L IFESTYLES /C ULTURE
‘Pop Art Rabbi’ to Install Sukkah Project
if he should continue to paint.

His dedication to the
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
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,
LEGAL DIRECTORY
LOUIS B. HIMMELSTEIN
& ASSOCIATES, P.C.

ATTORNEYS AT LAW
PERSONAL INJURY ONLY
Free initial consultation.

Free home & hospital visits.

Slip and Fall cases
Nursing Home abuse
No fee till recovery
215-790-9996 1420 Walnut Street, Ste 1000
Philadelphia, PA 19102
ELDER LAW
AND ESTATE PLANNING
Wills Trusts
Powers of Attorney
Living Wills
Probate Estates
Protect assets from
nursing home
LARRY SCOTT AUERBACH, ESQ.

CERTIFIED ELDER LAW ATTORNEY
CPA-PFS, J.D., LL.M.,MBA
1000 Easton Road
Abington, PA 19001
For consultation call
215-517-5566 or
1-877-987-8788 Toll Free
Website: www.Lsauerbach.com
HEALTHCARE DIRECTORY
ROBERT A. ROVNER, Esq.

(former State Senator and Asst. Dist. Attorney)
ROVNER, ALLEN, ROVNER,
ZIMMERMAN, SIGMAN &
SCHMIDT TOLL FREE (888) D-I-A-L L-A-W
FREE CONSULTATION Personal
Injury, Disability, Divorces,
Criminal Defense, Workers
Compensation OFFICES: PENNSYLVANIA
and NEW JERSEY
www.dial-law.com SENIORS TO SENIORS
Over 2 Decades of Quality Service
To advertise
in our
Directories Call
215-832-0749 18
OCTOBER 1, 2020
WHICH TYPE OF
COMMUNITY IS RIGHT FOR ME?
Continuing Care Retirement
Community? (CCRC)
Rent or purchase?
We’re There When You Need Us!
For more information please call 610.284.4244 or visit grannyshelpinghands.com
bonded and insured
Overwhelmed with the
thought of moving to
Independent Senior Living?
55+ Active Adult?
Granny’s Helping Hands, PA Inc.

Trusted, Quality, Aff ordable, Dependable,
Non-medical Home Care • Equal Opportunity Employer
how can you take the gift s
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,
Can I afford it?
SENIORS TO SENIORS
BOX REPLIES
will be forwarded once a week on Friday.

To answer a Senior to Senior ad,
address your reply to:
JE Box ( )
Classifi ed Dept.

2100 Arch Street 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
What care do I need?
How will I sell my house?
How do I downsize my stuff?
Can I bring my dog?
DEADLINE -
We Educate, Guide and Advocate
for Families as they move to
Independent Living
Call 215-832-0749
Helping Seniors
for more than 25 years.

TO PLACE YOUR SENIOR TO SENIOR AD
Friday by 10 am for the following Thursday’s issue
Good looking woman, 65 years old. Intelli-
gent and educated. Open her heart for reli-
able intelligent man 60-75 for partnership
and friendship. Widower or divorced man.

610-642-1524 JEWISH EXPONENT
Call David L. Reibstein
215-870-7362 Stay tuned for an updated website:
www.S3Living.com director of the OCJAC.

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,
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM



L IFESTYLES /C ULTURE
Rabbi Yitzchok Moully at work
which he carried with him
from his native Australia to
Toronto, Belgium, Brooklyn,
Venice and Basking Ridge,
New Jersey. As Judaism grew
into more of a priority for him,
the places of spiritual elevation
Photo by Boruch Shalom Moully
that he sought in his practice of
art and religion began to seem
awfully similar.

Outside of his painting,
Moully is interested in photog-
raphy and silk screen printing.

Combine those two, along
A new painting from Yitzchok Moully wil be displayed at his show at the
OCJAC. Courtesy of Yitzchok Moully
with his penchant for bright,
saturated colors, and you begin
to see how “Th e Pop Art Rabbi”
caught on.

