Tag: Exhibits

Israel has pulled out of a planned exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Frankfurt because the German government would not guarantee their return if claimed by Palestinians. The Frankfurt Bible Museum announced that it...

Discovering Iraqi Mesorah: Reflections on an Exhibit Fragments of a sefer Torah, open to Parashas Lech Lecha, a Gemara Maseches Yoma, a large sefer Tehillim — at least 18 inches tall — a religious guidebook...

When 2018 rolls round, the cottage industry dedicated to poring over the 100-year legacy of the Russian Revolution will be put to bed. And while the sheer volume of exhibitions, books, TV series and...

San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum has opened a new exhibit dedicated to the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest, at its historic SOMA building. Sabbath: The 2017 Dorothy Saxe Invitational can be seen at CJM (736 Mission St. between...

WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — Eight decades ago, Jewish archivists facing death in the Warsaw Ghetto hid a trove of documents they hoped would bear testimony to the sufferings of the Holocaust. Now part of the...

When the Israel Museum put a burka-style garment on display in an exhibition on Jewish clothing, some visitors were confused: What does a full-body cloak associated with Islam have to do with Jewish fashions? A...

An exhibit of unearthed photographs is offering a heartbreaking glimpse into an unforgivable part of our past. With Chip Reid, we uncover it again: Krysia Rosenstein speaks of a childhood of nightmares: "And they were...

This week, the Jewish world celebrates Jerusalem Day and marks 50 years since the reunification of Jerusalem and the Six Day War. To honor the occasion, the Keren Kayemet Le’Israel-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) opened...