First-ever film festival in Samaria to screen two-dozen movies in four days
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...
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...
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...
‘Nova 6.29’ exhibit is a way to work through the grief
“I came looking for Nadav’s sweatshirt and hat. I stayed because I felt close to him—as if I could live through what he lived through,” Hedva Biton from Ofakim told JNS at the “Nova...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Chaim Soutine artwork exhibited for first time in Israel in 50 years
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...