Amy Winehouse exhibit opening at London’s Jewish Museum

Published on May 13, 2013

Most of the images we’ve seen of Amy Winehouse tend to depict only the wild and tragic parts of her life. That’s about to change.

Israeli museum exhibit simulates aging

Published on September 10, 2012

An Israeli children's museum opened an exhibit to simulate the aging process.

Romney tours site of future Polish Jewish museum

Published on July 31, 2012

Mitt Romney toured the site of the future Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

Polish billionaire Jan Kulczyk donates $6 million to Jewish museum

Published on July 3, 2012

Poland's richest person, Jan Kulczyk, has donated about $6 million to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

The fabric of dance at LACMA

Published on June 13, 2012

When artist Sharon Lockhart traveled to Israel in 2008, she wasn’t searching for Noa Eshkol. The Israeli dance composer and textile artist was not well-known outside her own country. In fact, Eshkol isn’t terribly well-known within Israel, where companies like Batsheva, Inbal, Bat Dor and the Israel Ballet hold far more cachet than Eshkol’s humble troupe.

Yad Vashem hit with anti-Israel, anti-Semitic graffiti

Published on June 11, 2012

Vandals spray painted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic graffiti at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.

From the heights of Mount Scopus

Published on 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

Published on May 21, 2012

Israel's Cabinet unanimously approved the establishment of an Albert Einstein museum in Jerusalem.

Anne Frank figure unveiled at Madame Tussauds in Berlin

Published on March 12, 2012

Madame Tussauds in Berlin unveiled a wax figure of Anne Frank depicted sitting at her desk, pen in hand, smiling dreamily.

Travel Happy Hour TODAY!

By Lisa Niver Rajna
Published on November 29, 2011

Tel Aviv museum launches $60 million capital campaign

Published on 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.

Polish museum opens exhibit on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising leader

Published on October 5, 2011

A Polish museum has opened a section dedicated to Marek Edelman, one of the commanders of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis.

How L.A. grew its own art

By Tom Teicholz
Published on September 7, 2011

For those of us who are not native to Los Angeles yet live here (some for more of our lives than anywhere else), there is a compulsion to define Los Angeles, to get control in some manner of this ever-changing city that is distinguished as much by its sprawl as its particulars, by its air and light as its buildings and institutions, by its self-made individualists as its patchwork of ethnic communities.

Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance wins Knesset approval to build

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on 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.

Picasso painting goes on display in Ramallah

Published on June 21, 2011

A Palestinian art academy has put a $7 million Picasso painting on display. The painting, Pablo Picasso's "Buste de femme," painted in 1943, is on loan from the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It went on display in Ramallah Monday as part of the “Picasso in Palestine” exhibit.

Holocaust exhibition repeatedly stolen in Romania

Published on June 17, 2011

Someone keeps stealing an exhibition about Jewish heritage and the Holocaust in Romania from a subway station in the country’s capital city. The exhibition, created by Israeli photographer Shani Bar On and Austrian-born journalist Emil Rennert, was sponsored by the Austrian Culture Forum and installed on the walls of a major Bucharest subway station June 11, but within 24 hours all of its 22 text and photo panels had vanished.

Sobibor museum closes due to lack of funds

Published on June 2, 2011

The museum at the Nazi death camp Sobibor closed due to a lack of funding. The museum in Poland on the grounds of the death camp announced Thursday that it closed because the regional government did not provide enough funding to keep it open, the German press agency dpa reported.

U.S. Holocaust museum presenting roll call of victims

Published on May 2, 2011

Holocaust survivors and members of the public are reading the names of Holocaust victims at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The reading at the museum's Hall of Remembrance began Sunday and will last through May 8.

U.S. Holocaust museum pushes West Coast visibility

By Ryan Torok
Published on April 26, 2011

During a lecture on genocide prevention at American Jewish University (AJU) on April 13, Michael Abramowitz, director of the Committee on Conscience at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, discussed a shift in the international community’s view of how to handle crimes against humanity. We’re seeing a “shift from a culture responding after the fact to a culture of prevention,” Abramowitz said.

Philadelphia Freedom

Published on April 12, 2011

From five stories up, it’s pretty easy to see what he couldn’t, with the expanse of Independence Mall splayed out below. Washington’s newly recreated house is straight ahead, right next to the Liberty Bell Pavilion. One block to the left is Independence Hall and, to the right, the National Constitution Center.

Austria to renovate Mauthausen

Published on March 30, 2011

Austria will renovate the site of the Mauthausen concentration camp in a $2.4 million restoration project. The two-year project will include creating a hall of names in memory of the camp's victims, a new display about the Holocaust and upgrading the permanent exhibition, according to reports.

