Step behind the scenes of Brooklyn-based artist Talia Levitt's new site-specific mural, debuting this month on the Jewish Museum’s new fourth floor. Levitt’s layered, hand-embellished commission draws from multiple sources of historical inspiration, depicting a tiered shelf filled with objects inspired by the Jewish Museum collection—from a nineteenth-century Persian wedding dress to a colonial American coffeepot—set against a floral backdrop borrowed from a seventeenth-century Italian Torah bin

This evening in synagogues across the world Jewish congregations gather to “dance for the Torah," ”dancing for the Jewish people who have the opportunity to read the Torah!” Simchat Torah, meaning “rejoicing in the Torah,” is a joyous celebration of the completion of the annual reading of weekly Torah passages starting with Genesis 1 and going through Deuteronomy 34. Simchat marks an end and a beginning, a reminder that Torah is a circle that never ends! No work is permitted as everyone gathers