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israel
Rare chance to see ancient biblical artifacts, documents
Jewish Journal
March 5, 2014
An exhibition of more than 200 of the world’s rarest biblical manuscripts is drawing big crowds to the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem.
Yad Vashem hit with anti-Israel, anti-Semitic graffiti
Jewish Journal
June 11, 2012
Vandals spray painted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic graffiti at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.
From the heights of Mount Scopus
Jewish Journal
May 24, 2012
Dr. Avraham Biran, director of Israel’s Department of Antiquities, received a call early on the second day of the war from the wife of Yigael Yadin, the former army chief of staff and Israel’s most eminent archaeologist.
Albert Einstein museum to be built in Jerusalem
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2012
Israel\’s Cabinet unanimously approved the establishment of an Albert Einstein museum in Jerusalem.
Tel Aviv museum launches $60 million capital campaign
Jewish Journal
November 17, 2011
The Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Beit Hatfutsot, is launching a $60 million capital campaign in New York to raise money for renovations and new exhibits and programming.\n
Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance wins Knesset approval to build
Jonah Lowenfeld
July 12, 2011
After years of delays due to legal challenges and fundraising setbacks, the Simon Wiesenthal Center received permission on July 12 from the Israeli Ministry of the Interior’s District Planning and Construction Committee to begin construction on the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem. The ministry gave a green light to a revised design for the building, saying that because the building’s footprint would remain the same as an earlier plan, a new review process would not be necessary.
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