Tag: art

Outside the doors of power.

Let’s touch the Light!

A peek inside the Agam Museum in Rishon LeZion, dedicated to the work of Israeli artist Yaakov Agam.

In November 2016 over 2000 paintings and 40 years of work were destroyed by fire in Moshav Beit Meir. Yoram Raanan and his wife Meira speak with Eve Harow about their studio’s loss and the deep connection to God, Torah, Israel and Judaism that defines their lives and life’s work today on Rejuvenation.

An art exhibition featuring the paintings of Israeli children and adults with disabilities opened at the South Wall of United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The exhibit draws attention to the refugee crisis and features works of welded iron superimposed over Reuter’s photographs of refugees.

Yeshivoth are producing students with a prodigious amount of Jewish knowledge, but are they serving the students and are the Yeshivoth producing real Torah scholars or just walking encyclopedias?

The Limbach Commission, a panel set up by Germany to return Nazi-looted art in public collections, has already issued a recommendation against returning a painting by Gris that used to hang in Flechtheim’s Berlin apartment.

Many locals boycotted the cinema because unmarried men and women drank alcohol and even slept together in the guest house that was attached to Cinema Jenin.

Rudolf-August Oetker was the grandson of Dr. August Oetker. He ran the company from 1944 to 1981.

Many of our greatest artists have produced striking graphic works on these subjects; what follows is a selection of original artwork from my Sukkot collection.

How does the Torah explain the concept of time?

Looking at art and describing what we see, helps sharpen our visual intelligence and communicate more effectively.

It seems that Bavaria thought restitution meant restitution to the Nazis rather than to their victims.

The Guggenheim Museum should remove this article, not because of censorship but because the museum should not publish lies, fabrications and slander.

I think these tree, If trees they be, Are Dr. Seuss's, Can't you see? A Tfuffula tree, I count three Sprouting up in front...

The present director transformed the Israel Museum into a world-class institution and doubled visitor numbers.

Israeli artists build an ice wall at the Davidson Center, near the Kotel in Jerusalem. The wall was based on a piece by American artist...

It was probably the first time that the marble relief portrait of Moses hanging in the House Chamber ever received such public acknowledgement.

On Thursday evening, students at the Orot Etzion Boys Elementary School in Efrat reenacted different Biblical scenes as part of an interactive live art/Torah...

A Chagall tapestry was rehung in the Knesset on February 5, 2015, after it was removed for reconstruction work.

The crimes from the Nazi regime still are being discovered.

Yehuda Poltzak is an artist from the Hareidi town of Beitar. He creates Judaica artifacts that decorate the homes and sukkahs of rabbis and...

Collection seized by German officials in 2012, but owner said he'd come to it all legally. Perhaps he considered stealing from Jews legal?

Two artworks hanging in Germany’s parliament building in Berlin may have been confiscated or acquired at artificially depressed prices by the Nazis from the...

German authorities have bowed to international pressure and are publishing a partial list of artworks found in a Munich apartment. The spectacular art find...

Two artworks sold under duress during the Nazi occupation of Germany will be returned to the heirs of New York art collector Michael Berolzheimer,...

An interview with Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and author of The Art of Possibility.

An uproar over the appropriation of the burnt remains of Jewish Holocaust victims for use in an artwork has swept the Jewish world and raised questions as to how the ashes remaining at European concentration camps are treated.

Hamshushalayim is the central cultural festival of the winter season in Israel that attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year and offers a...