Celebrate Hanukkah with this year’s newest books for the young and the young at heart. These family-friendly titles are available now in the Museum Store. Honeyky Hanukah by Woody Guthrie – A funny celebration of Hanukkah you can tap your…
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Coffee and a Cemetery Coffee Table Book with Barney Taxel
I’ve known Cleveland commercial and fine art photographer Barney Taxel for quite some time. I was working at Akron’s Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens when he was finishing up his book about the artful Seiberling estate. It was shortly after…
New Addition: Matriarch Tallit
The latest addition to Museum Store collection of handmade tallitot is the Matriarch Tallit by Yair Emanuel. The tallit bears the names of Jewish Foremothers Sarah, Rivka, Rachel and Leah embroidered one on each corner. This tallit is worn by many…
Meet Museum Store Manager Larry Solomon
Larry Solomon has been part of the local Jewish art scene since 1997 when he opened Merkaz Judaica, Cleveland’s first store devoted to progressive Jewish values and handcrafted Judaic arts. After seven years in education, Larry returns to his roots…
Shalom Y’all (Part Three)
After our sojourn in Mississippi, our Tent: the South group traveled to Memphis for the final day of our program. We spent the morning at the National Civil Rights Museum. The museum is housed in the Lorraine Motel, where Dr.…
Shalom, Y’all (Part Two)
Fifty years ago in Mississippi, civil rights activists from both the North and South came together for Freedom Summer, an effort to register and empower black voters. As our group from Tent: the South traveled from Louisiana to the heart…
Shalom, Y’all (Part One)
As part of the Maltz Museum’s ongoing efforts to tap into great potential of young professionals, I have set off on an epic adventure to immerse myself among them—19 of them to be exact, hailing from all over the country.…
Picturing a Land of Plenty
Pictured here is the title page of a Rosh Hashanah (New Year) prayer book titled Machzor Sharey Ratzon (“Gates of Grace”), published in Jerusalem in 1930. Displayed in The Temple-Tifereth Israel Gallery of the Museum, this single graphic page speaks…
It’s High Time We Prepare for the High Holidays
The Museum Store has a variety of beautiful handcrafted items to make the High Holidays extra sweet this year. We carry many glass pieces from an Israel-based design firm Lily Art that produces unique handmade items including a variety of…
Knowledge on the Rise: Putting Challah in Context
I was first introduced to challah as a little girl by my mother explaining to me that it was like Sally Lunn bread or brioche, which, I was happy to discover, it deliciously was. It wasn’t until much later that…
