Beth Grossman, a San Francisco artist who integrates stories and history into her work, has launched a exhibit on Mary, hardly a habitual figure in Jewish art.
She explains: "During the year 2000 I lived in Italy. I was hem ined by the images and ideals of the Virgin Mary which are woven into the fabric of Italian agriculture My initial response to the iconography of Mary was to question the ways that Western agriculture has shaped, and been
