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National Library of Israel receives gift of original David Moss Haggadah

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The National Library of Israel has received the original version of a modern masterpiece of Hebrew manuscript illumination: the Moss Haggadah. Created by renowned Judaica artist David Moss, it is a large-format, handwritten and...

Judaica collector gives some pointers to the University of Virginia

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Clay Barr’s husband Jay D. A. Barr had been ill for “quite a long time” when she brought him home in early 1994. “There was no more to be done, and I’m pacing around...

Minneapolis art exhibit depicting Chanukah heroine Judith centers on ‘ghastly’ Caravaggio decapitation

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There is no way around the goriness of Caravaggio’s “Judith and Holofernes,” which the Italian artist painted around 1599. The Chanukah heroine (almost a dead ringer for Scarlett Johansson) is midway through chopping the Assyrian general’s...
Detail of "Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Therese Karl)" (1890) by Fritz von Uhde. Credit: Städel museum, Frankfurt.

Frankfurt returns painting to heirs of Jewish collector murdered in the Holocaust

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Fritz von Uhde’s painting “Portray of a Lady” will be restituted to the heirs of Jewish collector Gustav Rüdenberg, according to an agreement with the Städel museum in Frankfurt, Germany, which the New York...
Omer calendar, 18th century, the Netherlands, ink and gouache on parchment. Credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Museum, New York, gift of Dr. Harry G. Friedman.

Omer counters blend space and time, past and present

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Tobi Kahn grasps an asymmetric block of wood in both hands. He turns the piece, a fluid combination of angles and curves painted a rich metallic pewter, to reveal the base: a perfect rectangle,...
The dedication of the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza at 16th and Arch Streets on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. The sculpture on the left, Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs by Holocaust survivor Nathan Rapoport, was originally dedicated at this site in 1964. Credit: Campramah via Wikimedia Commons.

Open call for artists to design mural for Philadelphia Holocaust memorial

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Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation issued an open call to artists to design a 2,000-foot mural to be a part of the city’s Holocaust memorial. The site is home to a 1964 statue that reportedly...
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Credit: ADL.

ADL condemns neo-Nazi protests of Broadway play about antisemitic lynching

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With a book by Alfred Uhry, and lyrics and music by Jason Robert Brown, the 1998 musical “Parade” tells the tragic story of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, who was tried, convicted and sentenced to death...
Gene Simmons, bassist and co-lead singer of the rock band KISS; and his wife Shannon Tweed-Simmons, visit the Pentagon meeting with members of the Joint Staff including Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Army Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell, Senior Enlisted Advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, May 16, 2019. Credit: DoD Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Gene Simmons of Kiss fame to unveil mural of Polish Catholic Holocaust hero

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Artists 4 Israel is expanding its series of murals honoring Righteous Among the Nations. It’s doing so with a “kiss” this time. The collective, which enlists artists to combat antisemitism and anti-Israel bigotry through their work,...
A stack of books by British author Roald Dahl. Credit: Shutterstock.

Publisher puts softer words in mouth of controversial writer Roald Dahl

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One of history’s great literary revisionism discussions ensues when Moses and God converse after the Golden Calf fiasco. If God does not forgive the Israelites, “Erase me, now, from the book You wrote,” Moses...
Artwork by Taring Padi at the Documenta 15 festival in Kassel, Germany, was covered upafter a backlash against its anti-Semitic images, June 22, 2022. Credit: Kira Stephanie Loba//Shutterstock.

German anti-Semitic arts scandal continues to foment after festival director resigns

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In the continued fallout of the scandal surrounding anti-Semitic works presented at the Documenta 15 art festival in Kassel, Germany, director Sabine Schormann has announced her resignation. The Jewish community, however, has called for actual consequences...