Virginia museum unveils memorial honoring child victims of the Holocaust
The Virginia Holocaust Museum has opened a permanent Children’s Memorial dedicated to young victims of the Holocaust, the first of its kind in the United States, reported the local NBC 12.
The memorial, which took more...
The traveling Holocaust exhibit that’s revolutionizing Holocaust education
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...
New Jerusalem exhibit demonstrates how plastic is ‘suffocating Earth’
“Warning: Plastic packets may be dangerous. Full stop.”
This is the typical warning label on those small plastic packets of silica gel that are tossed into food packaging, shoe boxes, electronics wrapping and more. Not...
New virtual-reality Holocaust experience keeps survivors ‘alive,’ builds empathy
Jordan Gelfeld has connections. As a docent at the Illinois Holocaust, his grandfather, Mark Gelfeld, was able to get this grandson in for a sneak peek at the museum’s new virtual-reality exhibit. And the...
Magdala Stone and other rare artifacts on view in Galilee
An oil lamp bearing the symbol of the seven-branched menorah; a stone from the Second Temple; inscriptions that incorporate the words “Shalom,” “Shabbat” and the names of the sages Shimon, Jacob and Hoshaya. These...
Outdoor exhibit about history of Polish Jews travels to Eastern European cities
A new traveling outdoor exhibition about the history of Polish Jews is making its way through five cities in Poland following a successful showing in Croatia and Norway.
Titled “They Fill No Space: Reviving the...
Israel opens dazzling new Nanoscience and Art Museum
How do 150,000 stretchy rubber bands depict the healing process of damaged neurons? How do 16 electric violin players pinpoint the moment that synchrony transitions to chaos?
These and other works at Israel’s newest museum...
‘Restoring My Lost Childhood’: Exhibit spotlights how children’s homes revived the youngest Holocaust survivors
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...
Art as Liberation: The Mexican Muralists at the Whitney Museum
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...
New exhibit showcases Jewish migration to Manhattan, evolution of community
A new exhibition in the Chelsea area of New York City details the history of German-Jewish migration to Washington Heights and how Jewish immigrants created a community for themselves in the Manhattan neighborhood, amNY reported.
“Refuge in...