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About the Website
Posted December 23, 2009 at 2:31 PM by Eli
This website is mostly for grownups, but it does have a kids' section for kids.
The Kids' s section includes Games like Holly Day's Mini-Golf from
BabaGaNews.com, where you play as Holly and play Mini-Golf throughout the Jewish
Holidays. It also includes Crafts, both for the holidays falling before the
website was launched and for the upcoming holiday which is Tu b'Shevat. It also
includes a discussion of the Parshas from BabaGaNews.com and Chabad.org. It will
show you basic information about the holidays, just in case you didn't know.
We'll also feature surprises each month. And that is all the stuff that we can
fit into this website. Hope you enjoy the Kids' Section.
Eli enjoys visiting the Cincinnati Art Museum
on a regular basis. During the summer of 2011, Eli visited the exhibit,
Paint Your World, and below is his review:
Eli Neman’s Review of the Mercaz Exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Paint Your
Jewish
World
Identity –
Just
Picture It
Introduction: Marc
Chagall, the first Jewish artist whose paintings were not only dream-like, also
tells us about his Jewish life. Which brings us to this review of this art
museum exhibit about you guessed it: Jewish art that are not by adults, but by
teens. The art that the teens created tells us about their Jewish life and how
it is great to be Jewish. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this review.
Elise M. Spiegel (age 14)
Elise writes that “Judaism in my life today as a
teen is filled with both confusion and happiness,” which she illustrates with
sea imagery. She sees the sea as both a hero and an enemy, painting a picture of
Moses at the Red Sea and a picture of Jonah and the whale. Moses put a
stick in the sand and ordered the sea, and the Children of Israel were free.
In the Jonah story, Jonah gets into the sea and is swallowed by a whale because
he disobeyed God.
Allison Nemoff (age 14)
Allison’s pictures show a tree in winter and Moses
splitting the Red Sea. The tree represents Death because there is no life
in winter; but the Moses painting reminds us of Passover, which takes place in
the spring, and represents Life.
Julia Bailes (age 14)
Julia’s three pictures represent herself, a dancer,
and a tree blowing in the spring wind. The paintings of the dancer and the
tree are related because when the wind blows the tree, it moves swiftly like a
dancer, and the self portrait is pretty good. Julia writes: “The Jewish
people may live all over the world and have different views about many things,
but we are all connected back to one strong root. The wind shows the
suffering of our people and what we have gone through, yet the tree is still
standing strong.”
Elka Bressler (age 15)
Elka’s paintings are abstract. Her first
picture tells about a spirit and about moods, and the second picture shows
leaves in a grassland. Both pictures have bright colors and movement.
Sarah Wasnenski (age 17)
Sarah gives us two paintings--one of herself and
one showing how the Torah is useful in our lives.
Maddie Hall (age 14)
Maddie also shows two pictures: a painting of Becca
and one of the Noah parasha. The Noah painting shows that just as the
animals lived happily together in the Ark, we can all live together happily in
America.
Elana Schwartz
Elana’s painting, “Moses and the Burning Bush,”
shows neither the burning bush nor Moses. She just shows a red, bright
light coming from a Bush and half of Moses’s shoe, telling us to imagine the
story.
Rebecca Kahn
Becca’s pictures include a Portrait of Maddie in
Blues, her own family, and a lightning strike symbolizing Jacob’s ladder at Beth
El. This painting tells us that nature can be used to represent spiritual
things in the Bible.
Shera Shturman (14)
Shera
made four paintings, a tree, a self-portrait, the Tower of Babel, which looks
like her tree, and an Airport. The Airport tells us that whether you live
in the United States of America, Israel, or someplace else, you are still a Jew
no matter how you look at it.
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