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Shining a Light on Soviet Jewish Life

by Matt Stromberg February 6, 2022June 24, 2022

Works by Bill Aron and Yevgeniy Fiks chronicle the experience of Soviet Jews who tried to leave their homeland.

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Mauricio Lasansky’s “Nazi Drawings” Confront the Unthinkable Evil

by Lauren Moya Ford January 31, 2022February 8, 2022

Lasansky’s series drew massive crowds when it toured major museums between 1967 and 1970.

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After a Decade of Uncertainty, the Jewish American History Museum Emerges With a Bright Future

by Jasmine Liu January 12, 2022January 12, 2022

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

by Matt Stromberg November 28, 2021December 30, 2021

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

by Ela Bittencourt November 21, 2021December 30, 2021

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

by Carey Dunne July 6, 2016July 7, 2016

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

by Hrag Vartanian April 14, 2014

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

by Jillian Steinhauer May 24, 2012May 29, 2012

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.

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