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Holocaust-era instruments will be on display in Chicago in effort to give music of...

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The Jewish Community Centers of Chicago are putting out a call: check your basements, attics and garages. You might find some hope there. From April through September of 2023, JCC (Jewish Community Centers) Chicago will bring a...
Israeli combat veteran and photographer Lior Nir poses with former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin as part of a pop-up exhibition showing this weekend in New York City to raise awareness of Israeli vets dealing with PTSD. Credit: Mike Wagenheim.

Famous Israelis team with wounded combat vets to bring PTSD out in the open

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Sixty of Israel’s leading politicians, entrepreneurs and social activists teamed up with injured Israeli combat veterans and for a special photographic exhibition, opening Thursday night in New York City. The project features participation from Israeli...
Anne Frank. Credit: Anne Frank House.

Anne Frank traveling exhibit on Holocaust, human rights, bigotry comes to Midwest

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“Anne Frank: A History for Today,” developed by the Anne Frank House, will be open to the public at the Putnam Museum and Science Center in Davenport, Iowa, from Sept. 2 to Oct. 30....
Sandy Scheller, curator of Project Ruth, interviews Lothian Skelton, widow of comedian Red Skelton, at the Chula Vista Public Library.

Curator Vows Holocaust Exhibit Will Find a Permanent Home

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Project RUTH – “Remember Us: The Holocaust” – which was on exhibit for two years at the Chula Vista Public Library is in the process of closing, but even though it soon will be...
Israeli director Zohar Wagner, far right, on set of “Savoy” with actors Dana Ivgy and Amir Bitton. Photo by Michael Olmert courtesy of Jerusalem Film Festival.

The Jerusalem Film Festival turns 39

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The Jerusalem Film Festival (JFF) starts on July 21 and runs until the end of the month at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and environs. The program includes full-length features, documentaries and experimental films released in the last year, short films,...
Film festival. Credit: Pixabay.

First-ever film festival in Samaria to screen two-dozen movies in four days

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The Samaria Regional Council will host its first film festival starting on July 3. More than two dozen movies will be screened over the course of four days in venues throughout the area, reported Israel...
“To Build a New Home: Celebrating the Jewish Wedding” is on display through August at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, June 2022. Credit: Ellen Dubin Photography.

Jewish Theological Seminary exhibition explores history of marriage, ‘ketubahs’

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The Jewish Theological Seminary on New York’s Upper West Side opened its first exhibition in its newly constructed library. “To Build a New Home: Celebrating the Jewish Wedding” introduces visitors to Jewish marriages from Talmudic times...
Yvel showroom. Credit: Judy Lash Balint.

Beauty meets social responsibility at Yvel Design Center

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OK, admit it: sometimes you need a break from the intensity and emotional highs of touring Israel’s religious and historic sites. A two-hour visit to the Yvel Design Center, where beauty, creativity and social responsibility...
A series of Yaacov Agam's polymorphic work. Credit: Judy Lash Balint.

Unique, colorful, kinetic: Yaacov Agam Museum in Rishon Letzion

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There’s only one museum in Israel dedicated to a sole living artist—the Yaacov Agam Museum in Rishon Letzion. Agam is so prolific and his work so striking that it’s not surprising that he merits...
Vasily Kandinsky. Study for Painting with White Form (1913) via Wikimedia Commons

The Art of Transformation: Vasily Kandinsky at the Guggenheim

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The Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was one of the early pioneers in the field of abstract painting – along with Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and Hilma af Klint, among others. Through September 5,...