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Art After the massacre, a profound abyss that one Tel Aviv tattoo artist is trying to fill with art
Inbal Hoffman used holes as a motif in her art; now they have taken on new meaning
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Art In painting the horrors of both Ukraine and Israel at war, an artist finds echoes of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’
Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has been making art about the October 7th Hamas attacks and their aftermath
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Culture A high-tech answer to the dilemma of how to teach the Holocaust to kids without traumatizing them
"Courage to Act" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage uses hologram-like videos to recount the escape of 95% of Danish Jews to neutral Sweden
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Art A new golem is born with a new mission — protecting vulnerable communities and cultural history
Michael Rakowitz creates monuments from the destruction of other monuments
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Art It was one of the strangest Jewish records ever made — good luck finding a way to listen to it
Avant-garde stalwart Lionel Ziprin once said his grandfather, Rabbi Nuftali Zvi Margolies, could sing better than Enrico Caruso
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Art Haunting, poignant, unsettling, riveting — images from the precarious lives of artists in a diverse Israeli city
The art in 'Tales and Textiles' at JCC Manhattan reflects divergent backgrounds and similar experiences
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Theater Once, this play about an underground abortion network was history; now, it’s timelier than ever
Paula Kamen’s ‘Jane: Abortion and the Underground’ looks prescient in the post-Roe v. Wade era
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Culture How a multi-faith, multiracial team of artists is waging a nationwide billboard campaign to fight antisemitism
'The Highest Form of Wisdom is Kindness' debuts in time for the High Holidays and looks to build solidarity in the face of hate.
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Opinion Trump drew Arab leaders into a historic peace agreement. Too bad about the one glaring caveat
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