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End of Year Newsletter 2020

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Gleaning Jewish Wisdom Through Art

On the first Friday of every month, the quiet cobblestone streets of Old City Philadelphia are reborn into a bustling, contemporary art s...

Philly’s Jewish Arts Community Survives, Even Thrives Online

The National Museum of Jewish American History filed for bankruptcy last month — then things got worse, not just there, but for everyone....

Emmy Award-winning journalist Joyce Ferder Rankin is bringing her one-woman exhibition to Philly

Have you ever wanted to take a peek and see what the most remote part of the world looks like? Starting tomorrow, Philadelphians official...

Old City Jewish Art Center Exhibit Demystifies Infertility

For something that affects nearly one in eight couples, infertility is far too often misunderstood. So goes the thinking of Elizabeth Wal...

Scott Weiner’s Celebrity Photos Chronicle Rock ‘n’ Roll History

In some circles, Philadelphia photographer Scott Weiner has become as legendary as the subjects of his work. A rock ‘n’ roll exhibition c...

‘The Art of Grief and What Follows’ at OCJAC Explores Grief Through Abstract Paintings

Philadelphia-based artist Tremain Smith wasn’t sure what to expect when Rabbi Zalman Wircberg, director of the Old City Jewish Arts Cente...

Tremain Smith’s Art Returning To Old City At The Old City Jewish Art Center Exhibit

Rabbi Zalman Wircberg had never heard of Tremain Smith when someone attending an exhibit at the Old City Jewish Art Center said they were...

Old City Jewish Art Center presents Tremain Smith’s ‘The Art of Grief and What Follows’

“I am a painter of wounds. Revealing the wound invites healing,” writes Tremain Smith in The Art of Grief and What Follows at Old City Jew...

Tremain Smith at the Old City Jewish Arts Center

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