Black History Month: Harlem’s Ethiopian Jews
For the month of February, writer Antwaun Sargent was invited to explore works of art in the Jewish Museum collection that celebrate the intersection of black and Jewish experience. The series continues with Photo...
Gal Gadot Among Oscar Presenters
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the next group of presenters for the 90th Oscars telecast. They are Gal Gadot, Mark Hamill, Armie Hammer, Oscar Isaac, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gina Rodriguez, Eva Marie...
E.U. Parliament deems anti-Iran art ‘too controversial,’ cancels display
An exhibition of caricatures seeking to expose the Iranian government’s human-rights abuses has been rejected for display at the European Parliament on the grounds that it is “too controversial.”
The Israeli Cartoon Project, established in...
Cleveland POPS Orchestra spotlight Jewish music icons Bernstein, Robbins
The Cleveland POPS Orchestra will perform “A Broadway Celebration: Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins: A Centennial Celebration” from 8 to 11 p.m. March 2 at Severance Hall in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland.
“The...
1200 young Jews participate in 2018 Jewrovision
The Youth Centre ‘Amichai’ in Frankfurt has won this year’s Jewrovision contest, Europe’s biggest dance and singing competition for Jewish youth, which took place for the first time in the city of Dresden.
Dr. Josef...
Jewish Musician Paul Simon is Retiring
Paul Simon has announced he will be retiring from regular touring gigs. At 76-years-old, he has had a career of about 60 years. Simon, although Jewish, never highlighted his religion. His stance goes against...
The Met Can Keep a Picasso Masterpiece Sold by Jews Fleeing the Nazis, Court...
A Pablo Picasso masterpiece will stay at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art after a federal judge ruled on Wednesday against a family who claimed their ancestors were forced to sell The Actor (1904–05) in order to flee Nazi-occupied Europe.
Jewish collectors Paul and Alice...
A Jew’s Blues: Mike Bloomfield
IN THE 1960s musicians broke through the invisible barrier of the three-minute pop song. The single that did it, which rose to number 2, in fact, was Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965). Its six minutes...
2018 Winners of Jewish Fiction Award
The Association of Jewish Libraries Announces 2018 Winners of Jewish Fiction Award
Rachel Kadish is the inaugural winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) Jewish Fiction Award for her novel The Weight of Ink, published by...
German Jewish swing star, camp survivor dies at 93
German Jewish guitarist Coco Schumann, who had a more than seven-decade-long career in swing and jazz music and survived several Nazi concentration camps, has died aged 93, his music label said Monday.
“Not only his...