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JUNE 2014

"Jews of Color: a Renaissance" is the latest project by Scattered Among the Nations to educate about Jewish diversity, profiling some of the world’s most isolated and dynamic communities. Combining the photography of Jews of Color: in Color! and new paintings by Sam Renaissance based on the photos from that project, the exhibit aims to create a new paradigm in art and in people’s thinking about religion and race. Find out more.

MEDIA COVERAGE

"Gallery at the J presents “Jews of Color: In Color!” (TheJewishOutlook.com, 9/11)

“Scattered Among the Nations at Temple Sinai” (Lehrhaus Judaica, 07/11)

“Profile on Jews of Color Exhibit”  (Fox TV Memphis, Good Morning Memphis, 01/18/11) 

“Jews of Color Explored in Photography Exhibition” (GoMemphis, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 01/12/11)

“Many nations, one tribe: Oakland photojournalist on a quest to document Jewish diversity"  (Jweekly.com, 05/07/09)

"Exhibit tells story of Jews worldwide" (CentreDaily.com, Penn State News, 04/10/09)

Interview with SAN President Bryan Schwartz on New York’s WNYC (NPR affiliate) (The Leonard Lopate Show, January 12, 2006) (download mp3)

"Far-reaching Lens" (a profile of the 2005-2006 Scattered Among the Nations photo exhibit at the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica at Congregation Emanu-El in New York City), (Jewish Forward, 11/14/05)

"Chronicling Jewish communities -- Local man's 'Jews of Color: In Color!' at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue"  (Washington Jewish Week, 9/21/05)

"Photo Exhibit Records Isolated Jewish Communities" (a profile of the author and 2003 Center for Jewish History NYC exhibition), (Houston Jewish Herald-Voice, Anniversary Edition, 4/17/03)

"Babel Judaica" (a profile on the Scattered Among the Nations organization and Center for Jewish History NYC exhibition), (Revista 18, Sao Paolo, Brazil, Summer 2003)

"Israeli rabbis convert dozens of 'Inca Jews'"
 (profiling Scattered Among the Nations’ effort to assist indigenous Peruvian Jews to gain formal Jewish community recognition), (Jerusalem Report, 12/9/01)