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...
Jewish Theological Seminary exhibition explores history of marriage, ‘ketubahs’
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...
‘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...
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...
The Art of Transformation: Vasily Kandinsky at the Guggenheim
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,...
‘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...
‘Rendering Witness’ displays risks artists took while the Holocaust raged in Europe
Artwork made by eyewitnesses who documented their experiences during and shortly after the Holocaust, often in secret and while risking their lives, are showcased in a new exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living...
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...
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...
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...