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Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.
From the opening of As It Is Written: Project 304,805, on view Oct 8, 2009–Mar 29, 2011 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
For one year, Torah scribe Julie Seltzer performed the deeply spiritual act of writing a Torah, occasionally inside a gallery at The CJM. This religious and calligraphic act—in public, within a museum, by a woman, underscores the extraordinary artistic and ritual innovation occurring within the Jewish community at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
On the opening night of As It Is Written: Project 304,805, Torah scribe Julie Seltzer, G-dcast.com founder Sarah Lefton, UC Berkeley history professor David Henkin, and musician Elana Jagoda explored the goals of the this year-long exhibition, as well as new ways of considering how the Torah is read, interpreted and performed.
Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.
As It Is Written: Project 304,805 is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum. This exhibition has been made possible by the generous lead support of the Jim Joseph Foundation. Major support has been provided by the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and through the Max Leavitt Memorial Fund. Additional individual support has been provided by Arlene and Keith Bronstein and Mort and Amy Friedkin. In-kind support has been provided by Pam Rorke Levy.
The Museum gratefully acknowledges The Jewish Theological Seminary for their invaluable participation.
People's Torah is an interactive installation and net art project by New York-based interactive studios Cabengo LLC and Studio Mobile. It was created by Hillary Leone, Mirek Nisenbaum, Fred Fauquette, and Juan Sarria. People’s Torah was commissioned by The Contemporary Jewish Museum as part of As it is Written: Project 304, 805, an exhibition that explores the Torah as a historical artifact, ritual object, scribal tradition, and contemporary muse.
The Koret and Taube Foundations are the lead supporters of the 2009–2010 exhibition season.
Header image: Installation view of As it is Written: Project 304, 805. On view October 8, 2009–March 29, 2011 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Photo credit: Ben Blackwell.