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In times of uncertainty and upheaval, you might be inclined to take a note from Hermione Granger and seek counsel in the vast knowledge contained in the library. If you're struggling to know where to start to look or what books to turn to, here's a list of works to enlighten and guide your fight for social justice.
Racial Equality
March Trilogy (Book One, Book Two, Book Three) by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin with illustrations by Nate Powell: This series of graphic novels covers congressman John Lewis' lifelong commitment and involvement with the civil rights movement.
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.: This famous essay is a great defense of nonviolent demonstration and a rallying cry against social discrimination. While many are familiar with the history surrounding it and passages from it, it's worth reading in full.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi: In this history of racism and the ideas that continue to fuel it, Kendi explores what has helped and hindered the racial equality movement and highlights what issues still need to be tackled.
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio: This biography of the influential and overlooked member of the American civil rights movement shows his integral role in this part of history as well as explores how his sexuality prevented him from becoming a household name like many other activists of that time.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates: A look at race and its history in America from the Civil War to the Black Lives Matter movement. A great read, especially for teens.
Gender Equality
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: This essay looks at what feminism should be like today, placing importance on intersectionality and global awareness of the issues women face in every country.
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan: This intriguing piece of women's history divulges the stories and experiences of the people involved in a secret abortion service in the years prior to the landmark Roe vs. Wade case.
The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich: These poems discuss sexuality, power, and violence against women. An evocative look into feminist and queer issues through the means of poetry.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: Often times, gender inequality is reduced to the issues faced by white women living in the U.S. This book is one way to gain a more global understanding of the inequalities experienced by women in developing countries and how we can work to eradicate these problems.
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti: This cultural and social analysis examines how females are raised to be valued for morals based largely around their sexual behavior and its damaging effects. She also offers suggestions for how we can escape to a future that does not emphasize virginity in such a harmful way.
LGBTQ+ Issues
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner: Through these two full-length plays, Kushner tells the story of several men grappling with sexuality, religion, relationships, and AIDS.
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein: A collection of essays, commentary, comic art, and conversations from a variety of people on the trans-spectrum.
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski: The book provides the LGBTQ history of the U.S. from pre-1492 to the present.
Homophobia: A History by Byrne R. S. Fone: Comprised of historical and literary research, this book delves far into the past to reveal how and why homosexual desire has faced legal, social, religious, and political persecution.
Activism In General
Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Activity by Rinku Sen: Full of personal experience and case studies, Sen offers the reader guidance in how to organize and enact social change.
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times edited by Paul Rogat Loeb: This essay collection boasts works by Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Neruda, and many other famous activists from multiple points in history. This book is the perfect pick-me-up for anyone struggling to keep their head above water in these confusing times.
Whether you seek better understanding of the U.S.'s history, perspectives from minority groups, or guidance in how to create social change, these books are great picks to add to your 2017 reading list.
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Improper Mourning Rites. 1You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.a 2For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.b
Clean and Unclean Animals. 3You shall not eat any abominable thing.c 4d These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 6Any among the animals that has divided hooves, with the foot cloven in two, and that chews the cud you may eat. 7But you shall not eat any of the following that chew the cud or have cloven hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, which indeed chew the cud, but do not have divided hooves; they are unclean for you. 8And the pig, which indeed has divided hooves, with cloven foot, but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch.
9These you may eat, of all that live in the water: whatever has both fins and scales you may eat, 10but all those that lack either fins or scales you shall not eat; they are unclean for you.
11You may eat all clean birds. 12* But you shall not eat any of the following: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 13the various kites and falcons, 14all kinds of crows, 15the eagle owl, the kestrel, the long-eared owl, all species of hawks, 16the little owl, the screech owl, the barn owl, 17the horned owl, the osprey, the cormorant, 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. 19* All winged insects are also unclean for you and shall not be eaten. 20Any clean winged creatures you may eat.
21You shall not eat the carcass of any animal that has died of itself; but you may give it to a resident alien within your gates to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God.e
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.*
Tithes. 22Each year you shall tithe all the produce of your seed that grows in the field;f 23then in the place which the Lord, your God, chooses as the dwelling place of his nameg you shall eat in his presence the tithe of your grain, wine and oil, as well as the firstlings of your herd and flock, that you may learn always to fear the Lord, your God. 24h But if, when the Lord, your God, blesses you, the journey is too much for you and you are not able to bring your tithe, because the place which the Lord, your God, chooses to put his name is too far for you, 25you may exchange the tithe for money, and with the money securely in hand, go to the place which the Lord, your God, chooses. 26You may then exchange the money for whatever you desire, oxen or sheep, wine or beer, or anything else you want, and there in the presence of the Lord, your God, you shall consume it and rejoice, you and your household together.i 27But do not neglect the Levite within your gates, for he has no hereditary portion with you.j
28k At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithes of your produce for that year and deposit them within your own communities, 29that the Levite who has no hereditary portion with you, and also the resident alien, the orphan and the widow within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied; so that the Lord, your God, may bless you in all that you undertake.
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Our roster of Jewish presenters ranges from leading artists and curators to influential art historians who have risen to the top of their fields.
We bring you a wide variety of inspiring, educational and entertaining art lectures and workshops, and will be happy to provide you with information about a speaker. The amount of the fee for each speaker varies depending on a variety of factors. In addition to the speaker fee, travel expenses will, in general, be the responsibility of the host.
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Workshops may vary in length; most can be adapted to 2 – 4 hour time slots. Some require technical equipment.
Exploring Identity – Mezuzah. Writing One's Own Prayer – What Make a Jewish Home – Creating your own mezuzah.
Mezuzot have been around for centuries. There is evidence that the tradition was practiced in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period, before the year 70 CE. Over the centuries, artists around the world have crafted decorative mezuzah cases from a wide range of materials. Participants will create their own.
Embracing Sacred Time – Havdalah Set. Participants learn to create Spice Boxes, Candle Holders, Wine Cups, or Havdalah Plates.
Holiday Art Objects
Gain an exciting new understanding about the Jewish holidays through contemporary art. We will examine how leading contemporary artists have portrayed Jewish customs in images, such as Megillat Esther pages inspired by graphic novels, a seder plate on wheels, contemporary omer art & others.
Create visual work inspired by your own images or contemporary art work. Take part in discussions around these visuals.
3 Options: Purim – Make a gragger; Pesach – Make your own seder plate; Omer – make an omer counter. No artistic experience necessary.
Freedom Expanded (Passover)
In this art workshop participants will explore the meaning of freedom through both Jewish and universal lenses. The Jewish vision of freedom arises from the experience of the Israelite slaves in Egypt, reenacted each year at the Passover seder. Recent world events such as September 11th, the NSA surveillance, and Nelson Mandela's passing, invite us to contemplate our own interpretations of personal and public freedoms.
Participants will create freedom images by embossing and coloring metal foil sheets. These shapes can be square, rectangular, or cut into shapes relevant to Passover. The objects can remain individual pieces, or can be combined to create a community project: strung together with wire they make a mobile.
This can also be structured as a lecture only.
Illuminated Manuscript Painting Workshop.
Participants will be supplied with xerox copies of Jewish illuminated manuscripts to trace and copy from. We will discuss various the Megillah Esther and the Haggadah, and various customs relating to them.
Participants will be encouraged to take parts of the manuscript paintings, transform them and incorporate into a composition of their own. Painting techniques and gilding will be taught. This project will teach participants to bridge old and new, learning about and taking inspiration from Jewish religion and history to create a contemporary artwork.
Midrash and Megillah painting workshop.
The session will explore the influences of ancient cross cultural mythology and midrash. The inspiration often is drawn from ancient, traditional cultures, (like Persian miniature painting and Jewish illuminated manuscripts) yet the participants are creating contemporary art – here and now. Learn how to make these links between old and new and how to recycle stories and myth. Participants will explore this multicultural mosaic and, via hands-on experience, create their own place in it. Copies of ancient manuscript paintings and a full color copy print of the presenting artist's Esther Megillah commission will be available for reference. Participants will be encouraged to take parts of paintings, transform them and incorporate into a final composition of their own.
We will build the temple together
Audience and presenter explore the possibilities of the 3rd temple through role playing exercises and text study. Participants will be engaged in a text study and group-dynamic-performance, in which all participants become "actors" and "human props" in the environment of the performance. This piece will be followed by a short presentation on the lineage of this kind of work, citing psychological movements such as primal therapy, art collectives like fluxus, game theory and theories of progressive education.
