Posts Tagged: Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum Exhibit Explores the History of an Author and Looted Holocaust Property
Fans of the best-selling book "The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund de Waal, have just under a month left to see the compelling and...
‘Beyond Chicken Soup’ — Looking at Jews and Medicine
JNS.org - Chicken soup is known as the “Jewish penicillin,” but there’s much more to the deep connection between the Jewish experience and healing, argues a...
Stupid Jewish Tricks
JNS.org - A recurrent feature of CBS television’s “The Late Show with David Letterman” was “stupid pet tricks.” These often spotlighted an owner more foolish than the pet. Yet...
Florida Zoning Committee Member Receives Antisemitic Mail for Supporting Synagogue, Jewish Museum Plans
A city leader in Boca Raton, Fl., received verbal abuse on social media and via email after supporting plans for a new synagogue and Jewish museum, Florida's WPTV...
Belgium Searching for Accomplice to Jewish Museum Shooter
JNS.org - Belgian authorities are searching for a possible accomplice to Mehdi Nemmouche, the French-Algerian gunman who killed four people at a Jewish museum...
Brussels Shooting Victims Leave Behind Two Teen Daughters
TEL AVIV - Miriam and Emmanuel Riva were "the cream of the crop," grieving family and friends said of the 50-year-old couple, slain in Saturday's shooting attack...
Anti-Israel Professor Judith Butler to Speak at NYC Jewish Museum
Jewish anti-Israel professor Judith Butler will be featured by New York's Jewish Museum in an event about existentialist Jewish writer Franz Kafka, and her critics on...
Jesus in Jewish Art: The Missing Pieces
Medieval and Renaissance artworks commonly Christianized Jesus, his family, and close followers while omitting their Jewish identities. This phenomenon contributed significantly to the historic rift between...
Czech Jewish Museum Will be Housed in Restored Synagogues Throughout Country
The Czech Republic will open a new Jewish museum in October 2013—but it will not be housed in a single building. Instead, the museum will consist...
Israeli Museum to Open Exhibit on Foreign Volunteers in War of Independence
Beit Hatfutsot, the "Museum of the Jewish People" in Tel Aviv, announced the opening of a new exhibition focusing on Jewish volunteers from around the...
Casual Conversations: Russian Jews in Brighton Beach
The National Museum of American Jewish History is opening a new exhibit showcasing photographs taken in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, home to...
Israel Enters Renowned Painter’s ‘World’
Spiritual concepts, emotions or experiences may spark an artist's creative imagination. Kehinde Wiley is inspired by all three. The Jewish Museum in New York City is...
An Evening in Paris – Via Persia (PHOTO)
Imagine the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, miss-en-scène "painted" in patterns of pale light and shadow. The room was alight...
Greek Rememberance Provides Grand Opportunity
In the wake of the economic drama now playing out in Greece, the annual Commemoration of the Holocaust of Greek Jewry, under the auspices...
