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Cologne Building Museum in Historic Jewish Quarter to Fight Anti-Semitism

By JNi.Media

Over its history, the Jewish community of Cologne has suffered persecutions, many expulsions, massacres and destruction.

Jewish / US / News Briefs / France / Business and Economy / Arts and Entertainment

NY Jewish Museum Celebrates French Designer, Architect Pierre Chareau

By JNi.Media

Chareau, whose wife Dollie Dyte Chareau was Jewish and whose mother came from a Sephardic family, fled to the United States in 1940.

Jewish / NY / UK / History / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

'Mrs. Carl Meyer and her Children' at the Jewish Museum

By JNi.Media

Lady Meyer was a socially concerned philanthropist supporting working class women, underprivileged families, and women’s suffrage.

Jewish / UK / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

Jewish Photographer Dorothy Bohm Brings Back 'Sixties London'

By JNi.Media

Bohm escaped Nazism in 1939 when she was sent to England to finish her schooling, armed with a Leica camera handed to her by her father as she was departing.

Terrorism / Antisemitism / News Briefs / The Knesset / Media / European Union

EU Counter-Anti-Semitism Czar: Our Goal to Allow Jews Fear-Free Life in Europe

By JNi.Media

A Rabbi of the Rabbinical Center of Europe told the EU official she cannot constantly undermine the foundations of Judaism: brit milah and kosher shechitah, and talk about wanting to eradicate anti-Semitism.

Terrorism / Syria / Antisemitism / News Briefs / France / ISIS

ISIS Terrorist Identified as Murderer in Brussels Jewish Museum Attack

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The shooter "probably acted alone” – Belgium deputy prosecutor Ine Van Wymersch after the murderous attack in June 2013.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Updated: 3 Killed in Brussels Jewish Museum Shooting

By Jewish Press News Desk

Four people were killed in a shooting at the Brussel's Jewish Museum on Saturday morning.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Media

Anti-Israel Blogger Defends His Racism Against Black Zionist

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Chloé Valdary was hurt by the overt racism directed at her just for being a Zionist

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

NYC's Jewish Museum Invites, then Uninvites, Major BDS Advocate

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

NYC's Jewish Museum portrayed pro-Israel patrons as the bad guys in a Kafkaesque episode.

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Polish Righteous Gentile Donates Memorabilia to Jewish Museum

By JTA

A Polish historian and statesman who was imprisoned at Auschwitz and recognized as a Righteous Gentile for saving Jews in World War II has donated a collection of his memorabilia to a museum in Poland. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, 91 and a  former member  of the underground “Żegota” Polish Council to Aid Jews during the Holocaust, presented […]

Jewish / News Briefs / Religion

Putin Visits Russian Jewish Museum

By Jewish Press News Desk

Russian President Vladimir Putin and other Russian dignitaries joined Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar for a special tour of the Russian Jewish Museum of Tolerance, considered the largest Jewish museum in the world. Federation of Jewish Communities president Alexander Boroda also was present to escort Putin at the museum exhibits in the 90,000-square-foot former bus […]

Jewish / News Briefs

Vienna Jewish Museum Contains Looted Objects, Officials Say

By JTA

Officials from the Jewish Museum of Vienna said that hundreds of objects in the museum’s possession were looted from Jewish families during the Holocaust. A review of the artifacts found 490 objects and more than 980 books that may have been stolen from Jewish owners, The New York Times reported Wednesday. “For historic reasons, people […]

Arts

Crossing Borders: Masterpieces from the Bodleian Library

By Richard McBee

In the eyes of the ram lies the artist’s commentary on the Rosh Hashanah piyyut “The King Girded with Strength.” From the Tripartite Mahzor (German 14th century), this illumination simultaneously echoes the piyyut’s praise of God’s awesome power and expresses the terror of actually being a sacrifice to God. The ram is but a reflection of Isaac. It is all in the eyes.

Arts

Crossing Borders: Masterpieces from the Bodleian Library

By Richard McBee

In the eyes of the ram lies the artist’s commentary on the Rosh Hashanah piyyut “The King Girded with Strength.” From the Tripartite Mahzor (German 14th century), this illumination simultaneously echoes the piyyut’s praise of God’s awesome power and expresses the terror of actually being a sacrifice to God. The ram is but a reflection of Isaac. It is all in the eyes.

News Briefs

Polish Billionaire Donates 20 Million Zloty to Jewish Museum

By Jewish Press News Desk

Polish billionaire Jan Kulczyk's company Kulczyk Holding has donated zł.20 million, or close to $6 million, for the construction of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, reports Gazeta Wyborcza. The total cost of construction is expected to reach zł.320 million, or around $96 million, with the museum opening its doors in 2013. “Life […]

Arts

Edouard Vuillard, 1890-1940, at the Jewish Museum

By Jewish Press Staff

"Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940" has opened at the New York Jewish Museum and will run through September 23. The exhibition offers a fresh view of the French artist Edouard Vuillard’s career, from the vanguard 1890s to the urbane domesticity of the lesser-known late portraits.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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