Waltuch Gallery
The Waltuch Art Gallery infuses Jewish art and/or works by Jewish artists into our shared cultural experiences. The exhibits are designed to ignite imagination and encourage people to connect the visual arts with philosophical and spiritual concepts through a creative Jewish lens.
The Waltuch Gallery exhibits rotate monthly, and feature the work of painters, photographers, digital artists and other creative designers.
Exhibits are free and open to the community, and most work is typically for sale. A portion of the proceeds support programming efforts at the JCC. The JCC also hosts an artist talkback dessert reception for each show.
Outdoor gallery exhibits are displayed throughout the Kaplen JCC Campus and indoor gallery exhibits are on the second floor of the main JCC building.
Exhibit #1
A Unique Exhibit to Start 2025
Artwork by Rina Shalhov
Rina Shalhov’s Within your Gates, Jerusalem is a meaningful and striking work of art offered as a first edition of signed and numbered prints. The piece is accompanied by a complete description framed alongside the exhibit, adding power to its presentation. Rina is generously donating 100% of the sales from the prints to support post October 7 relief efforts. Eighty percent of the proceeds will benefit Israeli organizations and twenty percent will be allocated to programs at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades.
This initiative highlights the power of art can make an impact on lives and communities in need.
About the artist:
Rina (Nissel) Shalhov is an American artist of Ashkenazi descent. Raised in the small town of Monsey, she relocated to New York City to follow her kaleidoscopic dreams. Her art celebrates the traditions of Torah and Jewish culture in in a joyful way, featuring bright saturated colors to create contemporary designs. Rina studied at Parsons School of Design, FIT and The Art Students League. Her diverse work includes portraits, illuminated manuscripts, and postage stamps. Rina challenges herself creatively by continuing to explore the use of different mediums and techniques. Currently, she is developing a newfound style of pop-realism using acrylics. She considers herself to be “a work in progress!”
Beyond the canvas:
Rina is a dedicated supporter of the State of Israel. Together with her Sephardic husband and two sons, she maintains a home in Herzliya and is an active member of the Jewish community.
First edition, signed and numbered prints of Rina Shalov’s Within your Gates, Jerusalem are available in 40×40 for $1,800. Please contact Fran Koszer at fkoszer@jccotp.org or 201.408.1404.
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Exhibit #2
And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World
Art by Neil Folberg
Neil Folberg was born in San Francisco in 1950 but spent most of his childhood in the Midwest. He became interested in photography around 1966 and soon after became a pupil of renowned photographer Ansel Adams at the age of seventeen. Folberg then continued his photographic education at the University of California at Berkeley and individualized study with landscape photographer William Garnett that led to a BA in Photographic Field Studies. In 1975 he married his wife and the following year they relocated to Jerusalem, where he began producing color landscapes throughout the deserts of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan resulting in his 1987 book, “In a Desert Land.”
Folberg was commissioned by Aperture to document synagogues in the Jewish Diaspora across the world leading to the book “And I Shall Dwell Among Them” which won the National Jewish Book Award for Visual Arts in 1995. The book is available for perusal in the Administrative Offices.
Galleries worldwide have exhibited Folberg’s work and his photographs are in collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University Art Museum, Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris, and the Israel Museum, among others. Folberg lives in Jerusalem where he continues to produce work.
Not available for purchase.
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