The Forward6d
How one Jewish geneticist turned a family tragedy into a lifesaving mission.
Editor’s note: This essay was adapted from “The Dressmaker’s Mirror,” a new book about sudden death and Ashkenazi Jewish mutations. In Jewish communities, conversations about genetic ...
Colossal4d
Paradise and Precarity Merge in Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Paintings of Los Angeles Life
For Jessica Taylor Bellamy, juxtapositions, transparency, and layers shape a way of working that evokes her family history ...
At the Maine Jewish Museum, an art exhibit, a protest -- then a conversation
On a frigid night in January, the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland hosted a talk with photographer Hedva Rokach, who was visiting from Israel for an exhibition of her work. Inside the museum, Rokach ...
Cleveland Jewish News6d
The Pink Peacock, Glasgow’s queer-friendly, Yiddish-oriented, anti-Zionist cafe, sets its sights on Brooklyn
The Pink Peacock, the anarchist, queer-friendly kosher Yiddish café that operated in Glasgow, Scotland for three years, is looking to reopen in Brooklyn this summer.
The Jerusalem Post Blogs3d
'Forgotten Childhoods': New Yad Vashem exhibit shows Jewish childhoods during Holocaust
Many European Jews who were saved from the Nazis avoided ... small-scale exhibition “Forgotten Childhoods” at Yad Vashem’s Museum of Art, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day ...
Portland Press Herald5d
At the Maine Jewish Museum, an art exhibit, a protest – then a conversation
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UVA Today6d
Culture in Their Hands: Students Shape Exhibition of Jewish-Inspired Objects
UVA students selected objects for display and crafted museum text for The Fralin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency1d
Folk guitarist Nathan Salsburg makes experimental soundscapes from old Jewish phonograph records
Shelley is not Jewish, but she and Salsburg — who has ... over time of Yiddish-language and klezmer music marketed to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants in the early part of the 20th century.
Jewish Press6d
The Art Of Silence (Part II)
Last week, we related how Rav Elyah Lopian, zt”l, zy”a, declared that having the strength to keep one’s mouth shut at the right time is a greater accomplishment than Avraham Avinu’s and ...
Arutz Sheva3d
Medical source: 'Just like the Jews in concentration camps'
and Or Levy does not differ from the condition of the Jews who suffered in the Nazi concentration camps. The source also said that their condition is similar to that of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit ...
The New York Times2d
Art and Design
An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.
The Utah Review9h
Like a perfectly fitted glass slipper: Cinderella showcases Ballet West at the heights of its artistic strengths
Out of old tales, we must make new lives,” the great literary scholar Carolyn Heilbrun once wrote. For London audiences still ...