It’s been a busy month, both with a variety of freelance projects and with getting ready for the Art Fair at the 2025 Greater Chicago Jewish Festival, where I’ll be vending one week from today. With luck, I’ll be displaying another new product, so watch for pics of that next week.

I don’t get to see much of the rest of the festival, as a rule, but I’m still really excited about it. So much great music! Where else can you get Israeli pop/rock legend David Broza headlining for only $5? (Fun fact: I went to see David Broza play at the City Winery in Chicago at the end of January 2020 – shortly before Covid.)

Anyway, you can click the flyer below for festival-day info, or view the official 2025 GCJF program (PDF).

Tonight also begins the holiday of Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, which is both an agricultural pilgrimage festival specified in the Torah and, somewhat confusingly, the anniversary of the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people at Mt. Sinai. There is a traditional Jewish practice of staying up all night (or, at least, late, which for me will mean being out til 9pm) to study Torah on Shavuot, as well as of enjoying dairy products. So get out there and enjoy some cheesecake with your Torah study!