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‘Pop Art Rabbi’ to Install Sukkah Project
if he should continue to paint.

His dedication to the
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rabbinate was deepening, and
he was not sure that there was a
THERE WAS A TIME when place in his life for art making.

Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, known Discussing the matter with a
as Th e Pop Art Rabbi, wondered mentor, Moully realized that
ARTS he had it all wrong.

“What he told me really
changed my life,” Moully said,
“because what he said was,
‘You got the wrong question.

Th e question isn’t should you
paint or not. Th e question is,
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that God gave you, and use
them to impact the world in a
meaningful way?’ Th at’s been
my direction ever since.”
Th e fruits of that life-al-
tering decision will be on
display at the Old City Jewish
Art Center beginning Oct. 2.

Some of Moully’s paintings will
be on display until the end of
October, and from Oct. 2 until
the end of Sukkot, Moully’s
recurring experiential art piece
based in a sukkah, “We All
Belong,” will be open to visitors
as well, set up outside the
building. As part of the sukkah
experience, visitors will be able
to write their own messages on
a large blank canvas.

“It’s a great opportunity
that we’re thrilled to present,”
said Rabbi Zalman Wircberg,
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For months, OCJAC, a
nonprofit, has only hosted
small groups by appointment
and provided virtual tours of
its gallery space. Th at or you
could “stumble in” on a weekday,
Wircberg said. “It’s very easy
to social distance when you’re
a visitor to a gallery.” It was all
a far cry from OCJAC’s First
Friday “Shabbos Gallery” events,
which typically drew close to
1,000 visitors.

Moully’s sukkah, which
stretches over a sidewalk and
will set limits on how many
masked and distanced visitors
can dwell within it at a given
time, will allow those uncom-
fortable with crowded indoor
spaces to engage with art.

Even if the pandemic didn’t
necessitate such installations,
Wircberg said, OCJAC was
moving toward doing more in
that genre, anyway.

Murals, he said, “are a big
thing in the gallery world,
and I really want to connect
it with Judaism, to what we
do, and with holiness, and I
just thought, what better way?
[Moully] is great, he does
great murals literally all over
the country and all over the
world.” Moully has painted
murals in Los Angeles, Jersey
City and Brooklyn.

Wircberg and Moully,
who is based in Hillside, New
Jersey, had a prior relationship;
Moully had shown his work
at OCJAC before, and their
mothers were friends when
they were children.

Moully’s work has gained
widespread acclaim, with
write-ups in Th e Wall Street
Journal, Th e Forward, Tablet
Magazine and other publi-
cations. Last year, his work
was shown at the Jerusalem
Biennale, where 50,000 visitors
saw work from 243 diff erent
artists. A self-described “child of
hippies,” Moully felt a creative
spirit within from a young age,
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