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The Cantankerous Pre-History of America’s Jews

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The conventional narrative of Jewish America begins in the 1880s, with the massive influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe to New York and other cities. Their descendants indeed make up the majority of today’s...
Smadar Samson amid ceramics featured in the “Israel–70 Years of Crafts and Design” exhibit at the Mingei International Museum (Photo by Melissa Jacobs)

70 years of Israeli crafts on display at Mingei

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The Mingei International Museum’s current exhibition of Israeli crafts and design is a retrospective that incorporates aspects of the Jewish State’s history with what the exhibit’s curator, Smadar Samson, describes as four major themes...

Discovery of Bar Kochba-era coin declared at Lag B’Omer

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As Jews across Israel and around the world celebrated Lag B’Omer, a holiday commemorating the life of anti-Roman Torah sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, Israeli authorities announced that they had found a symbol of...

Dutch Jews fume over a plan to turn a historic synagogue into a restaurant

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Jews in the central Netherlands city of Deventer are outraged over a plan by a Turkish developer to turn a historic synagogue into an eatery. According to local media reports, developer Ayhan Sahin recently bought the...

נאָך אַלץ גילטיק דער גירוש-באַפֿעל קעגן ייִדן אין ענגלאַנד

דער גירוש-באַפֿעל, װעלכן דער קעניג עדװאַרד דער ערשטער האָט אַרויסגעגעבן קעגן די ייִדן פֿון בריטאַניע אין יאָר 1290, איז נאָך אַלץ נישט גילטיק. כּדי אים אָפּצושאַפֿן, איז נייטיק די חתימה פֿון דער ענגלישער קעניגין. װעגן...

Sinagoga medieval debasho de una butika en Ingletierra

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En el mundo ay algunos lugares ke verdadmente tienen una istoria djudia kuaje totalmente eskondida.  Ma de ves en kuando un jurnalisto  los topa i mo los aze saver, grasias al Internet.  Asnsina podimos...

Black History Month: Harlem’s Ethiopian Jews

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For the month of February, writer Antwaun Sargent was invited to explore works of art in the Jewish Museum collection that celebrate the intersection of black and Jewish experience. The series continues with Photo...

Eighth century clay seal with ‘signature of prophet Isaiah’ found in Jerusalem

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A historic archaeological discovery near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount may be proof of the life of the biblical prophet Isaiah, according to an article in the Biblical Archaeology Review.  A broken, eighth-century BCE clay seal impression,...

Jewish Roots

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“Kehillah: A History of Jewish Life in Greater Orlando,” which runs through February 20 at the Orange County Regional History Center, is also a family history. Fuchs, who led the community task force that organized...

Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage

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Nestled at the base of a small hill sloping down from Richmond Road is the Maltz Museum of Jewish History, the single-story structure of glistening glass and golden Jerusalem limestone complementing the graceful domes of Temple-Tifereth Israel rising up from behind. Once...