Jewish Form in Art
When we think about "Jewish Art" we often think of art containing Jewish content: paintings with images of menorahs, historical scenes, and other Jewish symbols. Jewish form, on the other hand, is the way by which Judaism takes form: the mechanisms that make Shabbat, Seders, and Mitzvot possible. In this workshop, we will dive into the possibilities of Jewish Form and art through discussion and group work. We will read passages from the work of the media theorist/pioneer Marshall McLuhan and consider his relationship to Jewish ritual, form, and content.
The Evolution of Prayer through Play
Prayer has evolved over time. The prayers that we use today are made from historical collections of past prayer ideas, with room for personal reflection. In this workshop, we will share ideas and feelings of prayer- an often intimate subject- with the goal of uncovering new desires for worship in the process. We will map out our understanding of prayer and its potential, learn about the contemporary artist Oliver Herring, whose revolutionary and devotional performance/game TASK, will help us to generate new ideas about prayer.
Freedom through play: the dog with(out) a leash
In this workshop, this performance artist probes issues of morality and desire through engagement with workshop participants. Ask yourself: what do I desire? Why do I desire this? How does my desire relate to my personal/ Jewish ethical codes?
We live our lives by assessing our body and mind's desires, and attempting to fulfill them. What's this process all about? In this workshop the artist will lead the group through a series of exercise and performative We reflections focused on moral codes from Judaism and other religions. We will explore issues of desire, focus, and meditation, to get to the bottom of what we want, and the conflict our desires may presents to our internal moral codes.
Finding Home: "Parallels in mythology from around the world". Referring to mythologies like Indian Matsya story, Noah's Ark story, Jonah and the fish, Aleksandr Pushkin's The tale of the fisherman and the little fish" and Gilgamesh story of the Babylonian myth from 2000 BC. Also refers to science/geology for the "flood" that came about due to the rise in sea level caused by the melting of vast glaciers at the end of the Ice Age. Participants will bring to class xeroxes and objects from home about their family, culture and religion. We will tie all these stories to show students the parallels in mythologies of the world with their own personal journeys.
Creating A Community Wimple. A traditional wimple is a Torah binder. We will expand on that definition as we create one large communal art piece that represents the community and becomes a "community binder". In this session Tyvek, a non-woven polyethylene product, will serve as the "cloth" for the wimple, while scissors, paint and markers will help transform it into a new ritual object. We will revive, reinterpret and reinvent the wimple.
Making a Tallit from Tyvek. Forget what you think you know about a tallit: the shape, material, color. We'll explore new and innovative ways of fulfilling the mitzvah of tzitzit. In this workshop we will work with Tyvek, a non- woven polyethylene product that has been used for years in the construction industry and is now being embraced by designers and artists as a new medium. The Tyvek will serve as the "cloth" for the tallit, while scissors, paint, fabric, glue and markers will help transform it into a new ritual garment. Biblical texts will illustrate the requirements and prohibitions of tallit and tzitzit and The Jewish Catalogue will be used for instructions on how to tie tzitzit.
Hip-hop & Hebrews. Workshop designed to foster engagement with Judaism through the works of popular culture, as well as traditional art. Participants delve into Jewish culture and develop an inside understanding of the artistic choices that contribute to the creation of a work of art. A Powerpoint presentation introduces contemporary and traditional amulet art images, leading into popular culture images of hip-hop art. We will discuss similarities and differences with Jewish culture; and the role of amulets in Judaism. Amulets were first mentioned in the Talmud 2,000 years ago; ancient & current Kabbalists abided by them. Participants make their own amulet, either on provided precut shapes, or shapes of their own design. This provides a dialogue with their own artistic and spiritual traditions. In addition they gain exposure to a variety of drawing and painting techniques.
The Making of Super Heros and Heroines. Participants will be inspired by super heros from the comic books and also from comic inspired paintings. Participants will make a collage/painting that will depict how they plan to bring peace to the world and what symbols and stories will they use to depict that. How will their super hero look who will help them to achieve this. The concept of Tikkun ha Olam will be discussed with the students as well to show what we are doing to bring Tikkun and restoration in this world. Participants will also be encouraged to make masks of their newly fabricated super hero.
Painting the Jewish You;
Self-Portrait Painting and Jewish Narrative
. Aimed at Arts Professionals and interested laymen alike, this workshop examines autobiographical painting in the context of Jewish motifs, memory and personal narrative. The theme of self-portraiture as auto-biography is examined. What makes a strong self-portrait in formal and psychological terms?
Master painting is introduced such as Rembrandt and Van Gogh as well as Soutine and Maurycy Gottlieb. Participant's photographs are examined to see how artists introduce visual and self- disclosing clues. The issue of Jewish identity is discussed and how it can be visually portrayed. Painting is presented as a kind of memory theatre, a process to reveal hidden half- forgotten truths, cultural and personal images. The Hebrew Bible is also introduced as a seminal text of Jewish experience and is employed here to express auto-biography through visual art. Particular ritual objects such as Sabbath candles, Tallisim, T'fillin, old family photos, cooking utensils, aprons etc. are to be examined for possible visual motifs. The goal is to employ the conventions of autobiography and Jewish identity to influence an artist's oeuvre. Participants should personal objects and photos for the experiential part of the workshop.
Funny/Sad/Ironic/Ecstatic/Alienated; How to Draw Jewish Comics! A Workshop in Auto- Biography, Cartooning and Cultural Memory.
Participants will explore personal stories and visual ideas. These may be experiences of Jewish culture, family members, places and neighborhoods no longer existent. Family and personal histories are to be written down in script form and documented in a visual way. As the graphic novel revolution continues, Jewish cartoonists of every stripe have made significant contributions. The workshop may be used to explore and illustrate humor, irony, loss, lack of connection to our Jewish past, or connection to our past and future. Examples of comics and comic techniques, such as those of Will Eisner, Gary Panter and Jack Kirby will be discussed so that participants may reflect on how to get their ideas down on paper.
Intro to Hebrew Calligraphy
Learn how to use a wedge-shaped pen to create the broad and narrow strokes of Hebrew letters in calligraphy. Pens, ink, practice sheets and lettering guide will be provided. The workshop includes a power-point presentation of Hebrew calligraphic art, a demonstration of technique, and time for students to practice, with individualized help. Students will learn to make graceful letters, and to scale them to the appropriate size for various projects.
Egg Tempera Painting
Learn to paint with fresh egg yolks and pure pigments in the manner of medieval and Renaissance artists. Egg tempera paint has a brilliant, jewel-like intensity, from delicate glazes to fully saturated, opaque colors. Egg tempera is the exquisite, detail-loving, vibrantly colorful medium that was used by artists as varied as Sandro Botticelli, Andrew Wyeth and Ben Shahn. Learning how to make paint from pure pigments and egg yolk will give you insight into the nature of all paints, and improve your painting technique as you learn to paint with egg tempera. Students will learn to prepare the egg yolk, mix colors, work with glazes and opaque paint to achieve varied effects. Work will be done on ragboard panels, and all materials will be provided. Suitable for middle-age students to adults.
Seeing with Blind Contour
Work shop participants will be asked to collect any kind of organic matter. Facilitator will explain the blind contour exercise through an artistic and spiritual lens. Participants will be given a soft lead pencil (without eraser), small pencil sharpeners, and paper and be asked to do the exercise. At then end of the session we will show work and discuss the experience. Blind contour is a meditative practice of art making about seeing, noticing, and reveling in every bump and groove of an object, not about the finished product. In Jewish tradition we are often thanking Hashem for every detail of creation, but we literally look right over the rich textures of the natural world. Humans are trained to perceive everything as a symbol of its self, we tell our brains what the leaf is supposed to look like on the whole instead of finding out what it really looks like centimeter by centimeter. If the participants understand the first level of the exercise the facilitator will work with them to find the contours inside the object, not just the edges.
Looking At Your Photographs: Workshop
Get personal feedback from a photographer with 40-years experience, solo museum exhibitions and the covers of major news weeklies. Limited to 15, each participant should bring in 10-12 prints, at least 8×10 inches, and will be guaranteed 10 minutes of personal critique. Selecting the images to bring to the workshop will jump start the process of learning about your personal vision. Comments and critique will focus on how you see and why some of your images work better than others. Whether a photo enthusiast or a professional photographer, participants will leave this workshop with a better understanding of their unique vision as well as what makes a photograph successful.
