Weeks before the pandemic necessitated its temporary closure, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History filed for bankruptcy in hopes of keeping its doors open.
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Our Wandering, Rootless Nature, Given Shape by a Jewish Tradition
The autumn holiday of Sukkot continues to offer solace and community for new generations.
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The Jewish Immigrant Modernists Who Dreamed a Better Future in Brazil
As Jewish artists fled World War II, some settled in Brazil, where their resilience and desire for renewal shaped their art that looked hopefully to the future.
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5th-Century Biblical Mosaics Found in Ancient Synagogue
Animals marching onto Noah’s Ark and the parting of the Red Sea feature in two mosaic floor panels discovered in a Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq, Israel
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Just in Time for Passover: 6 Questions for Met Museum Curators About Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
Two medieval Hebrew manuscripts have gone on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to coincide with the beginning of Passover (sundown today, Monday, April 14).
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A Jewish Art Gallery Opens in the Heart of Brooklyn’s Hassidic Community
It may not have been on everyone’s radar, but last week a new New York art gallery opened — in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. True to one of the major ethnic groups that neighborhood has long been known for, the new space is dedicated solely to Jewish, mostly Hassidic, art, which is a relatively new phenomenon.