Virtual visits to the synagogues of Damascus, Aleppo, and Tripoli.
Balancing the universal and the particular.
The museum’s latest core exhibition reveals a distance from Judaism indistinguishable from disregard, embarrassment, and disdain.
From its priceless collection of artworks, a foremost cultural institution has harvested mainly inferior examples for display, while submerging Jewish identity in a sea of “universal values.”
Critics accuse it of threatening the separation of church and state; in truth, Washington’s new museum makes an invaluable contribution to American (and Jewish) cultural literacy.
From Islamic manuscripts to Quaker bonnets to Torah scrolls.
Affirmative-action curation.
Adrift on a flood of speculation.
From Berlin then to Oberlin now.
“The parties to the conflict . . . will not be swayed by the language of artists.”
A museum exhibit returns.
The story of an Ottoman Jewish family in Paris.
New York’s Museum of Biblical Art is closing, because it’s “too religious.”