Shodu Workshop (Japanese Calligraphy)
Learn the basics of Japanese calligraphy, a simple yet profound art that is as much a meditation as it is an artistic skill. Basics of character forms will be explored with participants finishing by writing their name in phonetic Japanese characters.
Live Portraiture
Minimalist portraiture for private and corporate events. These unique give-aways leave your guests with something memorable and personal to take home.
Narrative Art Workshop
This will be two 2-hour classes, utilizing drawing, painting and collage. Participants will gather photos of what is important to them, their family, their home, their city, etc. These will be analyzed from an artistic perspective to be used as a collage, drawing, or painting. Instructor will work with participants to create the arrangement which best describes the story the student wishes to tell. Please email email@example.com to see this artist's examples of various narrative works. The participants will be encouraged to experiment with various visual approaches given guidance by the artist. EndFragment
Tikun Olam – Jewish Artists Respond
Jewish artists have made an impact confronting such issues and movements of the 20th Century as wars, civil rights, and freedom itself.
The Whole Megillah and Jewish Book Illustrators.
The Book of Esther can be considered as the first book to be illustrated by Jewish artists, but there is a more recent rich history of Jewish artists illustrating, and often writing, some of our best-loved books.
Moses and the Comic Book Superheroes.
A historic look at Haggadahs and an insight into the Jewish origins which influenced the creation of both comic book superheroes and the concept of modern-day graphic novels.
Jewish Women Artists Impacting Twentieth Century Art.
The Jewish backgrounds and values which influenced these artists to become founders of and participants in the major art movements of the past century despite often being discriminated against, not for being Jewish, but for being female.
Jewish Photographers Documenting War, Peace, and Life.
Jewish photographers have made major impact on photojournalism, fine art photography and developments in the medium itself.
Jewish Artists and the Holocaust.
Jewish artists have chronicled the horrors of the Holocaust, visualizing the personal testimonies of victims and survivors. Artists who came after have been moved to create memorials reminding the world to "Never Forget".
Cairo to Baghdad: Living and Photographing in the Middle-East (50 images)
A behind-the-scenes look at the Middle-East. As the photographer projects her work she will share stories about her adventures as a Jewish-American woman, the countries and peoples she got to know, and some of her extraordinary experiences in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, and the Sudan. You'll hear about raids with Egypt's drug enforcement agency, the women fighters of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, Iraqi Kurdish refugees in Turkey, and the photographer's lunch with Yasser Arafat and his entourage in Kuwait. You'll see images of Islamic and Pharaonic Monuments in Egypt and learn about coming face to face with the infamous Abu Abbas who pushed Leon Klinghoffer, in his wheelchair, off the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Based in Cairo from 1986-1990 and working with an American photo agency, her clients included TIME, Newsweek, and LIFE Magazines, US News & World Report, New York Times, and the Sunday Times of London.
Forgotten Heritage – Retracing Jewish Heritage in New York (and other American cities including Detroit), photographic journey documenting Jewish heritage in American cities with a strong focus on New York City
Diaspora. A presentation of the Artist's vast portfolio of Jewish communities from Cuba to Morocco.
Between Past and Present. A portrait of Jewish life in Europe between history and heritage preservation and renaissance of Jewish life.
The Jewish Identity Project. A series of photographs exploring Jewish diversity
Hip Hop, Gangs, and the Marrano Connection. Photographs and illustrations related to graphic novel project
Jewish Virtual Life. Lecture on the strange phenomenon of Jewish life in the virtual world of Second Life, put into a wider context of virtual Jewish communities online
After the Exodus. Lecture on Ethiopia's approach to its Jewish heritage, be it the claim that the Queen of Sheba had a child with King Solomon, and that the Ark of the Covenant is in Ethiopia, as well as the country's approach to the Beta Israel and their legacy
Hip-hop & Hebrews. Explore Judaism through the works of popular culture and amulet art. Introducing contemporary and traditional amulet art images, leading into popular culture images of hip-hop art. We will discuss rap and hip-hop: its similarities and differences with Jewish culture; and the role of amulets in Judaism.
BIBLICAL and HOLIDAYS
Drawing on the Bible- Images of Biblical Women in Art
Based upon her book "Drawing on the Bible" this artist presents a visual dialog between the images of Biblical women as they have been portrayed over the centuries and the stories of individual figures from Eve to Esther. From Reviews of DOB: "At long last the veils have been lifted from the women of the Bible,and we can finally get a better look at who they really are. The artistic images so skillfully analyzed help to satisfy our longings to know Sarah, Miriam, Ruth and others better..her sensitive insightful commentary on both text and image is in itself a rich new midrash", Betsy Platkin Teutsch co-author of The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols. "Compelling and scholarly; yet accessible, it deserves an honored place on shelves of anyone with a serious interest in the portrayal of women in Biblical literature..it is truly learned, incisive and psychologically acute" Marc M Epstein, Dept of Religion at Vassar College.
Esther's Day: Purim in Art (50 images)
Sarah's Trials. 16 large paintings on the life of Sarah (2010)
Hagar the Stranger. 16 large paintings on the life of Hagar (2012).
Dura Europos: Then and Now – Contemporary Appropriations of Biblical Themes. The Dura Europos synagogue in present day Syria featured the earliest known Jewish visual art in the form of extensive figurative wall-paintings. This lecture discusses and shows images of "The Dura Europos Project: An ancient site revisited through 21st century eyes". Artists examined what the ancient Dura Europos artists did and they provide their own contemporary interpretations.
Fereshteh. ("Angels" in Urdu), the Artist explores the women of the bible and brings them forward to combat the wars and violence of today in a Midrash (interpretation) of lush paintings. The Artist, a Bene Israel Jew originally from India, now living in the US, is inspired by the style of Indian/Persian miniature paintings, Sephardic icons, the socio-political climate of today and in exploring the cultural boundary zones of her immigrant self. Explore the midrashic journey of a contemporary artist, as the women of the Torah are brought to life in her paintings in a new and avant-garde way.
We are Patriarchs
We are Patriarchs evokes the legacy of Biblical characters and archetypes drawing them into the 21st Century with contemporary oil portraits that suggest classical European master painters by way of Anglo-Japanese Japonisme, and graffiti street art. These 15 works display the multi-cultural melting pot of global Jewry from award winning gourmet chefs to renowned world musicians, bloggers, converts, Rabbis, and tattooed heroines all equally featured. Each is a representation of a prominent figure from the Hebrew tradition, leaders in their time who continue to inspire. The Bible states that there were 10 generations from the creation of Adam to Noah's flood, and 10 more from The Flood to Abraham and monotheism. The artist reinterprets this for a new era finding significance in the 10 generations from the Industrial Revolution to today. Modern technology has enabled the most informed, educated generation and yet we are lost in a sea of choices that ignore the wisdom of our predecessors.
Feminism and Contemporary Jewish Art. (40 images)
A new creative spirit: How contemporary Jewish artists are forming partnerships with American museums, synagogues and institutions. Newly formed art groups such as the Jewish Art Salon, Art Kibbutz NY and Jewish Art Now have initiated an entrepreneurial approach to exposing the public to exciting new art.
Revolutionizing the Jewish Art Community. Emerging and established cutting-edge Jewish artists have banded together to form closer bonds and to create new opportunities.
The Borscht Belt: A Contemporary History In Images from Rise to Relic
Photographic survey of the former and cherished era known as the Borscht Belt while reflecting upon the processes and transformations of time. The photographer has been revisiting her hometown region over the past three years to document any remains of this former era she can find. We will view selections from the series which contains over 80 photographs, including a re-photographic series of "now" and "then" imagery composed by using found postcards and creating a mirror image of their present day depictions.
The photographer, service number 7253892, graduate of the paratroopers' brigade, regiment 890, will talk about the time he served at the elite combat unite in IDF, and how it's affected his artistic ability. The photography is his best therapy; one learns to understand what the experiences of those kids at the age of 18.
Judaism, Art, and Healing
Presenter is a survivor of breast cancer for whom Jewish ritual, prayer, text study, and chants were the spiritual mainstay during her illness and treatment. After recovering, she collected stories from other Jewish people about how they used Jewish practice in a creative way to help them through their own or a loved ones' illness. The resulting book, Hard Blessings: Jewish Ways Through Illness, includes these stories and her artwork inspired by the stories. The lecture will include discussion of how she and the other contributors took Judaism personally at a time of illness and include a display of her art from the book.
