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Work in progress

Two works now on display at Rakia Gallery, Shlomtzion St. Jerusalem.

Study Of A Head.

Commission: Portrait of Max and Julie Gilbert, for their mother's 50th. Now hanging on a wall somewhere in Philadelphia. Oil on canvas, 2013.

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Charles Griffin in his studio, 2009, oil on canvas. Charles Griffin is an editorial cartoonist. Having worked for almost every London newspaper, he has documented British politics with his drawings for over four decades. He continues to work and his cartoons are published weekly in the Daily Mirror.

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Madge, 2009, oil on canvas.

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2009, oil on canvas. Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky zt”l, otherwise known as The Steipler Gaon. Once, during his stint in the Red Army, the Rabbi was court-martialled for “failing to do his duty” when there was a possibility of breaking the Sabbath. He was forced to walk between two rows of soldiers who were ordered to beat him as he passed. In later years the Rabbi remarked that the satisfaction he had enjoyed for making a stand for his religious convictions was an achievement never again equaled for the rest of his life.

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