07/03/2020
Thanks to everyone for participating in Schechter’s online trivia contest! See the questions and answers below. Each one is drawn from an article on Schechter’s website and are linked below.
The child is supposed to reimagine Ephraim and Menashe in his own image… Their hopes and aspirations have to be that they’d be great like Ephraim and Menashe. What does that mean? That’s up to the child himself. The child has to imagine Ephraim and Menashe in his own image, in the image of the child himself.
The destructive precedent of gender separation at holy sites was created at the Western Wall in 1967. The excuse given by the then-minister for religious affairs for this separation included the claim that such separation existed at the time of the Temple — an argument that is not historically accurate. The religious establishment then began to separate women from men at Maarat HaMachpelah and Rachel’s Tomb. Starting in the 1990s, this trend spread to all of the Jewish holy sites.
The artist is Gary Goldstein who just had an exhibition at Neve Schecter, Schechter’s Tel Aviv arts campus. Read more about his work here.