The Impact of Jews on Modern Art
As artists, critics, art historians, collectors and gallerists, Jews have had an impact on Modern and post-Modern art far disproportionate to their numbers. This illustrated lecture surveys some of the cultural, social and historical factors that gave rise to this creative flowering. This lecture poses the question: who is a Jewish artist? Recent scholarship will be discussed regarding this ongoing debate. The transition of Jewish influence from virtual absence to pre-eminence in the world of fine art will be discussed in the context of 19th-20th century history. The stars of art, criticism and academia will be surveyed, with a consideration to how they interacted with each other and the art world at large.
My Jewish Journey Through Art – Ketubah
This illustrated lecture depicts the artist's love affair with the art of the ketubah since she started making them at age 17. She discusses how the ketubah expresses her creative and Jewish identity, while allowing her to impact and expand this art form. Her work combines personal expression with the transmission of the stories of her couples, who participate in the creative process. made over 500 hand-written, uniquely personalized, commissioned Ketubot (illuminated Hebrew marriage contracts). She shares her explorations of Hebrew calligraphy in fired-enamel on glass, gold-leaf, acrylic on canvas, hand-painted silk, etc. She discusses how Hebrew calligraphy and Torah study are interwoven in her creative expression as an artist.
Blue Like Me: The Art of an Indian Jewess. Growing up in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim society, educated in Catholic and Zoroastrian schools, raised Jewish in India and now living in the U.S., the Artist has always been driven to reflect upon the cultural boundary zones in which she have lived. With this background in a multi-cultural America, she is compelled to create art that speaks of shared similarities with her audience. The Artist's intent for her viewers is to re-evaluate their notions and concepts about identity and race, hoping to peel back layers of misconceptions that may result in racism, hate and war. This lecture could be accompanied by a section on the artist's childhood growing up Jewish in a multicultural India. Photos and information about the 2000 year old Indian Jewish community will be embellished with personal Jewish photos from the Artist's family album. Most of the Artist's family now lives in three different continents; share her story and journey about this Diasporic Bene Israel Indian Jewish family
Hipsters & Hassids: Painting Bridges in New York
Hipsters & Hassids is a series of paintings that present the similarities these two Brooklyn communities share despite their obvious differences. The facilitator is an artist and a religious Jew, often finding herself caught between the two worlds.
The painting series consists of 25 works which have since been written about in the New York Times, New York Press, Tablet Magazine, the Jewish Week, among other publications and websites, including the Punk Jews documentary film. The series has inspired other projects, including the blog hasidorhipster.tumblr.com and other convergences of Hassidic Judaism and hipster culture.
The Golden Age of Jewish Art: Contemporary Jewish Art and Its Advocates (30 images)
Jewish Art Primer: Introduction to Jewish Art. (145 images) 4 lectures
Faces: Weaving Indian Jewish Narratives
. The Fullbright art project raises western awareness about the long-standing history of the Indian Jewish communities in India by documenting, using photography and painting, the individual faces and stories of this ancient group and their heritage before their existence becomes a cultural relic of India. The Artist visited the Bene Israel people living in and around Mumbai and Pune. Their stories have inspired her to create the iconography in her paintings. Fine art printers have printed the portraits of these people, isolating their faces on large pieces of paper. The Artist is painting the stories and iconography around their faces in the paintings referencing painting styles reminiscent of Indian/Persian miniature paintings, Sephardic icons, the socio-political climate of today.
This is a powerpoint presentation about the Artist's journey through Jewish India in search of her roots and heritage. Audience will see and hear stories about the remaining 5000 Jews left in India. Most have immigrated to Israel but these Indian Jews have lived in the subcontinent for over 2000 years keeping their Jewish faith alive in a Hindu, Muslim cosmopolitan India for all these centuries.
Envisioning Women: The artist and the Art of Midrash. The practice of interpreting biblical text dates back nearly 2,000 years to the first rabbinic midrashim. Visual artists have unique gifts for interpreting texts and unique tools for creating midrash. Experience this tradition through the eyes of an artist, gaining new insights into familiar stories and characters as the Artist shares her vision in this presentation.
On Becoming a Jewish Artist
This artist has worked on over two dozen painting series. He began his series of Israel, current and Biblical, including Midrash themed works in 1993 and his series on American Jewish Life in 1995. These are ongoing and at present number over 500 paintings and drawings. Selected examples will be projected and discussed.
Learn the basics of Japanese calligraphy, a simple yet profound art that is as much a meditation as it is an artistic skill. Basics of character forms will be explored with participants finishing by writing their name in phonetic Japanese characters.
Minimalist portraiture for private and corporate events. These unique give-aways leave your guests with something memorable and personal to take home.


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Goodbye (Again) To The Last Rolls Of Kodachrome Film
Last week when I was home for the holidays, my father surprised us all with something special. Taped to the cabinet above the coffee maker was a hand-scrawled sign that read: "O'Neill family slideshow Tonight @ 7." Upstairs, he had brushed the dust from an old projector, and neatly stacked 12 boxes of Kodachrome and Ektachrome slide film that none of us children had ever seen.
We gathered around a blank wall and watched the first image flicker: My parents in their 20s, young and relaxed. It was probably the first photo taken during what my father describes as his "slide phase," which lasted about six years.
I must note that my family is not one for attention span, but during this particularly sentimental three-hour viewing, there was hardly a budge. We watched the many wild incarnations of my mother's hair. Distant relatives enter and exit the frame. Grandparents looking more like parents. Travels, dinners, their first house. Their wedding day, which we'd never seen before (the photographer my father hired that day was a no-show). My sister's big 1979 debut.
For various reasons it was probably the most bittersweet thing we've ever done as a family, completely drenched in nostalgia. That's the paradox of slide film: It has a hefty permanence and tangibility to it, but is almost by definition a nostalgic experience. You only haul those boxes out on special occasions but when you do, it really is a special occasion.
Today that nostalgia is writ-large as amateur and professional photographers around the world issue a final farewell to Kodachrome. The darling slide film was retired by Kodak in 2009. And for the past year, countless "last rolls" have been shot and sent to a small lab for processing. Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kan., has been the last remaining photo lab in the world to process the color slide film. But today Dwayne's is closing the proverbial Kodachrome door and officially ending its processing service.
I asked Dwayne Steinle, owner of the photo lab, to recall some of the more remarkable imagery that he'd seen and processed over the years. "Everything on Kodachrome seems to be remarkable for the person who took it," he says.
Which gets to the heart of this goodbye. It's not all about the National Geographic cover images or the Kodak ads shot on the film. It's about your past and mine, sitting in boxes, waiting to be projected. The photo of my mother in a green raincoat will never rival the green eyes of the Afghan girl. But it will always be iconic in our house.
So there are three "last rolls" of Kodachrome. There's the last roll ever produced by Kodak. That roll was given to photographer Steve McCurry, who shot half of it in New York City, and half of it in India, where many of his iconic images were made. There's the last roll ever processed; the photos on that roll are by Dwayne Steinle, the last of which will be taken today. And there's everyone else's last roll. Mine is currently somewhere in transit from Kansas.
"It's what some people like to call progress," Dwayne Steinle says. "But it's very disappointing that we have this particular film at the end of its run." As for Dwayne's: Business will continue -- as will photography. It's not the end of the world, but is certainly the end of an era.
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The Leaky Gut Protocol:
Leaky gut or intestinal permeability syndrome is a condition in which the gut lining is damaged. In this condition, large food particles, bacteria and environmental toxins are able to seep into the blood stream and cause problems in the body. This article goes into detail on various supplement strategies to help the body heal and seal the gut through our leaky gut protocol.
As a clinician, I always suspect leaky gut whenever I have patients with chronic immune related issues. There are many factors that contribute to the development of leaky gut syndrome and I discuss this all in detail in this article here
In this article, I detail as well as possible, the stages I take my clients through on the leaky gut protocol. There is a tremendous amount of variability from person to person, but this is the foundational elements of the leaky gut protocol and I give advice on what to do if certain symptoms pop-up along the way.
Gut Inflammation and Leaky Gut:
Systemic infection has killed more people in the history of mankind than anything else. The immune system is hardwired to fight to the death to prevent infection from dominating and destroying the body.
