is happening at KI. I thought you might appreciate a glimpse of the meetings and programs I...
As many of you know, I am a Civil War buff. My interest in the War Between the States began when I was six years old. In 1960, the United States was celebrating the Centennial of the Civil War. Living in Baltimore, I was in easy driving distance of Gettysburg,...
