admin | April 11, 2024
Artist Firelei Bez in her studio PHOTO: SUNNY LEERASANTHANAH Firelei Bez, the spellbinding exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston through Sept. 2, is the first U.S. survey of this Dominican American artist, whose works are often described as history paintings for our time.
admin | April 11, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) Ive known Hanna Slome for my entire life: She and her husband Henry Slome were close friends of my parents. I knew that in the 1930s, Henry fled Nazi Germany and Hanna had somehow gotten out of Czechoslovakia, but I didnt know the details of her escape
admin | April 11, 2024
The sanctuary inside KI that Shaare Shamayim might now use. (Photo by Jarrad Saffren) In 1966, Congregation Shaare Shamayim of South Philadelphia merged with the Greater Northeast Jewish Congregation. The unified community later changed its name to Congregation Shaare Shamayim GNJC
admin | April 11, 2024
Our recent Solidarity Mission to Israel was truly an incredible and moving experience. From Kabbalat Shabbat with the warm community of Kehilat Veahavta to thought-provoking discussions on Jewish identity at ANU Museum, every moment was filled with connection to our Judaism and shaping Progressive Zionism. We visited the Gaza Envelope where we met remarkable individuals like Eli, whose courage in defending Kibbutz Mefalsim left a lasting impression on us
admin | March 30, 2024
The author Georgia Hunter grew up hearing that her granduncle kept a fake penis foreskin on hand in case he had to show proof that he wasnt Jewish in Warsaw during the Holocaust. As the story was told to Hunter, her relative, an architect named Adam, was so desperate not to be discovered as Jewish that he stuck a bandage on his member with an egg white and water mixture
admin | March 30, 2024
(March 27, 2024 / JNS) KADIMA-ZORAN, IsraelWalking cane in hand, the small elderly man hovers over the two fresh graves, gingerly watering the potted plants adorning them. He straightens the pictures of the young men, arranges the stones and mementos, and cleans off the tombstones. I know what pain is, Yaakov Lubinewski, 99, whose entire family was murdered by the Nazis eight decades ago, told a freshly bereaved Israeli father nearly six months ago in the aftermath of Hamass Oct
admin | March 21, 2024
Throughout its history, the Whitney Biennial has often reflected the heated discourse of the art world, welcoming provocative work that might ruffle feathers. But museum officials and curators said they were taken by surprise by a message that revealed itself in the flickering lights of a neon installation
admin | March 21, 2024
SPEAKING OUT, AND EATING: Some 100 British fashion figures including Zandra Rhodes, David Sassoon, Solange Azagury-Partridge, Suzy Menkes, Caroline Burstein and Caroline Rush gathered at the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London on Saturday morning for a religious and social event hosted by Fashion & Beauty Against Antisemitism. Cohosts Deborah Lyons and Mandi Lennard called it a special fashion kiddush, and after a morning of prayers, guests spilled into the synagogues reception hall to graze on traditional foods, including honey cake, cholent and latkes, fish balls and mini-bagels with chopped herring.
admin | March 21, 2024
Boustan, the historian of Judaism, agrees, adding that the theme of Gods deliverance through human warriors in the face of foreign domination is something that comes across very strongly.
admin | March 13, 2024
Dan Asia, second from right, carries Handmaker Jewish Services for the Agings Czech Holocaust Torah during a commemorative event at the Arizona Jewish Historical Society in Phoenix on Feb. 25, 2024. (Photo courtesy Arizona Jewish Historical Society) A commemorative service in Phoenix on Sunday, Feb
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