In 2017, his painting
“Orange Socks,” depicting
silhouettes of 12 Chassidim,
Judaism, that we can’t be a
carbon copy of each other,”
he said. “We all have to fi nd
our uniqueness. And it doesn’t
have to be counterculture. Th e
guy wearing orange socks isn’t
walking in a diff erent direction;
he’s part of the community, but
he’s personalized it.”
And even though Moully
fi nds meaning in fi lling up a
canvas, he’s looking forward to
seeing what comes of the blank
canvas to be fi lled by visitors to
Old City Jewish Art Center.

“I say that I create elabo-
rate blank canvases for other
people to come and to share,”
he said. “So it’ll be exciting
to see where it starts and, of
course, where it ends.” ●
one wearing orange socks,
was granted an entire gallery
wall at the 2017 edition of the
Biennale. Moully likes to joke
that it’s a self-portrait.

“Th e message behind it, for jbernstein@jewishexponent.com;
me, is to fi nd yourself in your 215-832-0740
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
BOOKEEPING SERVICES
Quickbooks Experience
610-715-3637 JEFFREY HORROW
Personalized Tax Preparation
and Accounting For Individuals
and Businesses.

610-828-7060 SJHorrow.com
SJHorrow@gmail.com To advertise in our
Business Directories
Call 215-832-0749
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM DONʼT SELL
UNTIL YOU
CONTACT US!
CHOICE SUBURBAN
RETAIL LOCATIONS ROBERT GELSHER, CFP®, AWMA®, CRPC®
Established 1926
▲▲▲▲▲ Silver • Coins • Gold
Sterling Flatware &
Pieces Costume &
Estate Jewelry
Glassware • Trains • Dolls
Vintage Clothing/
Handbag Entire cleanout &
removal service
provided. 30 years experience.

▲▲▲▲▲ CALL KEVIN “D”
267-934-3002 First Vice President/Wealth Managment
IS YOUR BANK NOT
Financial Advisor
YENTIS REALTORS
ENTIRE ESTATES
PURCHASED ROBERT
GELSHER, CFP®,
CFP®, AWMA®,
AWMA®, CRPC®
CRPC® ROBERT GELSHER,
First First
Vice Vice
President/Wealth Managment
President/Wealth Financial Advisor
215-878-7300 215.572.4131
www.RobertGelsher.com 5HYHUVH0RUWJDJH
5HYHUVH3XUFKDVH www.RobertGelsher.com
Call today
for a complimentary
www.RobertGelsher.com Call Call today
financial refresh.

today for for a a complimentary
complimentary Ask for Dan
Managment Financial Advisor
215.572.4131 215.572.4131
financial financial refresh.

refresh. 6HUYLQJ3$ )/
$6DIHW\1HW)RU 6HQLRUV2OGHU$GXOWV
 
LQIR#UHYHUVLQJPWJFRP ZZZUHYHUVLQJPWJFRP
Power Washing
Window Washing
Chandelier Cleaning
Hardwood Wax
Gutter Cleaning
BRUCKER’S CALL SEGAL FINANCIAL
FOR IMMEDIATE
ASSISTANCE. • COMMERCIAL LOANS
• CONSTRUCTION LOANS
• LLC LOANS
• BRIDGE
LOANS evan@segalfinancial.com
www.segalfinancial.com See CALL/TEXT
recent success EVAN
stories on AT our
Facebook page
0LFKDHO)ULHGPDQ nmls 
$)LQDQFLDO3ODQQLQJ7RRO HELPING?
Janney Scott LLC LLC
Janney Montgomery
Montgomery Scott
8101 Washington
Lane, Janney
Montgomery Scott
LLC 8101 Washington
Lane, Wyncote,
PA 19095
Wyncote, PA 19095
rgelsher@janney.com 8101 Washington
Lane, Wyncote,
PA 19095
rgelsher@janney.com rgelsher@janney.com
© JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC
© JANNEY
MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC
MEMBER: NYSE, FINRA, SIPC
MEMBER: NYSE, FINRA, SIPC
215-704-2080 SEGAL FINANCIAL, LLC
WALTON POINT EXECUTIVE CENTER
BLUE BELL, PA 19422
www.segalfi nancial.com
© JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC
MEMBER: NYSE, FINRA, SIPC
Paper Hanging
Painting Deck Sealing
Estate Clean Outs
Carpet Cleaning
Home Maintenance
215-576-7708 Insured
“We fix what your husband repaired”
PA054592 JEWISH EXPONENT
OCTOBER 1, 2020
19