When the gut lining is damaged, it allows for large food particles, bacteria and environmental debris to get into the blood stream. This influx of foreign debris primes the immune system which mistakes these food particles for dangerous infectious microbes.
The primed up immune system goes out on a major assault on food particles, bacteria and toxins in the blood stream causing serious inflammatory activity that can cross into various tissues such as the joints, thyroid, brain, skin and the gut lining itself. This can result in all different forms of chronic disease and autoimmunity.
Conditions Underlying Leaky Gut Syndrome:
There are many conditions underlying leaky gut syndrome that I describe in this article. Some of the major factors that need to be addressed are the dysbiotic conditions of poor bacterial balance around the gut lining. This could be due to any of the following:
1) Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO): A condition described here which involved an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine. These bacteria break down food particles and create toxic debris, gas and inflammation.
2) Candida Overgrowth: Candida refers to a group of yeast species that are common to our intestines. With the proper conditions, these yeast organisms can take control of the gut membrane and other mucous membranes of the body and wreak havoc. You can learn more about Candida in this article here.
3) Parasites: There are many different parasites as described here that can make their way into the body and given the proper conditions they can take over control inside the gut. Once they take over control they steal valuable nutrients and release toxic chemicals that irritate our immune system and cause system wide inflammation.
How To Begin the Process:
The leaky gut protocol begins with a 3-5 day fasting cleanse called the reset phase. During this period the individual should consume organic broths. Bone broth provides a megadose of critical nutrients like gelatin and key amino acids that support the rapidly growing cells in the gut and soothe inflammation and scarring of the gut lining.
You can also use anti-microbial herbs such as oregano oil and peppermint oil in the broth to help reduce the microbial load in the gut. Herbal tea blends to help reduce microbial count (Pau D'Arco), improve digestive function (ginger and peppermint) and strengthen the gut lining (slippery elm) are all highly recommended.
Additionally the individual is recommended to drink water with raw apple cider vinegar (ACV) to help reduce microbial counts. The ACV is a powerful sterilizer that bad bacteria, yeast and parasites do not like. It helps to reduce their populations and improve the overall dynamics of the digestive system.
You can read more about the nutrition plan to heal leaky gut here
Reset Period:
During the reset period of the leaky gut protocol it is key for the individuals to consume organic acids and fluids so using apple cider vinegar and/or lemon in water is especially useful. It is also recommended to use herbal teas and coconut oil throughout the day. These will help strengthen the body through the fast and provide good clean fats and anti-oxidants.
Drinking pure aloe vera juice here can also be very healing on the digestive tract and can promote healthy bowel movements. On the leaky gut protocol it is important to be moving your bowels to prevent against toxic fermentation in the gut.
1) GI Clear:
This supplement is a blend of natural anti-microbials that have a powerful effect on reducing bad bacteria, yeast and parasitic counts. This is made up of berberine, barberry, black walnut powder, sweet wormwood and other anti-microbial herbs.
Mild Cases: 1 cap – 2x daily on an empty stomach
Moderate Cases: 2 caps – 2x daily on an empty stomach
Severe Cases: 3 caps – 2-3x daily on an empty stomach
I like to use this product through the whole 30-day Digestive Health Restoration program of the leaky gut protocol.
2) Proteo Enzymes:
Systemic enzymes are used to break down the protein layer of biofilm that is produced by bacteria to protect themselves. Biofilms are bacterial populations that adhere to each other and other surfaces within a self-produced extra-cellular matrix. The biofilm creates a pod-like intracellular bulge on the gut wall.
Biofilms offer bacterial and yeast species incredible survival advantages. These include the ability to horizontally transfer genetic material, shelter from environmental changes, protection from the host immune system, sharing of metabolic byproducts, tolerance and adaptability to antimicrobials.
Proteolytic enzymes disrupt these biofilms and make the bacteria more susceptible to the bodies immune system and the usage of anti-microbials and anti-biotics.
Normal Protocol: Take 3 caps in the morning on an empty stomach
Advanced Protocol: Take 6 caps in the morning on an empty stomach or as directed by your health care practitioner.
*This product should be taken at least 2 hours before or after consuming food for best results*
Improve Your Detoxification Systems:
When the body is overrun by bad microorganisms there is an overproduction of toxic metabolites that must be deactivated and eliminated by the body. When this is a chronic condition, it overwhelms the liver which causes increased whole body toxicity and immune dysregulation. This leads to higher inflammatory loads and possible auto-immunity or cancer development.
We use the thyroliver protect to help deactive metabolites. This product contains clinically effective doses of milk thistle, N-Acetyl cysteine, selenium and alpha lipoic acid that support phase I-II liver detoxification and protect the gut lining and kidneys.
Normal Protocol: Take 1 capsule – 2x daily, with meals (first and last meal)
Advanced Protocol: Take 2 capsules – 2x daily, with meals (first and last meal) or as directed by your health care practitioner.
Sweep Out the Toxic Debris:
As the microbes die off they release tons of toxic debris that inflames the body if it isn't eliminated. The activated charcoal has millions of tiny pores that capture and bind materials in an absorbent manner, much like a sponge. Due to the absorbent qualities they can grab over 100 times their own weight in toxins.
Taking the activated charcoal during the leaky gut protocol helps my clients feel so much more comfortable during the healing process.
Normal Protocol: Take 2 Activated Charcoal in the mid-morning and 2 caps in the mid-afternoon (at least an hour away from food, supplements or medications)
Advanced Protocol: Take 4 capsules of Activated Charcoal in the mid-morning and 4 caps in the mid-afternoon (and an hour before/after other supplements or medications) or as directed by your health care practitioner.
Repairing the Gut Lining:
During the reset phase of the leaky gut protocol, while we are resetting the microbial load in our GI tract, we can begin the process of healing and repairing the gut lining. The Gut Repair product has compounds within it that enhance the repair of the gut lining.
I have found that individuals with severe SIBO may struggle with the arabinogalactan fiber within the Gut repair. Others thrive off of it during this 30-day program because the fiber helps to strengthen the gut microflora. If you struggle with fiber and higher FODMAPS foods than I would avoid it and use a pure L-glutamine instead.
Gut Repair: This is a blend of nutrients designed to heal and seal the gut membrane and replenish the mucosal membrane.
Moderate-Severe Cases – 3-4 spoonfulls daily Mild-Mod Cases: 1-3 spoonfulls daily
On the leaky gut protocol, I will often times have some of my clients take additional L-glutamine which has a powerful effect on improving the healing of the gut lining. I have supplemented people with 30 grams a day with very good results. I am often very cautious however, as some individuals do not metabolize L-glutamine well and can overproduce neuronal glutamine levels and cause brain cell excitotoxicity.
The major symptom these individuals experience is increased, fatigue, anxiety and irritability when they consume L-glutamine. I typically have people start with 4-10 grams daily and then slowly go up 5 grams at a time while we monitor to see if any of these issues come about.
Strengthen Your Gut Defense:
Your intestinal system has its own immune system which is led by an immune compound called secretory Immunoglobin A (sIgA). sIgA protects against the overgrowth of bacteria, yeast and parasites within the intestinal environment. Its main job is to protect the gut lining from assault and reduce the risk of infection.
I find that many individuals who struggle with SIBO, Candida and parasites have reduced and altered levels of sIgA. As long as levels of sIgA remain low, it allows for an overproliferation of bad microflora and increased risk of gut irritation.
For certain cases, I use a high quality IgG supplement that improves sIgA levels which is the immune component of the gut membrane. This is very important for preventing future parasitic and/or yeast or bacterial infections.
This is a bovine colostrum product, which means that it is made from the special immunoglobins secreted during a cow's first milking. Colostrum is one of the most immunosupportive substances on the planet. Most people with milk sensitivities do great with colostrum but I never give it to anyone who has an extreme allergy (anaphalaxis) just to be on the safe side.
You can read all about this product here
Severe: 2 caps of 500 mg – 2x daily Mild-Moderate – 1-2 caps of 500mg -1x daily
ReBuilding Phase:
As we move into the rebuilding phase of the leaky gut protocol, we want to support the digestive process and reduce stress on the digestive organs while maximizing nutrient absorption. Most people with leaky gut syndrome have problems with hydrochloric (HCL) acid production and pancreatic enzyme production.
Low HCL and enzyme production leads to poorly digested food particles. When these food particles are not digested well they create a breeding ground for pathogenic microorganisms who will metabolize them and create toxic chemicals, gas, etc.
