Annette Back Fine Art

Annette Back creates powerful, conceptual, emotional art that inspires, is museum worthy & collectable. She ❤️to work w. people, interior designers & galleries.

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“If Israel falls, then Athens, Paris, and Amsterdam will fall next. Our mothers in the West can sleep peacefully at night, because the mothers of Israeli soldiers lie awake wondering if their child will come back alive from battle.”

- Geert Wilders

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

A secular Jew asked me why I was converting to Judaism.

Why would a rational, educated woman choose to join an ancient people and embrace traditions that seem to belong to another age? Did I truly believe those traditions were still relevant?

My answer is simple: Judaism survived because of its traditions, not despite them.

What modernity often dismisses as outdated ritual is precisely what preserved Judaism when empires collapsed, borders shifted, and entire civilizations vanished. Judaism did not endure by accident. It endured because it anchored human life to meaning, discipline, and moral responsibility. Where others dissolved into myth or memory, Judaism remained a living system.

Long before these ideas became fashionable, Judaism introduced principles we now take for granted. It insisted that no human being stands above moral accountability. That power does not grant impunity. That compassion must extend beyond convenience, to the vulnerable, the weak, even to animals. That rest is not a luxury reserved for the privileged but a commandment binding all. And that time itself must be structured, sanctified, and directed.

Judaism brought order into human existence. It introduced a calendar, a rhythm, a weekly reset, a moral framework, and a sense of mission. It taught that freedom without discipline becomes chaos, and that meaning does not emerge spontaneously. Meaning must be cultivated, practiced, and renewed.

Is this irrelevant in the 21st century?

People still lie to escape responsibility. They still seek shortcuts in moments of pressure. They are still cruel to others and to themselves. And they still need to be reminded that life is not arbitrary, that human beings are accountable to something higher than appetite, ego, or ideology.

Judaism insists that above us is a source, a Creator, from which both our unity and our diversity emerge. Humanity may number billions today, but the Torah begins with one. With origins. With Bereshit. Because to understand where we are going, we must understand where we come from.

The Torah does not offer abstract philosophy detached from lived reality. It tells stories, human, flawed, and timeless stories, that illuminate the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. It speaks of jealousy, power, failure, responsibility, repentance, and moral struggle. That is precisely why those stories endure. They are not frozen in time. They speak to every generation anew.

Judaism, then, is not a relic. It is a system of moral memory. It is a civilizational framework that trains human beings to pause, reflect, restrain themselves, and choose responsibility over impulse. In an age obsessed with speed, gratification, and self-expression, Judaism insists on restraint, reflection, and continuity.

That is why the question of relevance misses the point.

If Judaism were merely symbolic, merely cultural, merely metaphorical, it would not have survived. And if it were irrelevant, Zionism itself would be unintelligible. What is Zionism without Judaism, without the original story, the language, the laws, the calendar, and the covenant that bind a people to a specific land and history? Why should Israel exist precisely where it does if Judaism is nothing more than an abstract faith detached from place, memory, and obligation?

Strip Judaism of its traditions, and what remains is not enlightenment, but erosion. Without obligation, there is no continuity. Without practice, there is no identity. Without memory, there is no people.

For me, Judaism is not an abstraction. It is not a costume, nor nostalgia, nor a political statement. It is identity carried through time, through exile, through Babylon and beyond. It is woven into history, culture, memory, and continuity. Anyone who takes a DNA test in the Middle East understands this instinctively. The connection is not theoretical. It is embodied.

That is why tradition in Judaism is not only relevant today.

It is indispensable.
#israel #judaism #zionism

[Annette Back Fine Art @annettebackart]

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[Allister Heath @AllisterHeath]

1/2. Their silence is deafening, their hypocrisy nauseating, their callousness exposed for all to see. We have a ceasefire now in the Middle East, courtesy of Donald Trump’s superlative diplomacy, and yet many of the “ceasefire now” activists that keep marching on the streets of London appear distraught, or at least nonplussed. They are still chanting "death to the IDF", "from the river to the sea" and other foul slogans as if nothing has changed. Perhaps they just don't know what to do with their weekends, but I fear the truth may be more sinister. A common view among the more extreme protesters is that Trump's is “not a plan for an enduring peace” as it “says nothing about the root causes of violence”: for many, the fundamental, intractable issue appears to be the very existence of one small Jewish-majority state in a vast Middle East. What started off as supposedly "pro-Palestine" marches now feel increasingly explicitly like anti-Israel jamborees. Some still hide it, but many no longer do. The ceasefire has triggered an explosion of joy in Israel and Gaza, but mostly stunned silence among the British activist class. Their inability to share in these celebrations is revealing, if not surprising. They never cared about emaciated Israeli hostages and the inhumane conditions in which they were kept, but why aren’t they happy at the end of the combat operations? Why aren’t they loudly expressing their joy at the fact that the Palestinians they claim to care about are no longer dying? Wasn’t that the stated aim of their protestations?
Some activists are pretending the ceasefire hasn’t actually happened, just as they pretended that Gaza was “occupied” prior to the savage invasion of Israel launched from the strip on October 7 2023. They haven’t bothered to update their rhetoric.
Swathes of the pro-Palestinian movement in the West have gone fully post-modern, unbound by the facts, untethered from the actual reality of the region, turning their supposed cause into a mere symbol of the anti-Western omnicause. Its most extreme advocates have long spread incendiary lies about Israel; now, their truth-bending extends to protesting a war that is no longer being waged.
Some Western advocates of the “pro-Gaza” cause even wanted Hamas to refuse to take the deal, and still hope the terrorist group might wreck it come the second phase. Some don’t want it to disarm, contrary to the Trump plan, which is backed by all of the important Muslim and Arab nations as well as Israel. Many of those who screamed, over and over, in one of the vilest blood libels of recent years, that Israel was conducting a “genocide” in Gaza don’t seem to want to end it. Many of the “pro-Palestine” advocates in the West appear staggeringly unconcerned by the well-being of real Palestinians, or at least want to sacrifice more of them for an everlasting war with Israel.

[Annette Back Fine Art @annettebackart]

@RitchieTorres Thank you so much for your support and advocacy. I met you a few times in Riverdale and would love to invite you to tomorrow’s art exhibit named “77 - Time of Growth an Purpose. Here is the info:

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[Annette Back Fine Art @annettebackart]

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[Annette Back Fine Art @annettebackart]

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Next time The Washington Post wants to twist the narrative, I suggest not illustrating your article with a picture of the Druze community mourning after Hezbollah killed 12 Israeli children on a football pitch.

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[Annette Back Fine Art @annettebackart]

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[Annette Back Fine Art @annettebackart]

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