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The interior of a Holocaust train boxcar used by Nazi Germany to transport Jews and other victims during World War II. Credit: Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Holocaust train car arrives in New York for Auschwitz exhibit in New York

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A crane lowered a train car onto tracks on Sunday outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York—a boxcar that carried Jews and others to their deaths at Auschwitz and other Nazi death...
An exhibit featuring Jewish jewelry from the Islamic world. Credit: Museum for Islamic Art.

Exhibit at Museum for Islamic Art features Jewish jewelers from the Arab world

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The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem, with a mission of promoting interfaith dialogue, has opened a “past and present” jewelry exhibit featuring a section that highlights the Jewish amuletic jewelry in the communities of the Islamic world. According to its...
Opening night of a first-ever exhibit on medicine, designers and cultural implications, sponsored by Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, on March 13, 2019. The exhibit runs until June 13, 2019. Credit: Hadassah Academic College.

Medicine and design exhibit opens at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem

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An inaugural exhibition at the Azrieli Gallery on Hanevi’im Street in Jerusalem (also known as “Hospitals Street”) at Hadassah Academic College’s new Helmsley Building opened its first-ever exhibit on medicine, designers and cultural implications,...
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...
A photograph of Anna Ventura with her four children that she sent to her husband, Luigi, when he was in Paris in 1940. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Love letters of the Shoah: Messages thrown from cattle cars convey final wishes, prayers,...

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Jews have long been known as the people of the book, but fresh evidence has emerged that they’re also the people of the letter. Of the millions of Jews who were taken to their deaths...
Artist Marc Bennett with his mosaic illustrating the history of the Star of David

Traveling Israel exhibit opens in Florida

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On one side of the seating area on Sunday, Dec. 8, was a documented German cattle car used to transport Jews from Warsaw to their death in Treblinka.  On the opposite side was a...

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...
“Les Maisons,” 1921 by Chaim Soutine. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Chaim Soutine artwork exhibited for first time in Israel in 50 years

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Now through March 21, Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, a kibbutz in northern Israel, is exhibiting the works of Chaim Soutine, one of the leading artists of the 20th century, for the first time...
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...
A view of the Temple Mount. Credit: Judy Lash Balint.

Temple Mount comes alive (literally) in new exhibit in Jerusalem

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A few years ago, The New York Times called Temple Mount “the world’s most contested piece of real estate.” This week, a new exhibit of photographs of the site that’s holy to billions of people around the...