Article by Jasmine Su The Newark Museum on Wednesday opens "Women's Tales: Four Leading Israeli Jewelers," a traveling show dedicated to the work of four women, ranging from their mid-50s to early 70s, who have helped to put the contemporary jewelry of their small country on a par with the New Jewelry movement in Europe and the United States. The show celebrates the 60th anniversary of Israel's statehood, and Israeli history and Jewish culture provide the themes of many of these sleekly Modernist designs. Three of the four artists -- Vered Kaminski, Esther Knobel and Deganit Stern Schocken -- studied at the New Bezalel Academy, an art school descended from pre-statehood days, which promoted Jewish handicrafts in biblical subjects done in a hybrid Oriental/Western tradition (the "Bezalel style"). Bezalel metalwork was marked by arabesques of inlaid silver in copper or brass ("Damascene," an antique Middle Eastern ...