by Gordon Haber | Feb 28, 2024 | Compendium
The CANVAS Compendium: Dispatches from the New Jewish Renaissance “If you believe breaking is possible, believe fixing is possible.” —Rabbi Nachman of Breslau Many of us are living in a state of perpetual worry. There’s so much going wrong right now,...
by CANVAS Staff | Feb 7, 2024 | Compendium
The CANVAS Compendium: Dispatches from the New Jewish Renaissance When we think about growing a sector, we first think about money. Recognizing that the Jewish arts and culture sector was dramatically under-resourced, the funding partners at CANVAS prioritized getting...
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...