"A Shanda Since 1971"
Blue Reinhard’s name—Blue—signals itself. He parades his laptop to the corner of his concrete-padded studio in Los Angeles; my Zoom screen repositions his artwork into view. There’s the mirror he found, without its mirror, on the side of the road, prepped into a painting surface. I see a regular cotton canvas embedded with braids…
The role of the Jewish artist, as Sasha Jonah Lazer once wrote, is to make diaspora irresistible. Onward. I wouldn’t come to know entirely what this meant until my junior year of college when I enrolled in a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language course at Penn, my home institution. I had already grown my fervor for…
From fashion to music to culture, an exploration of popular past and contemporary Jewish masculinities.
The weeklong trip to Camp Kinder Ring has been around, formally, for 14 years. But, for the first time, yunge mentshn (“young people”) would fill the bunks, and meet the generations that came before.