Museums

Virtual visits to the synagogues of Damascus, Aleppo, and Tripoli.

June 2 2020 12:01AM

The museum’s latest core exhibition reveals a distance from Judaism indistinguishable from disregard, embarrassment, and disdain.

May 13 2019 12:01AM

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.”

May 6 2019 12:01AM

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.

Jan. 2 2018 12:01AM

From Islamic manuscripts to Quaker bonnets to Torah scrolls.

Jenna Weissman Joselit
Aug. 21 2017 12:01AM

A new exhibit in Santa Fe.

Rich Tenorio
Aug. 22 2016 12:01AM

From Berlin then to Oberlin now.

May 13 2016 12:01AM

“The parties to the conflict . . . will not be swayed by the language of artists.”

March 25 2016 12:01AM

A museum exhibit returns.

Diane Bolz
Nov. 18 2015 12:01AM

The story of an Ottoman Jewish family in Paris.

Christina Sztajnkrycer
June 8 2015 12:01AM

New York’s Museum of Biblical Art is closing, because it’s “too religious.”

Naomi Schaefer Riley
May 15 2015 12:01AM