Check it out, a big exhibit about the history of Jews and Cannabis from ancient use to modern scientific discoveries about everyone’s favorite weed. OK, almost everyone! It opens tomorrow, in New York at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. This is their first public exhibit since the pandemic, and it will be there through December.
Opening May 5, 2022
On view May – December 2022
https://yivo.org/Cannabis
Join the exhibit opening
on May 5, 2022, 7:00pm ET,
in person and livestreamed on Zoom.
here is a rich history and long relationship between Jews and cannabis. References to this plant appear in the Bible, the Talmud, and numerous other Jewish texts. Numerous rabbis have considered it in their writings. Cannabis has been used by Jews in religious ritual and for medicinal purposes from ancient times until today. More recently, Jews have been at the forefront of scientific research and medical applications of cannabis.
https://yivo.org/Cannabis
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Also a very interesting article about the exhibit in The Gothamist:
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/menorah-bongs-talmudic-toking-secret-history-judaism-cannabis
