JDMM: New Videos, Blog Post + addition to Art Gallery

ParshasEmor     > “Parshas Emor”

Do you think you deserve to be treated specially? Do you think the laws don’t apply to you?

      Play video – jewishdeafmm.org/the-living-parsha/13779945/emor

 

JDMM Blog Post: “An Adventure Among (Head)Stones”

AdventureHeadStones

 

 

Tale of a visit to a Parisian cemetery, and the lessons we can take from it.

     View Blog – jewishdeafmm.org/blog/13778630

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parshiyos_Acharei-Kedoshim

 

    > “Parshiyos Acharei-Kedoshim”

A theme in this parsha is influence. How much influence do others have on us? Should we resist? What is expected of us in order to resist?

 

      Play video – jewishdeafmm.org/the-living-parsha/13777081/acharei-kedoshim

      > “Parshiyos Tazria-Metzora”
Parshiyos-Tazria-Metzora

 

The mysterious disease of tzara’as affected a person’s life.

     Play video – jewishdeafmm.org/the-living-parsha/13774202/tazira-metzora

 

Making Every Day Count
MakingEveryDayCount

In ASL, LSF, humor, and a moral message about “sefira count”, between Passover and Shavuot when we count each day of the 49 days between the two holidays.

     Play video – jewishdeafmm.org/every-day-counts

 

JDMM Blog Post: “The Deed is the Main Thing”
DeedMainThing

Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff, the director of Jewish Deaf Multimedia, recently visited a Holocaust survivor to film a new video for the website. After the visit, he decided to write up an article about his experience, and what he learned from the interview.

     Read Blog post – jewishdeafmm.org/blog/13777087/

 

      > “Parshas Shemini”
ParshasShemini

This parsha is a sad story about the deaths of two very special individuals, two of Aaron the High Priest’s sons. Aaron (Moses’ brother).

     Play video – jewishdeafmm.org/the-living-parsha/13769925/shemini

New addition to JDMM Art Gallery
EllenMansfield
 

 

 

Ellen Mansfield,
Menorah and Dreidels,
December 2012.
Glazed ceramics.
Menorah: 1in X 9in X 8.5in
and dreidels: 3in X 3in X 3in.

 

Latest addition to 12 Jewish Deaf Artists featured in the Gallery is Ellen Mansfield who is known for incorporating Deaf-themed motifs in her artwork. In this particular artwork (a menorah and dreidels), we explore the meaning of being Jewish and Deaf. Is it a contradiction, or a harmonious existence of both?

Source: Jewish Deaf Multimedia

Published On: 15 Iyyar 5773 (15 Iyyar 5773 (April 25, 2013))