LABA Alumni Exchange Program – Closing event: ACTS OF TRANSMISSION

LABA Barcelona welcomes you to the closing event of LABA Alumni Exchange Program, concluding LABA NY alumna Danielle Alhassid’s residency in Barcelona. Join us for creative encounters and live performative process sharing- as Casa Adret comes alive, exploring how stories, gestures, and memories move across generations and space. During her residency, Alhassid has developed a research-based

LABA Barcelona Alumni Exchange Program

Artist-in-Residence 2026: Danielle Alhassid February–April 2026 As part of the LABA Europe Exchange Program, LABA Barcelona welcomes LABA NY alumna Danielle Alhassid for a three-month residency in Barcelona. The residency invites Alhassid to develop a new research-based artistic project in close collaboration with LABA Barcelona partner archives and cultural institutions, as well as with LABA

Programa de Intercambio de Alumni de LABA Barcelona

Artista en Residencia 2026: Danielle Alhassid Febrero–abril 2026 En el marco del LABA Europe Exchange Program, LABA Barcelona da la bienvenida a la alumna de LABA NY Danielle Alhassid para una residencia de tres meses en Barcelona. La residencia invita a Alhassid a desarrollar un nuevo proyecto artístico basado en investigación, en estrecha colaboración con

Programa d’Intercanvi d’Alumni de LABA Barcelona

Artista en Residència 2026: Danielle Alhassid Febrer–abril 2026 En el marc del LABA Europe Exchange Program, LABA Barcelona dona la benvinguda a l’alumna de LABA NY Danielle Alhassid per a una residència de dos mesos a Barcelona. La residència convida Alhassid a desenvolupar un nou projecte artístic basat en la recerca, en estreta col·laboració amb

LABA Night Alumni en el VIU Montjuic Barcelona 2025

Este año, LABA Barcelona participó por primera vez en el fin de semana de cultura y naturaleza Barcelona Viu Montjuïc, organizado por el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Con Recordando el Olvido, una serie de intervenciones artísticas multidisciplinares en el cementerio judío medieval de Montjuïc, a cargo de artistas de LABA BCN 2024, el proyecto buscó devolver

LABA Night Alumni at VIU Montjuic Barcelona

This year, LABA Barcelona participated for the first time in the Barcelona Viu Montjuïc culture and nature weekend, organized by the Municipality of Barcelona. With Remembering Oblivion, a series of multidisciplinary artistic interventions at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Montjuïc by LABA BCN 2024 alumni artists, the project sought to bring back into collective memory

The Jew Without Memory

by LABA Rabbinic Fellow Kendell Pinkney Several years ago, I was fortunate to travel to Stockholm with a group of young American and European Jewish lay leaders and entrepreneurs to take part in a Jewish life program. The program was described as a week-long intensive where we would discuss “big Jewish ideas,” study with renowned

State of the Jews

Former LABA Fellow Alex Weiser writes about Zionist leader Theodor Herzl’s legacy–and about using this legacy as the basis for a new opera. Early one evening last Spring, I entered a classroom on the 4th floor at the 14th Street Y to find a big table in the center filled with all sorts of my

Saving Lives with Haifa’s New Underground ER

LABA alum and journal Contributing Editor Amy Handelsman on her recent trip to Haifa’s Bnai Zion Medical Center. Tuesday, April 2, 2019, Haifa. “Only the mothers knew what to do,” said Dr. Amnon Rofe, CEO of Bnai Zion Medical Center (BZMC) in Israel’s northern city of Haifa.  “They grabbed their children and babies and ran.” We

Three Jews in a Bar Discussing Death

Yonatan Gutfeld is a current LABA fellow composing a song cycle based on the poems of Ori Bernstein. Misha Shulman is a LABA fellow, playwright and educator studying to be a rabbi. LABA Journal editor Gordon Haber met with Gutfeld and Shulman in a Brooklyn bar to discuss life, death, and vodka. (Gutfeld will perform