Shema, The

Artist’s Statement: This is a painting of the repeated letters of the words “Hear, O Israel, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One,” in Hebrew in gold on dark blue with silver, white, and light blue.

Artist’s Statement: This is one of six windows I created for a Chabad center in New Jersey, based on the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s mitzvah campaigns.

Artist’s Statement: This painting was inspired by a sermon I once heard. When you break down the sounds of the name of one of our most sacred prayers, "Shema," it instills in us a sense of peace and comfort. It is the kind of peace and comfort that comes ...

Artist’s Statement: This painting expresses the watchwords of Judaism—the Shema prayer Hear, O Israel, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One. Blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom forever and ever. In the background, the red color field symbolize...

Artist’s Statement: This image is an expression of the first paragraph of the Shema, in which we are instructed to love G-d. The musical cantillation notes for chanting this paragraph are represented in my composition by the black right angle and the pair...

For more than a month, Rabbi Guy and Maya Efraim – two of the newest Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries stationed in communities across the world – have been encouraging Jewish pride in the counterculture haven of Goa, India. With an outreach largely geared to t...

A pair of “Roving Rabbis” visited the Jewish communities of Serbia, finding both the remembrance of history and a hope for the future in their members.