Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem - in Denver on Monday night!

One of the stars of my favorite online TV show will be right here in Denver on Monday, December 15.

Tuesday Night live in Jerusalem

7:30 pm

1810 S Federal

Denver CO

Jeremy Gimpel -

the latest:

Show #41, Tribute to the Israeli Heros in Haiti

It really is the best online show - will make you proud that you donate to Israel!

If you live in Denver, join me there!

Global Vision

As an artist, I often get fogged in. I tend to go to my studio and tune out the world. It's just me sitting there happily playing and making fun little things. Hmmm...must be the right side of my brain taking over....blocking out the world outside my own little world?

Then there's the MBA in me that forces me to come up for air and look beyond my studio, my home, my city, my state, my country...into the world and remember that it is a global vision that makes us better human beings.

And as a rather privately religious person, I do like to know what is going on in Israel. So I have subscribed to a blog that I read every day, One Jerusalem.

I watch Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem Ari & Jeremy...2 young men from America who moved to Israel and who are serving in the Israeli army today. Amazing young men. There is no where they would rather be in the entire world than in Israel serving in their army. Their weekly TV show is incredible.

Quoting them here: "If Israel put down their guns for one second....there would be no more Israel." "Do you want to watch Jewish history unfold from the TV in your living room? Or do you want to take part of it from the front lines?"

And I get my daily news from Israel Today. Their headlines the other day was "Israelis on alert as Hizballah declares war". CNN didn't even bother to mention it. Not even on their world news page.

One of my favorite map websites is called "Maps Don't Lie". I think if you read just this one page, you will have a new understanding of what I talk about when I say "global vision".

If you want some different inputs on global vision, check out some of the links provided by the Cotopaxian Press I particularly enjoyed the link to "Forget oil, the new global crisis is food". When we were in Israel, we saw how they are using greenhouses to grow food in the desert. We learned that Israel currently exports 1/3 of Europes produce. Will this be how Israel one day rules the world? We will turn to them for our food?

I grew up on my Great Great Grandfather's farm of 160 acres. There were the 7 of us and Grandma living on this land. 8 people. That was 20 acres per person. If all of the living descendants of those 8 people lived on this land today, they would total 41 and each person would have 3.9 acres. If we still raised all our own meat, dairy and produce, this would give each of us very little land to do so. Where is the food going to come from? Who is thinking this through? Not anyone in the US. Thank goodness, the Israeli's are!

Does Israel have more hidden treasures than we know about? Wealth in the bottom of the Dead Sea (we saw huge mines in the middle of the sea when we were there).

I just hate preachers who yell and scream from the pulpit, threatening the end of the world (ok, in my Baptist past the world should have ended every day for the past 50 years!). I truly hate pastors who point their finger while preaching and tell the audience to give them all their money (is that why so many of us grew up horribly poor?). I do not believe there is a church building on the face of this earth worth giving a dime to (another blog, another day). But I will send every spare penny to Israel to help them stay a nation.

Global Vision. How far past your studio do you see on a clear day?

Art from my heart

I wanted to share a new English TV show from Jerusalem that you can watch from the internet. Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem The first show was on 1/3/08 and you can see a different perspective on what's going on. Ari & Jeremy. I liked their humor...2 Jews, 3 opinions. A bit of humor, history, and current events. The video may seem a little long, but truly insightful. Give it a few minutes to load when you click on the link. I can't wait for Tuesdays now, just to see where they go with this.

I am not Jewish. But I truly believe that the Jews are the chosen people, that the Bible was written by Jews, about Jews, for Jews, that 100% of the Bible's authors were Jews. The Old Testamen was written in Hebrew and I do not for one second believe that any of us can fully understand what the writers were saying unless we understand that language, know history, and study endlessly. The same applies to Greek. What we read are over 52 different translations that are interspersed with the English writer's interpretation of that language. For instance, King James would behead his scribes if he didn't like what they wrote. How long do you think it took the remaining scribes to learn how to write what the King wanted, rather than what the scriptures said? LOL!

Ever since I visited Israel a little over 2 years ago, I have longed to move there. I do know that one of my ancestral lines has been traced back to Judah who descends from Isaac, Jacob and Abraham. And the land of Israel was promised to Abraham's descendants. I have to wonder if that is where this intense longing comes from? When I walked along the Sea of Galilee, my heart leapt as I recalled the words from a childhood song, "I walked Today Where Jesus Walked, and felt His presence..." My experiences in Israel were life altering and most of the things I have designed since then include a Star of David, often hidden, somewhere in the design.

My art comes from my heart. And my heart belongs to Hashem. I don't expect many of you to share my beliefs or even want to try to understand them. But to know my art is to know me.

My prayer is that Ari & Jeremy will set Israel on fire for Hashem. My religious beliefs are a huge part of my ability to design art. So from time to time, I feel a very strong need to write about that as well.

Where does your art come from? What sets your spirit on fire? How passionate are you about what you believe?



The shofar blows 100 notes
to make us think today
about the things of our past year
and send our sins away.

The shofar blows a note of hope
our year will start anew
An apple dipped in honey means
a sweet New Year for you.

The shofar blows 100 notes
his eyes are closed to pray
That life will be a sweet, sweet song
Each and every day.

The shofar blows this Holy Day
bringing Shava Tova once more
Remembering these traditions
as others did before.

My mom painted the picture, I wrote the poem. Papers are by Shalom Scrapper.



Know my art....know my heart.