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Tiffany Shlain uses trees and technology to trace Jewish history in new exhibit

Artist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain talks about a new exhibit of work that includes 5,000 years of Jewish history etched into ...
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Culture Meets Creativity Inside the Jewish Museum’s New Space for Kids and Families

The Jewish Museum is one of the premier centers to learn about Jewish history, culture, art, and storytelling in New York City. Following a significant expansion, the Jewish Museum recently debuted a ...
The Forward

For this historian, anti-Zionism is part of a hallowed Jewish tradition

In 1935, the leftist magazine The New Masses published a scathing profile of the militant Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky, blasting his visions of empire in Palestine and calling him a “Jewish Hitler.” ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Frustrated by Chicago’s Jewish institutions, anti-Zionist artists are forming their own Jewish cultural center

Seeing a lack of a distinctively Jewish contemporary arts hub in Chicago, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González set out to create their own. Returning to Chicago from an artist residency in Maine, Gabriel ...
Jewish Journal

Worldly Wisdom and the Jewish Tradition of Translation

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a National Jewish Book Award shows, such a work is not only real, it testifies to ...
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Mir Castle to host exhibition about Jewish culture and traditions

GRODNO, 11 March (BelTA) - Traditional ritual clothes, paintings, objects and photos telling about national traditions from the Museum of History and Culture of the Jews of Belarus, of the Mir Castle ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews

There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image of a sign in a restaurant window. “The Chinese Restaurant Association of the United States would like to extend our thanks to the Jewish ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Jewish Food Is Making a Comeback in Poland

It’s late morning in Warsaw, and we pick a place—nothing special—to have breakfast. “Look,” I say to my husband and children, quickly scanning the menu, making my way through various preparations of ...