This Fall’s Jewish Cultural Events
The Khust synagogue. Photo by J. Fixler via wikimedia/creative Commons. A pin from the Colmar Treasure. Jeweled brooch, from the Colmar Treasure, second quarter 14th century. Gilded silver,...
Tag: Jewish Identity
June 18, 2019
The Moon is Celebrating an Anniversary
The moon is celebrating an anniversary. We are fascinated by the moon. It is referenced in song lyrics and featured in works of art called moonscapes. We look for the face of the man in the...
May 30, 2019
Culture and Cuisine: Happenings from All Over
Beth Lipman (b. 1971): One and Others, 2011. Glass, wood and silicone. Courtesy Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, Purchase R. H. Norton Trust through the exchange of other Trust properties,...
April 23, 2019
Passover Judaica From the B’nai B’rith Klutznick Collection
Manuscripts, diaries, Torah binders, menorahs, amulets, coins, notary stamps, wedding dresses, Yiddish theater playbills: all of these and much more, from nearly every country and every century, are...
March 28, 2019
Carnegie Hall Celebrates ‘Migrations’
“East and West”/Photo Credit: Itzhak Andres/Wikimedia Ongoing since late February, “Migrations: The Making of America” celebrates the all-encompassing transformation of New York...
March 13, 2019
The Roots of the Menorah in B’nai B’rith
As B’nai B’rith continues to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the menorah continues to be a link to the past, a commitment to the present and a promise for the...
February 5, 2019
New Book About Rod Serling
Cover collage by Rob Cooper. Design by Pete Halverson. Courtesy of University Press of Mississippi. In hundreds of scripts that mated the psychology of horror with the nuclear nightmare of postwar...