Jews and chocolate: 500 years of sweetness
Sephardic Jews who were expelled in the late 15th century from Portugal and Spain learned about cocoa and the production of chocolate from the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Keeping...
Traveling Israel exhibit opens in Florida
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...
Exhibit at Museum for Islamic Art features Jewish jewelers from the Arab world
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...
Love letters of the Shoah: Messages thrown from cattle cars convey final wishes, prayers,...
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...
Holocaust train car arrives in New York for Auschwitz exhibit in New York
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...
Art meets science: Is that a field of flowers or the brain of a...
An exhibit by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa exemplifies that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
“LABSCAPES: Views Through the Microscope” showcases the work of renowned researchers at Israel’s leading institute...
New UN exhibit shows Israel’s ‘Above and Beyond’ humanitarian efforts around the world
An exhibit accessible for one week at the United Nations headquarters in New York City highlighted Israel’s humanitarian-aid efforts across the globe.
Organized by the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, “Israel’s Humanitarian Aid Around...
Temple Mount comes alive (literally) in new exhibit in Jerusalem
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...
Medicine and design exhibit opens at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem
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,...