'Rabbi Jesus' paintings rile hospital

A La Crosse, Wis.,, artist is questioning why a hospital described her exhibit of paintings of Jesus as a rabbi as inappropriate and asked for their removal.

Clara Maria Goldstein hung 10 of her works in the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center lobby Friday night, featuring such topics as Jesus celebrating Hanukkah and his bar mitzvah, Mary preparing Jesus for circumcision, and Rabbi Jesus saying to love one another.

But on Sunday, Kendra Riek, manager of hospital Gift Shop, asked Goldstein to take down the paintings because they were inappropriate for the hospital "and could be controversial," the La Crosse Tribune reported.

Goldstein did remove them Sunday night but questioned the request.

"I don't know why my paintings are not appropriate," she told the newspaper."Why are paintings of Jesus as a Jew not appropriate when paintings of a non-Jewish Jesus is acceptable?" Regardless, she said she doesn't regard the request as anti-Semitic, and said Gunderson is "a great hospital," the report said.

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