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Relations between India and Israel have flourished for 30 years. Credit: Israeli Embassy in India.

Israel Museum inaugurates exhibit to mark India’s 75th birthday

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The Israel Museum on Thursday inaugurated an exhibit titled “Body of Faith: Sculpture from the National Museum of India,” to mark the 75th anniversary of India’s independence. Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Indian Ambassador to...

The traveling Holocaust exhibit that’s revolutionizing Holocaust education

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The sight of a Holocaust-era replica cattle car parked on a typically nondescript main city street would cause even the most absent-minded drivers and pedestrians to do a double take. If the structure’s image...
“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...

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...
Lena Küchler (center), director of the children's home in Zakopane, Poland, with the children and staff in 1945. Credit: Yad Vashem.

‘Restoring My Lost Childhood’: Exhibit spotlights how children’s homes revived the youngest Holocaust survivors

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It’s been 75 years, but Yaakov Guterman can still recall nearly everything about the nine months he lived in Zakopane, Poland. He remembers that all of a sudden in this group home for children who’d...
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...
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,...
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....
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,...
Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Art as Liberation: The Mexican Muralists at the Whitney Museum

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Vida Americana is an exhilarating, expansive and immensely satisfying exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum. Like a great and varied feast, this is a show that one must take one’s time to fully appreciate...