Jewish museum officials decry Vienna exhibit destruction

Published on February 9, 2011

Directors of Jewish museums and educational institutes in Europe have written an open letter condemning the destruction of a 16-year-old exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Vienna. The exhibit, based on holograms, was removed recently to make way for a new exhibit due to open next summer. According to the museum's website, efforts to preserve the exhibit proved technically impossible.

Italy collecting Holocaust memorabilia for museums

Published on February 3, 2011

The Italian government has launched a national campaign to collect material related to the Holocaust and Jewish history in Italy for inclusion in two new museums. Called "Family Stories," the campaign was launched Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and will run through June 30.

Hitler’s Ukraine headquarters to be museum

Published on February 2, 2011

Hitler's Eastern front military headquarters in central Ukraine will be turned into a museum. The opening is scheduled for May 9, known as Victory Day, which marks the surrender of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in World War II.

Schindler’s List can be sold, judge rules

Published on December 27, 2010

A Manhattan judge has ruled that an original copy of Schindler's List can be sold.

New design set for Jerusalem tolerance museum

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 19, 2010

Architectural designs for a trimmed-down Museum of Tolerance in the center of Jerusalem, featuring massive top-to-bottom glass walls facing the city’s Independence Park, have been unveiled by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Museum launches fund to honor slain guard

Published on April 27, 2010

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has established an endowment fund in memory of a security guard slain there.

Constructing Holocaust memories: Where mind meets museum

Published on April 9, 2010

Even unfinished and not slated to open in the summer of 2010, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust already is creating a link to memories of the Shoah. (Edmon Rodman)

[VIDEO] Holocaust Survivor Identifies Herself in Museum Photo

By Jay Firestone
Published on March 5, 2009

The hip Jewish museum by the Bay, Nagler new JFS chief

Published on July 17, 2008

The new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is a hip amalgam of modern art. Daniel Liebeskind's peculiar architectural dazzle looks like a giant Rubik's Cube in metallic steel, standing on its tip beneath the city's downtown skyscrapers. Beside it is the Jessie Street Power Substation, a brick and terra cotta structure in the classical revival style, a landmark building first erected in 1881 that Liebeskind adapted to the project.

S.F.‘s new Contemporary Jewish Museum meshes art, ideas and architecture

By Sue Fishkoff
Published on June 5, 2008

"We want people to ask questions -- what does 'contemporary' mean?"

-- Connie Wolf, Executive Director, Contemporary Jewish Museum

Artists channel Genesis and Kabbalah in new museum’s inaugural exhibit

Published on June 5, 2008

The San Francisco museum is most similar to The Jewish Museum in New York in terms of focus, scale and public programming. But while the latter is a collecting institution that interprets the history of world Jewry, San Francisco's museum offers what director Connie Wolf described as "a contemporary perspective on Jewish art, culture and history."

Briefs: Drug and immigration bust at kosher meat plant, Israel says no Hamas truce without Schalit

Published on May 15, 2008

Briefs

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 12- 18

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on April 10, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 12- 18

LACMA gets contemporary

By Tom Teicholz
Published on December 27, 2007

In February, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will unveil the first phase of its renovation and expansion, including the opening of a new building devoted to contemporary art -- the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (that's Broad as in Eli and Edythe Broad, our local Medicis) or, as the acronymists at LACMA have dubbed it, BCAM.

Legends and lies

By Sam Hall Kaplan
Published on December 13, 2007

If the plans follow the promises of its sponsors, the site of the next preeminent national Jewish institution will be in the historic heart of Philadelphia.

There, steps from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, edging a revitalized Independence Mall, the proposed National Museum of American Jewish History is to begin construction early next year for its target completion date of July 4, 2010.

Abstract eye follows Dali in film at LACMA

By Tom Freudenheim
Published on September 20, 2007

Early in the last century, when film was a newer medium, many artists were intrigued by its kinetic visual possibilities, and for a fantasist like Dali, the opportunities must have seemed especially rich.

Love for ancient art lands local man in jail

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on May 17, 2007

Jerome Berman is the little-known California Museum of Ancient Art's sole employee, operating out of his North Hollywood apartment, and his desire to see it succeed motivated him to defraud the federal government of $263,000 by helping art donors, including himself, claim tax deductions to which they weren't entitled.

Ed Koch wants Prager out—will ask him to resign from Holocaust Memorial Council next week

By James Besser
Published on December 11, 2006

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council faces continuing questions over recent statements by one of its members, local commentator and writer Dennis Prager.

