By Jenna Weissman Joselit
Real artifacts mix with ersatz boulders at the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in Times Square. Jenna Weissman Joselit wonders if Moses might be coming to town next.
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By Jenna Weissman Joselit
The Gallery of Jewish Art made a case for the moral urgency of artistic expression in the 1940s. Its founders insisted that Jewish art was an cultural imperative.
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By Jenna Weissman Joselit
We are all aware of Israel’s ancient history of ruins and archeology. But it has an extraordinarily rich architecture from the colonial era as well.
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By Jenna Weissman Joselit
The other night I dreamed that my parents, siblings and I were sitting in the sukkah, making polite conversation with our guests, when the sukkah’s rickety wooden walls were breached by the high-pitched and insistent cry of my mother’s name: “Al-ice, Al-ice.”Read More
By Jenna Weissman Joselit
Kol Nidre is the one prayer American Jews know well. Wonders of America columnist Jenna Weissman Joselit looks at one rabbi’s unsuccessful attempt to get rid of it.
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