Symptoms of Low Stomach Acid:
Low Stomach Acid:
One of the biggest things that I see associated with low HCL is low-energy shortly after eating a low-carb, higher protein meal. Before you begin the leaky gut protocol, do this quick test to see if you need to use HCL with your meals. Try eating 2 eggs or a piece of chicken and see how you feel over the next few hours. If you are sluggish and have digestive issues, it is most likely associated with low HCL and digestive enzymes.
I also review an at-home baking soda stomach acid test in this article that will help you understand if you have low-HCL. You can also take an HCL supplement with a protein based meal (6 oz or so of protein is best for the test) and see if you notice a burning feeling in your stomach (not in your upper chest – that is acid reflux and could be a sign of too low HCL). If you do, it is a sign you either have an ulcer or have too much HCL and do not need to supplement.
You can continue doing this until you notice the burning sensation. Then drop it by one cap and take that with each protein meal until you notice the burning again. So if 5 caps made you burn, try using 4 caps with each meal. I see many clients with severe digestive issues need 6-8 capsules of HCL until they notice the burning.
Using ginger, peppermint and apple cider vinegar in water throughout the day will help enhance HCL production and overtime as you are taking care of your digestive system you will be able to reduce the amount of HCL caps you need to properly digest your food.
Acid Prozyme:
Acid Pro-Zyme is formulated with a variety of compounds and is designed to support gastric acidity, digestion and normal gastrointestinal flora. Acid Pro-Zyme should be taken with, or immediately following a meal. Do not use if there is a prior history of, or a current complaint of, a peptic or duodenal ulcer.
Mild: 1-2 caps with each protein meal
Moderate: 2-4 caps with each protein meal
Severe: 4-6+ caps with each protein meal
Super D-Zyme:
Enzymes are extremely key for breaking down carbohydrates, protein and fatty acids and prepare them for proper digestion and assimilation in the body. Individuals with digestive challenges are often unable to produce sufficient quantities of digestive enzymes and are unable to effectively digest the food they are eating.
This is a great product to use daily as well as on the leaky gut protocol for a number of reasons:
- Includes a Wide Variety of Enzymes: Many different enzyme subtypes to give a wide array of effects and address all digestive enzymatic effects. This includes carbohydrate metabolizing enzymes, proteolytic enzymes and fat- metabolizing enzymes.
- Functions in a Wide pH Range: There are significant pH ranges in the stomach and small intestine. These enzymes are formulated to survive and thrive in a number of different ranges.
- BioAvailable Enzymes are Key to Reducing Intestinal Stress: Intestinal stress is a major contributor to the formation of leaky gut syndrome. Bioavailable enzymes reduce the stress on the gut and improve nutrient absorption.
Mild: 1-2 caps with each meal
Moderate: 2-4 caps with each meal
Severe: 4-6 caps with each meal
Soil-Based Probiotics:
The last step of the rebuilding phase is bringing in some low-impact, hypoallergenic spore-forming probiotics. Many individuals with leaky gut have trouble with lactobacillus strains of probiotics. For these challenging cases, I only use spore forming soil-based organisms and have found them to be extraordinarily well-tolerated and life-changing for these individuals.
The Prescript – Assist contains a proprietary formula of humic and fulvic acids that help support the growth and development of the good microbes within the intestinal tract. Both humic and fulvic acids are major organic constituents of soil, coal, streams, lakes and ocean water.
Humic substances are considered the most chemically active compounds in soil. Fulvic acid contains over 60 minerals and trace elements and is essential for cellular health. Humans always consumed these humic substances by consuming dirt on fruits and vegetables. Today, we wash and over sterilize all our produce and very rarely get any of these highly beneficial soil compounds.
These humic substances act as powerful electrolytes and anti-oxidants. They are also natural chelators that bind and pull out toxic substances such as pesticides, herbicides, bad microbes and heavy metals. There colloidal nature allows them to help the cells to more efficiently respirate, hydrate, absorb nutrients such as amino acids and eliminate wastes more effectively.
This combination of benefits allows for a healthier internal environment which enhances the probiotics ability to flourish. These substances provide a multitude of benefits but are currently classified as pre-biotics because of their beneficial effects on the gut flora.
Mild: Take 1 capsule daily away from meals
Moderate: Take 1-2 capsules 1-2x daily away from meals
Severe: Take 2+ capsules, 2x daily, away from meals
Additional Supplementation:
Adapt Strong:
I often see people with severe digestive issues that struggle with adrenal fatigue. During adrenal fatigue, the body cannot produce enough cortisol to keep them energized and active throughout the day. They often crash at points during the day and need to nap.
They often do not even respond to stimulants like caffeine because they have gotten to the point of adrenal exhaustion and are incapable of producing enough stress hormone to keep their energy up. This can also lead to lack of emotional control and depression.
Cortisol helps to reduce inflammation in the body. That is why cortico-steroids are prescribed to those with major inflammatory issues. When cortisol is stable, it keeps us energized and reduces inflammation. When cortisol is unstable and too low at periods of time during the day (or all day), we end up with increased inflammation. This inflammation impairs the digestive system's ability to heal and rebuild.
As long as cortisol rhythm is out of balance, the gut will not fully heal and seal. If you are dealing with adrenal fatigue, you want to support your cortisol production while healing your gut. I use Adapt-Strong is my go to supplement to support the bodies ability to adapt effectively to stress, manage cortisol levels and support stable energy levels.
Mild Adrenal Fatigue: 1 cap – 2x daily (morning and afternoon)
Moderate Adrenal Fatigue: 2 caps – 2x daily (morning and afternoon)
Severe Adrenal Fatigue: 3 caps 2-3x daily (morning, afternoon, evening)
Putting This All Together:
I know this was a lot of info and you are probably wondering where to start on the leaky gut protocol If you can only afford one supplement, I would probably take the probiotics but it is different based on the unique factors involved in each case. Everyone is different and there is no leaky gut protocol that works the same for everyone.
This is what I find works well for most (80%) of the cases I have worked with and many of my colleagues have seen.
Reset Phase:
1) GI Regulator – Take for 1-6 months depending upon degree of microbial overgrowth. This supplement kills off bad microbes but also helps to balance blood sugar levels which is another key process in healing leaky gut. If one has a parasitic overgrowth, they may need a specific anti-parasitic supplement as well.
2) Proteo Enzymes: Take 3-6 caps 1-2x daily for 30 days to reduce inflammation in the body and break down bacterial biofilms.
3) L-Glutamine or Gut Repair: Beginning with 3-6 grams daily and working up to 20+ grams daily. This is a powerful support nutrient for rebuilding the gut lining.
4) Adapt-Strong: Help to balance stress hormone and improve cortisol regulation.
5) Thyroliver Protect: Helps to deactivate toxins and strengthen the liver.
6) Activated Charcoal: To help bind and sweep toxins from the colon.
ReBuilding Phase:
Continue to take the supplements from the reset phase of the leaky gut protocol. Add these 3 to improve digestion and help to rebuild the gut lining.
1) SBO Probiotic: Hypoallergic, soil based organism to begin the formation of healthy microbes to strengthen the gut lining and reduce the level of bad microbes.
2) Acid Prozyme: Taking this in the middle or right at the end of each protein containing meal is very important to ensure adequate digestion.
3) Super D-Zyme: Take this a few mins before you begin your meal to ensure proper digestion. Additionally, make sure you fully chew your food until it is fully liquid in your mouth which will help to take stress off of the digestive tract and reduce the need for enzymes.
ReInnoculation Phase:
Continue with the supplements on the leaky gut protocol above. Depending upon lab tests or recommendations from your functional nutrition practitioner you may decide to add in colostrum or Gut Defense. I like to start small and work to a larger dosage with this.
You may also want to add in core supplements such as fish oil, vitamin D3/K2 and anti-oxidant support. Additionally, if you have had a histamine intolerance, you will want to add in Allergy Defense.
After 30 Day Protocol:
At this point in the leaky gut protoco, depending upon how you are responding, some of these supplements can be reduced. I often will take people off of the GI Regulator, Proteo Enzymes and the Thyroliver protect at this point. If the individual tells me their energy is great all day, we reduce or remove the Adapt-Strong.
I typically recommend the individual stay on L-glutamine or gut repair for another month and acid prozyme, probiotics and the digestive enzymes for 3-6 months.
