In a move that has elicited the ire of many, some angrily and painfully lamenting they are reminded of the days preceding Kristallnacht, Sapir College in southern Israel is hosting an exhibit that includes a minimally dressed male in female garb and using tefilin to highlight the exhibit. Critics angrily comment that even in the arts, when one tends to be more liberal, there are limits and they add they do not recall another example of an Israeli artist using tefilin in a provocative fashion as is done in this exhibit.

Artist Gil Yafman, 36, has a man dressed in minimal woman’s clothing and a tallis worn inappropriately on part of his body, tied with tefilin R”L on his chest and leg.

Many have used Facebook to send a clear message to the college to remove the objectionable exhibit and trying to enlist the public into a boycott of the university until such time it complies.

The “Boycott Sapir College” Facebook page.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)