Prager won’t apologize after slamming Quran in Congress

By Adam Wills
Published on December 7, 2006

Ellison's decision to carry a Quran into the ceremony has infuriated some conservatives, who draw a fine line between constitutional rights and American tradition.

Fate of Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance rests with Israeli high court

Published on December 7, 2006

Pick a cause

By Amanda Martin
Published on November 30, 2006

In addition to my business, I always take on the opportunity to help in my own community. I believe that it is important to help out whenever you can, whether it's picking up trash at the beach or working at a charity benefit, as well as taking on new challenges.

Museum-hopping in Madrid, sans ham

By Hilary Larson
Published on October 19, 2006

What is the best museum town in the world?

Paris comes to mind, as does New York.

But as a certified art museum lover, I put my money on Madrid.

7 Days in the Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on September 21, 2006

7 Days in the Arts

British theater group Stan’s Cafe uses piles of rice to bring statistics to life

By Sarah Price Brown
Published on September 21, 2006

Upon entering the museum, visitors will receive a grain of rice, representing themselves. Then, they will walk into a room filled with 300 million grains of rice - one for every person in the United States. The rice will be divided into piles, each one illustrating a statistic, such as the number of people who have walked on the moon or the millions of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island. One grain of rice will stand for one person.

And there it will be, among all the piles: a large mound with 6 million pieces, representing each individual Jewish life lost in the Holocaust.

Now hear this: cool Jewish music

By George Robinson
Published on September 21, 2006

The second annual Jewish Music Awards were given out on Sept. 11.

Arts in L.A Calendar

Published on September 14, 2006

"The California Modernist Portrait"; "Vaudeville Extravaganza!"; "Five Days of Freedom: Photographs From the 1956 Hungarian Revolution"; Lucinda Williams and Miller Williams; and other events to see during September

Holy Moses—The Getty’s latest collection puts a Christian perspective on the leader, lawgiver and

By Tom L. Freudenheim
Published on September 14, 2006

The Getty Center's upcoming exhibition "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai" (Nov. 14-March 4) provides a great opportunity to ponder these religious confluences, while also coming almost face-to-face with some of the earliest, and most beautiful, images in Christian art.

Keep Your Eyes Open

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on August 24, 2006

Kein v' Lo: Snack Attack.

Circuit

Published on August 24, 2006

Circuit News; GOP in the Library With A Tribute; The Great Statesmen; Fond of the New Rabbi; All About Ethics.

Dalai Lama Concepts Inspire Works of 3 Jewish Artists

By Morris Newman
Published on August 10, 2006

To paraphrase an old rye bread ad, you don't have to be Buddhist to admire his holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, or at least that's so in the case of at least three Jewish artists, who lend their artistic voices to "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama," an exhibition currently at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

7 Days in the Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on July 19, 2006

Briefs

Published on June 22, 2006

Briefs

Show Decodes Early Years of 2 Religions

By Tom L. Freudenheim
Published on May 18, 2006

Whether it's good luck or good planning, the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in the Cleveland area has hit the exhibition jackpot with its current show, "Cradle of Christianity," which runs through Oct. 22. Because while the film version of "The Da Vinci Code" is generating buzz over a purported tale of Jesus, here's an exhibition with tantalizing real objects that provide an actual glimpse from the years of early Christianity.

Time to Watch and Learn at the Zimmer

By Marc Ballon
Published on May 11, 2006

A new exhibit at the Zimmer Children's Museum shows that when sliced, diced and deconstructed by artists and humanitarians, timepieces can edify, entertain and even inveigh against social injustice.

9/11 Museum Head Uses Shoah Lessons

By Matthew E. Berger
Published on April 27, 2006

For more than two decades, Alice Greenwald has been helping to give people a palpable understanding of the Holocaust through her work with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Numb? Never Again

By Reina Slutske
Published on March 30, 2006

When I was 11, on the verge of adolescence, the world developed Holocaust frenzy. It was 1993, the year Steven Spielberg released "Schindler's List," considered by many to be one of the definitive movies about the Holocaust. That same year, the Washington Holocaust museum opened.

yeLAdim

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on March 30, 2006

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Community Briefs

By David Finnigan
Published on March 23, 2006

Reclaimed Art to Be Shown at LACMA
A Razed Jewish Building's Postmortem
L.A. Federation Names New Board Chair

Community Briefs

By Yaakov Katz
Published on March 2, 2006

One of two Jewish candidates seeking the Republican nomination for California insurance commissioner has pulled out of the race.