Happy Sukkot To All My Jewish Friends 🙏🏼! Had A Lovely Lunch In At The #Deloitte Sukkah In The

Happy birthday, Ian McDiarmid! We have watched your career with great interest.

Cute illustrations done by Marija Tiurina 

Picture titled ‘Algerian Jew’ from the Jewish Encyclopedia.

Algeria’s Jewish community dates from the Roman invasion and the destruction of the Second Temple.  Read more about the Algerian Jewish community here.

And see synagogues of the Algerian Jewish community here.

JUST SOLD! Autumn Fine Art Auction- Lot 289 $2,000 Artist: Pablo Picasso, After, Spanish (1881 - 1973) Title: Homme a la Pipe Assise sur un Tabouret Year of Original Artwork: 1969 Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper Edition: 500, 34 AP’s Size: 22 in. x 29 in. (55.88 cm x 73.66 cm) Reference: 3 Chromist: Laurent Marcel Salinas Estate of Picasso, (Marina Picasso) pencil signature and embossed blindstamp lower right. Ink stamp verso ‘Approved by the heirs of Pablo Picasso’

Georges Braque, Glass on a Table, 1909-10, oil on canvas, 33.1 x 37.2 cm, Tate Liverpool. Source

“Jewish Wedding” by Jozef Israëls (1824-1911),1903

Pablo Picasso - Woman sitting in an armchair 

It’s Sukkot time by Oliver Hammond Via Flickr: Time for a break from the parade of destruction. If you’re Jewish, Sukkot means that you’re supposed to take your meals and play host to visitors inside a small outdoors hut. In Minnesota in late Sept/Oct, that can be a bitch. Coindidentally, this year Ramadan overlaps with the Yamim Noraim, which Sukkot is part of. During Ramadan, Muslims abstain from eating or drinking or generally doing anything enjoyable between sunrise and sunset. Fortunately, Autumn daylight in Minnesota is fairly short-lived.

Adapting Traditions for Modern Judaical Art with @tobylouketubah

To see more of Toby’s ketubot and other Jewish cultural art, follow @tobylouketubah on Instagram.

San Francisco-based artist Toby Simon (@tobylouketubah) grew up in a house full of Jewish art and with a very creative spirit. “I had a junk box in my room that was filled with things I collected like: berry cartons, straws, ribbons and random bits of plastic.” Later in college, Toby discovered a passion for Hebrew calligraphy and began designing her own Judaical art, featuring references to Jewish culture ranging from menorahs and poetry to modernizing ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract.

“What I love most about a ketubah is that it connects us to our ancestors, but at the same time by modernizing the text we can now include interfaith, secular or same-sex marriages; marriages that were not accounted for in the earliest Aramaic versions,” she says. “As a ketubah designer I feel proud to be a part of this progression.”

A full-time mom with two children, Toby finds time to create early in the morning or during nap time. For the upcoming Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, she continues to adapt tradition. Her menorahs made of fabric and buttons are a “safe way for children to count out the eight nights of Hanukkah with their parents.”

MARC CHAGALL - To My Betrothed (1911)

Gouache and oil on paper. 61 x 44.5 cm