Jeremy has been drawing since he was a kid and in the last decade he has been making weekly illustrations as visual responses to the Hebrew Torah. These have been exhibited in galleries across the country and will be printed in a series of books.
A Visual Response to the Torah
Every week in synagogues around the world, a section of the Torah is read. The Torah is divided into 54 portions – called parshas. And after each parsha, a selection from the prophets is also read, and these are called the Haftorahs.
These paintings and drawings are responses not only to the text of the Torah and Haftorah, but also to the rabbinic commentary in Talmud and Mishna and to apocrypha and the mystical Zohar that have emerged over the centuries.
He created the first set of paintings and pencil caricatures from the Haftorah over a six year period as he was actively working as a filmmaker.
Over the last few years using the iPad, he have done seven sets of these visual responses.
Interviews
Exhibitions
