Laura Conrad Mandel, executive director of Jewish Arts Collaborate (JArts), recalls the Jewish Artist Beit Midrash began with a conversation she had with Among the exhibits in the show is Tabb’s “Women of Valor Tzedakah Boxes.” She dedicates the boxes to two women—Ruth Messinger and Clementina Chery—who exemplify the mandate written on the tzedakah boxes to “Be the Change.” Messinger has embodied the Jewish value of tikkun olam (“repairing the world”) through her work with the American Jewish World Service. Chery founded the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in 1994 shortly after her 15-year-old son, Louis, for whom the institute is named, was murdered in Dorchester.

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