Issue #5

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ABOUT GIVE

  1. Introducing TIKKUN/REPAIR

  2. Sanctuary
    Ariel Goldberg & Laurie Melrood

  3. "Iron Dome Listicle"
    Natan Last

  4. Patterns
    Jonathan Rotsztain

  5. The Diaspora of Poland-Palestine
    Avot Yeshurun & Ariel Resnikoff

  6. "Operation" and "Price of Entry"
    Matisse Rosen

  7. Three States of Gender Alchemy
    Nicki Green

  8. The Octopus
    Nathan Goldman

  9. Among Refugees Generation Y
    Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson

  10. Tikkun Olam, or "small-z Zionism"?

  11. 29 Texts on Tikkun Olam
    Rabbi David Seidenberg

  12. The Problematics of Return
    Gabi Kirk

  13. Reading Reparation
    Benjamin Kersten

  14. Tikkun Olam Today

  15. Stories of Demolition
    Basel Sulieman Adra, Hamdan Balall, Sami Huraini, Ahmed Jundeya, Nasser Nawaja, Elias Newman

  16. Work and Worship
    Maya Rosen

  17. "Hevron" and "Mishna Ketubot 4:4"
    Margo Hughes-Robinson

  18. The Sign Under Which They Fight
    Isaac Brosilow

  19. Cultivating Jewish "Ecotheology"
    Ben Lorber

  20. Entropical Futures
    Hannah Chalew

  21. A Problem
    Yael Frank

Patterns

Jonathan Rotsztain

Patterns is a detail of wallpaper from a site-specific diorama that makes visible how family, community, and social context can unconsciously shape one’s patterns of behavior and thinking. Like wallpaper at home, we become so accustomed to it that we stop noticing it entirely. In this work, Rotsztain harnesses an inner struggle of inter-generational trauma to fuel and reconcile a progressive, secular worldview with narratives about his Jewish life.

Jonathan Rotsztain is a cartoonist, writer, and graphic designer based in Toronto.

Patterns was commissioned by and is on view at FENTSTER until June 11, 2019. Text adapted from curator Evelyn Tauben. Presenting contemporary art connected to the Jewish experience, FENTSTER (Yiddish for “window”) is an independent, artist-run exhibition space located in the storefront window of the organization Makom in downtown Toronto.

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