It is possible for one to come off of all of these if they were healthy enough to begin with and have a really good diet that is rich in bone broth, collagen protein and L-glutamine, fermented foods and drinks that are rich in probiotics and enzymes and use digestive bitters such as apple cider vinegar, ginger and peppermint to continually strengthen HCL production.


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Trust Serverless During Critical Times to Stay Focused on Business Value – and Sleep Better, Too
You are in charge of your company's website and all the integration APIs. It is 3 a.m., and you wake up in a cold sweat. You recall reading about a recently identified Linux security vulnerability. Did the team patch the operating systems? Were the applications re-deployed? After a few moments, you realize it was just a flashback to the days before your company migrated to AWS. You remember that you now are leveraging a serverless application approach. You smile – and calmly fall back to sleep.
SPR recently hosted an AWS Serverless Immersion Day, covering the value of serverless applications. Here, we continue the topic of the workshop, specifically how serverless architectures impact application security.
If you are not sure what serverless means, see our article Why You Should Use a Serverless Application. The definition that we like to use at SPR is that it "allows you to invest in delivering business value, not infrastructure."
Shared Responsibility Model
AWS states that "security is job zero," and this is a great attitude to take whenever building any application. The Shared Responsibility Model states that AWS is responsible for "Security of the Cloud," and the customer is responsible for "Security in the Cloud." Let's look at what that means in a traditional cloud application.
This shared responsibility assumes you are not running your applications in a serverless fashion. It shows you are responsible for securing the platform and the operating system of the EC2 instances. Let's see how a serverless approach changes this.
Serverless shifts more of the security to "security of the cloud" because AWS becomes responsible for more of the infrastructure.
As we move from server-full to server-less (see graph above), AWS becomes responsible for the security of the physical machines, operating system, and runtime environment.
Transitioning to serverless allows you to focus on securing the application layer through authentication and authorization. When developing serverless applications, all interactions with AWS infrastructure occurs via service APIs, and AWS IAM protects all the services.
Identity and Access Management
Security in a serverless environment shifts to service security based on IAM instead of based on infrastructure security.
While AWS IAM is the foundation for all services, it is particularly crucial in serverless applications. AWS IAM is the one service that everyone should understand how to use. Breaking an application into smaller micro-services enables applying the principle of least privilege and only grant enough authorization for the service to perform the business task.
Let us look a little deeper at how AWS secures two of the foundational serverless services: Lambda and API Gateway.
Lambda Security
We've talked about using IAM to secure the services that a Lambda function needs to access. Now, we are going to look at how AWS secures the execution environment for Lambda functions.
When a Lambda function executes, AWS manages both provisioning the execution environment and the resources necessary to run your code.
What is an execution environment?
An execution environment provides the resources necessary to execute Lambda functions. The execution environment exists for the lifetime of the function. When complete, the environment can be destroyed or reused by another invocation of the same function. Sharing does not occur between execution environments. This function level isolation ensures that data from one function is never available to a different function.
Every execution environment runs on the AWS microVM called Firecracker. A microVM is dedicated to an AWS account yet can be reused by execution environments across functions within an account, providing a robust isolation model.
This execution isolation ensures that environments are not able to access or modify data that belongs to other environments.
AWS provides all of this capability for us and abstracts away the details. As serverless developers, we can focus on the business value, and AWS manages the security of the execution environment.
API Gateway Security
How do we secure the entry point to our services? How can we be sure the principal accessing the endpoint authenticated successfully and is authorized to do so?
Let's look at three ways to secure an API Gateway endpoint:
- API Key. An API Keys can be generated and are typically associated with a Rate plan. Tying an API key to a rate plan provides the ability to enforce limits, so a caller does not exceed a reasonable usage threshold.
- Cognito Authorizer. Cognito is an AWS Service that manages and authenticates users. Users authenticate against the Cognito service and get a security token. This security token is then used on subsequent invocations of the API and validated.
- Lambda Authorizer. Using a Lambda allows for any custom authentication and authorization implementations.
Notice how AWS manages the security of the cloud. They enforce rate limits or authenticating against Cognito, leaving the security in the cloud up to the customer. In this case, security in the cloud means managing the API Keys, approving users in the Cognito User Pool, or custom authentication. AWS handles the lower-level infrastructure and mechanics of securing the API.
Parting Thoughts
Let's recap the main points from what we've learned:
- AWS is responsible for more security in a serverless environment.
- Using a serverless approach to application development increases the amount of security of the cloud that AWS will manage, and reduces the security in the cloud that you have to manage.
- Serverless environments are all about Events and APIs. The way AWS permissions these are with IAM Roles and Policies to allow for fine-grained access to implement a security policy of least privilege.
- Learn and understand AWS IAM. AWS IAM is the foundation for serverless security, making it the essential service to know and understand.
Ready for what's next?
Together, we can help you identify the challenges facing you right now and take the first steps to elevate your cloud environment.


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The Flick (at Playwrights Horizons through April 7)
Here are some things that do not happen in Annie Baker's new play The Flick. A confessed love is not reciprocated. An unconfessed love is not reciprocated. (I think; much is mysterious.) A friend does not, in a pinch, help a friend. A sad person does not learn a happy lesson. The audience does not get a moral, or even a subject.
Also missing in action: action. No one does anything generally regarded as theatrical.
So what does happen in The Flick? A lot of sweeping and mopping of the floor of a grotty old movie house near Worcester, Massachusetts. Also the tenderest drama — funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking — now playing at a theater near you.
Hard to say how this happens, but it begins with negation. As if to banish expectations of traditional storytelling, Baker specifies a crazy two-minute blast of bombast — Bernard Herrmann's opening for The Naked and the Dead — as a kind of overture, while an indecipherable flicker of images is projected from the set's back wall onto us in the audience. (We are the screen.) The music is so overwrought in its late Romantic writhing that when the first scene finally starts we are grateful for its extreme banality. A 35-year-old guy who works for the cinema simply shows a 20-year-old newbie how to clean the auditorium between shows. The protocol for spilled soda is revealed.
As the "action" continues in this manner, we learn more about Avery (the newbie) and Sam (the old hand) — as well as about Rose, the 24-year-old, green-haired projectionist — than would seem possible in a play with no "here's who I am" speeches or "here is the conflict" rhubarbs. Instead, we get only the real things these characters might be doing, as if this were a National Geographic documentary about endangered wildlife in its native habitat. The focus, naturally, is on the work at hand: the repeated drudgery of manual labor, sometimes literally ad nauseam. This is accompanied not so much by dialog as chatter — about favorites films, the evils of digital projection, and the splitting of the "dinner money" stolen from receipts. There's a recurring game of Six Degrees of Film Celebrity: Can you find a route from Michael J. Fox to Britney Spears through a chain of no more than a half-dozen titles? Avery can. And everything you need to know about the way he uses movies as his means of connection to the world, and the way Sam doesn't, is expressed in the process.
On the other hand, when the characters try to use dialogue in the classical manner, to explain themselves or get something they want, the attempt usually circles like a shot bird and nosedives:
ROSE: Do you think I'm a stereotype?
AVERY: Of like —
ROSE: Of like — whatever. Of like what I am.
AVERY: … Yeah.
ROSE: You do?!
AVERY: Yeah.
ROSE: I guess you're right.
ROSE: Uch.
ROSE: Wait. Were you being fake? Just now?
This looks unpromising on the page, but one of the things Baker is doing by radically pruning the theater's stockpile of expressive gambits is to multiply the power of those that remain. When the misbegotten love story, so helpless and bereft of pretty words, eventually emerges, it engages us, not as a movie might with noble sentiment, but rather by forcing us into unexpected empathy, as for a crying baby.
It's uncanny; rarely has so much feeling been mined from so little content. Something's lost in the process, of course: brevity. Baker's technique — developed in earlier plays, like Circle Mirror Transformation and The Aliens — requires lots of time, not much of it devoted to speech. If the script were simply spoken without its many pauses and interludes of silence, the play might be an hour shorter. (As performed, it's a full three hours.) For some people this will prove an impossible or even presumptuous burden. But for me, the silence, like a halo, makes everything it surrounds more beautiful. Nor is the banality of what survives the silence random or unconsidered. Chekhov's famous dictum (if a gun appears in Act One it had better shoot by Act Four) is reinvented figuratively: The play is littered with linguistic guns that Baker cocks early and fires late. Nothing's wasted.
