Page 6 - The Jewish Voice - September '21

Page 6, The Jewish Voice

Local Happenings from page 4 photography, jewelry, and other mixed media. Much of The women will explain their enthusiasm for their subject
the artists’ work is inspired by the natural beauty of South in an afterword at the film screening. The Mandel Library is
“Alpert JFS is committed to combating hunger in our Florida and includes landscapes, ocean scenes, sea turtles, showing the film as part of its month-long focus on diversity.
community,” said Rotenberg. “We provide food during and whimsical mermaids. The screening is free, but there is limited seating and
the year to individuals and families struggling with food Art by Aboriginal People features a private collection reservations are required to attend. The Zoom link ID is 845
insecurity. The face of food insecurity can be homebound of paintings and wood carvings primarily made by 8341 9392.
elderly on meager incomes, but can just as easily be young prominent female aboriginal artists from the central
families facing financial challenges, setbacks, and job loss.” desert region of the Northern Territory of Australia. The Palm Beach Goes to Brooklyn
“I am so pleased that the first pilot project of the Food aboriginal paintings use a dot technique that creates a
Pantry Committee will help supply food and supplies for 3-D effect and a sense of movement and rhythm. The A group from the Jewish Community Synagogue
Alpert JFS clients so that they may be prepared for a variety dot paintings tell stories with hidden symbols that have got a behind-the-scenes tour of the private Jewish
of unexpected situations,” said Feldman. “The contents of a deeper meaning about aboriginal life. The back of the community in Crown Heights. Some highlights were
the bags are essentials that are coming from the shelves of paintings reveals the artists’ location and the meaning joining the chasidic wedding of Rabbi Laizer Raksin
our pantries in West Palm Beach and Boynton Beach.” behind the painting. The art has been ethically sourced and Bassy Barash, private access to the Chabad Rebbe’s
“We are grateful for the generosity of our community and certified. audience room, a scribe, a mikvah, and central Chabad’s
members who ensure that our kosher food pantries are “Compare the dreamscapes of the Women in the Visual communications room.
stocked with food and supplies,” said Lasky. “If anyone Arts to those of the aboriginal artists and you’ll feel the
knows of friends, family, or neighbors who could benefit grandeur of our differences and our similarities,” says
from the Alpert JFS Kosher Food Pantry, please call Curator Janeen Mason. “It will make for a day you won’t
561.684.1991.” soon forget.”
The exhibitions, on view through October 29, are
Local Holocaust Survivor in person with art available for purchase. Admission

Celebrates Bar Mitzvah is free to members and $5 for non-members. For more
information, visit lighthousearts.org.

When Yaakov Shmuel from the Jewish Community Film to Be Screened at
Synagogue was making his at-home visits, he met a special
man — a neurosurgeon and pediatric surgeon general of the Mandel Library
state of Leningrad, serving 2.5 million people. In 1942, he
witnessed the siege of Leningrad, which lasted 900 days. During the long year-plus of shutdown, Tami Gold
“The first hundred days were the worst — 30,000 people of Brooklyn and Pam Storn of the Bronx created a
died of starvation. The streets were lined with dead and remarkable film to commemorate the 50th anniversary
frozen bodies. You never knew if you’d be the next to drop of the establishment of a department of Puerto Rican and
dead,” Victor said. Latino studies at Brooklyn College. The department was
Miraculously, his family survived and he went on to do a forerunner of ethnic studies at colleges and universities
great things. Last month, Victor put on tefillin for the very throughout the City University of New York.
first time — at 92 years old! Their film, “Making the Impossible Possible,” will be
screened at the Mandel Library in West Palm Beach, at
7 p.m. on Thursday, September 30, and will be on Zoom
at the same time. Both women speak of their Jewish
roots in the documentary, and their many films portray
the problems of segments of the population that bear the
brunt of prejudice. Their documentaries have won awards
and have been aired at festivals and on Public Television.
The current film tells the story of the student-led
struggle in the late 1960s to establish a Puerto Rican
studies department at the college. The title stems from the
treatment students at first received from the president and
provost at the school. Determined to change minds, the
Lighthouse ArtCenter students, mostly led by young Puerto Ricans, enlisted the
support of Black and Jewish students to make their case.
Exhibition Crosses Cultures To celebrate the anniversary, the Gold and Sporn
team were enlisted by Gisely Colon Lopez, the producer,
Lighthouse ArtCenter welcomes visitors to experience to create the documentary. The 33-minute film is the
a wide variety of media and cultures through a collection result. Live interviews with students from the past skip
of visual art that celebrates artists from near and far. Art delightfully to these students, now men and women
Across Cultures features two concurrent exhibitions: in their 70s. The film unfolds a riveting story on how,
Women in the Visual Arts and Art by Aboriginal People. indeed, it was possible to make the impossible happen. Local Happenings on page 7

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