by Gordon Haber | Jan 24, 2024 | Compendium
The CANVAS Compendium: Dispatches from the New Jewish Renaissance Too often our understanding of the Ashkenaz lingua franca (née mamaloshen) is clouded by borscht-colored glasses—kitschified, reduced to a few cutesy words that belie its important role in Jewish...
by Sarah Burford | Jan 11, 2024 | Compendium, News
The CANVAS Compendium: Dispatches from the New Jewish Renaissance The New Year is a time for new beginnings, and we’re delighted to announce a new round of Jewish arts and culture grantmaking—more than $200,000 awarded in funding to eight impactful organizations, each...
by CANVAS Staff | Dec 14, 2023 | Compendium
The CANVAS Compendium: Dispatches from the New Jewish Renaissance By Julian VolojLast November 11th and 12th was one of the most exciting Jewish cultural events of the year, when the Center for Jewish History in New York held the inaugural Jewish Comics Experience,...
by Gordon Haber | Nov 29, 2023 | Compendium
The CANVAS Compendium: Dispatches from the New Jewish Renaissance It’s nearly two months since the October 7 attacks, and there are no easy answers to the suffering and bloodshed faced by Israelis and Palestinians. Nor are there easy answers to the...
by Lou Cove | Oct 12, 2023 | Compendium
The CANVAS Compendium: Dispatches from the New Jewish Renaissance Photo: Ilana Shckolnick-Backal via the PikiWiki – Israel free image collection project Dear Reader, Like you, I am horrified by the events unfolding in Israel and Gaza. First and foremost, we...
by Gordon Haber | Sep 28, 2023 | Compendium
The CANVAS Compendium: Dispatches from the New Jewish Renaissance Allow me to state the obvious: this is a time of divisiveness and intolerance. Indeed, certain leading citizens now gleefully stress our differences to further their own agendas and careers, and it...