The demands that this new dramaturgy makes on the production are exceptional. As good as the play is, it would be among the most excruciating theater experiences imaginable if the actors weren't skilled enough to create and suspend complete characterizations across wide expanses of emptiness. (It doesn't take six degrees to get from Baker to Beckett to Chekhov.) Under the direction of Sam Gold, at the top of his game, are Matthew Maher (Sam), Aaron Clifton Moten (Avery), and Louisa Krause (Rose). They're perfect. (Alex Hanna, also excellent in two small roles, rounds out the cast.) The painfully dead-on set and costumes (by David Zinn) work the same sad, hyper-realistic vein as the performers; in contrast, the lighting (by Jane Cox) and the sound (by Bray Poor) are almost orgasmically expressive. That makes sense, since they often represent the dream world of the movies, so much more "dramatic" and fulfilling than the real lives Baker allows onstage. Ironically, The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity, and profound uniqueness, of theater.
The Lying Lesson (at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater through March 31)
Bette Davis shows up at a dump of a house in coastal Maine during a summer storm in 1981 — is this the set-up for a joke? At any rate, it's the set-up for Craig Lucas's latest play, The Lying Lesson, in which the 73-year-old movie star returns to her youthful stamping grounds, possibly intending to rekindle an ancient affair. Encouraging her is Minnie, a thirtyish local rube who takes care of the house and who, suspiciously, claims not to have heard of the town's most famous alumna; she calls her, at first, Miss Davitz. Perhaps this is because Carol Kane's version of the famous clipped voice sounds Hungarian.
It would be hard to imagine a plot less characteristic of Lucas's work. The magic realism that runs through his plays and screenplays, in works like Blue Window and Longtime Companion and Prelude to a Kiss, is here transferred from the story itself into the character of Davis, still bigger than life in her last decade. Lucas seems to be interested not just in the way she made movies (there's plenty of fun if familiar dish about Joan Crawford and Miriam Hopkins and the like) but also in the way movies made her. The power of art to transform little people into great ones through mastery of what amounts to fabrication is what gives the play its title and best moments. Unfortunately, as Lucas confesses in an author's note about many of the imaginary plot details, it is all "a damn lie."


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What does it mean to be a Christian? What does it look like to have
the grace of God working in your soul? What should the Christian's
relationship to the Law of God be? And what constitutes
true spirituality? These are some the issues Jesus addressed in
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Basic Bioethics
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
An Interdisciplinary Reader
422 pp., 6 x 9 in, 2 charts, 1 graph, 7 tables
- Paperback
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- Published: September 20, 2013
- Publisher: The MIT Press
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- Published: September 20, 2013
- Publisher: The MIT Press
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- Published: September 27, 2013
- Publisher: The MIT Press
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.
This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient autonomy and compulsory treatment, privacy and confidentiality, and the definition of mental illness itself. Although debates over these issues are ongoing, there are few comprehensive resources for addressing such dilemmas in the practice of psychology, psychiatry, social work, and other behavioral and mental health care professions. This book meets that need, providing foundational background for undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses.
Topics include central questions such as evolving views of the morality and pathology of deviant behavior; patient competence and the decision to refuse treatment; recognizing and treating people who have suffered trauma; addiction as illness; the therapist's responsibility to report dangerousness despite patient confidentiality; and boundaries for the therapist's interaction with patients outside of therapy, whether in the form of tennis games, gift-giving, or social media contact. For the most part the selections address contemporary issues in contemporary terms, but the book also offers a few historic or classic essays, including Thomas S. Szasz's controversial 1971 article "The Ethics of Addiction."
Laura Weiss Roberts, Frederic G. Reamer, Charles P. O'Brien, and Thomas McLellan
It has always been puzzling that more attention has not been paid to the profound ethical challenges of mental health care, posing perhaps the most difficult and thorny ethical questions in all of medicine. In this superb volume, Sisti, Caplan, and Rimon-Greenspan have gathered in one place some of the most thoughtful and incisive thinkers about the difficulties of caring for people with mental illness. Most important, the ethical considerations grapple with the lived reality of the mentally ill and those who are caring for them. Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care is an important and timely contribution to this ongoing ethical conversation.
Paul Root Wolpe, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Center for Ethics, Emory University
Mental health is the area of medicine that provides the greatest and most persistent ethical challenges to practitioners. In an era that holds dear 'patient autonomy,' it routinely faces patients who suffer disorders that place the capacity for autonomy in question. In an era that holds dear individuals' rights to pursue the life paths they value, it routinely faces the challenge to distinguish what are merely unwise, or perhaps even immoral, life choices from real pathology. In this book, Sisti, Caplan, and Rimon-Greenspan offer a compendium of thoughtful, reasoned, and down-to-earth discussions of these issues and many others that face the mental health professional on a daily basis. I'm confident that mental health professionals will find themselves consulting this book regularly to help them negotiate the ethics of everyday practice. They may also want to build it into the training they give young professionals who are entering the field.
Barry Schwartz, Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College; coauthor of Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing
This is a collection of brilliant voices and perspectives that will intrigue and challenge expert and novice alike as it shines light on the complex ethical issues engendered by the messy clinical world that is mental health care.
John Maher MD, FRCPC; Senior Editor, Journal of Ethics in Mental Health


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Snapcodes are Snapchat's version of a QR code that can be scanned to add new friends, unlock lenses, and even discover exclusive content on Snapchat. Snapcodes are easily shareable across your social channels and in your print or digital marketing campaigns.
Much like a QR code, each Snapcode contains digital information with a specific trigger—so once the Snapcode has been unlocked, you'll be able to access fun, interactive lens experiences, easily add new friends, or let new friends add you!
In the past, if you wanted to add a friend on Snapchat, you would have to manually type their username into the 'Add Friends' search box and scroll through a list of similar names. Now, all you have to do is open the Snapchat app, point your Snap camera at your friend's Snapcode, and never worry about misspelling a username again!
Check out Snapchat's video that breaks down just how Snapcodes work.
It's easier than you think!
You've downloaded Snapchat, and you've mastered the basics thanks to Snapchat 101 - The Beginner's How to Guide.
Now, you want to unlock a Face or World lens using a digital or printed Snapcode. All Snapcodes have a circle and image in the middle, like our Winter Wonderland Snapcode below. ⬇
There are several different ways to unlock a Snapcode, and we'll break all of them down into super simple steps!
You see a Snapcode on a poster, computer screen, or on a friend's device.
1) Open Snapchat
2) On the home screen, tap on the smiley face button
3) Select the blank circle button 🔘
4) Point your camera at the Snapcode.
Make sure you've selected the rear-facing camera!
5) Tap and hold the Snapcode on your screen to scan it. 👆
If this doesn't work, move your device closer to the Snapcode)
6) You'll be asked if you want to unlock it or Send to Friends! Tap your selection and you're done!
If you aren't in a position where you can point your camera at a Snapcode, you CAN download the image of a Snapcode and add it to Snapchat directly through your camera roll.
1) Tap the top left button to access your Profile 👤 screen
2) Tap the top right Settings ⚙ button
3) Scroll down and tap on Snapcodes
4) Tap "Scan from Camera Roll"
5) Select the Snapcode image
6) You'll be asked if you want to unlock it or Send to Friends. Tap your selection and you're done!
If someone sends you a Snapcode in a message or an email, you can upload a screenshot to Snapchat and the app will detect the Snapcode within the image and unlock it.
1) Screenshot the Snapcode.
There's no need to edit out any surrounding text, just make sure it includes the entire Snapcode.
2) Select the Share button
3) Tap the Snapchat icon
4) Snapchat will open up the image as a Snap. Wait about three seconds, and the Snapcode will be automatically detected (you don't need to tap anything!)
5) You'll be asked if you want to unlock it, or Send to Friends. Tap your selection and you're done!
A friend sends you a Snap of them using a face lens, or you see a face lens in your friend's story. Without even having access to the Snapcode, you can still unlock a lens by following a couple easy steps.
1) Tap the Try Lens 🔘 button at the bottom of the screen
2) The lens will automatically be added to your lens carousel!
1) Tap the Unlock Lens 🔘 button at the bottom of the screen
2) The lens will automatically be added to your roster of lenses!
The easiest of all! All you have to do is Swipe up when you see one in your discovery feed!
Now you know the five ways Snapcodes can be accessed in Snapchat, and how lenses can be unlocked with the app.
To read more about Snapchat lenses and social media AR, check out our full list of resources here.