"Footage circulating today shows a #sofer carefully penning (and in another clip, completing) a #Torah scroll in #Riyadh, #SaudiArabia , the kind of moment that would have been unthinkable not long ago.

It’s a vivid snapshot of how openly #Jewish #religious life is beginning to surface in places where it was once strictly hidden, even if the community remains small and largely quiet."

https://jewishbreakingnews.com/torah-scroll-writing-ceremony-held-in-riyadh-offering-rare-glimpse-of-open-jewish-religious-life-in-saudi-arabia/

“I have to tell you,” #BillAron told me as he walked around The World In Front of Me, a retrospective of his #photography at the #American #Jewish Historical Society, “my photography allowed me to walk into rooms I might never have otherwise walked into.”

We had just looked at some of his work documenting #Jews on the #LowerEastSide of #Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s: a #sofer bent over a #Torah scroll, a glowering #rabbi with imposing eyebrows, a #Hasidic wedding in the #Bobover movement. Each #photo begat the next; when he showed a reticent subject the results of his #film, they would invite him back to take more.

Aron has become known for his work documenting Jewish communities around the world — his first book, From the Corners of the Earth, shows Jewish life in #NewYork, #LosAngeles, #Cuba and the then-#Soviet Union. His next, Shalom Y’all, was the result of a decade spent in the lesser-known Jewish communities of the American #South.

His images are joyous..."

https://forward.com/culture/803284/bill-aron-american-jewish-historical-society/

Voi ce ființe comerciale sunteți? #fiintacomerciala #sofer #politie #contract #stareanatiei #shorts.

🔗 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=EBbfAz70TeU

#România #StareaNației

Goodbye #Sofer 🍄

#pozzuoli