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Art In Israel, an artist confronts his demons — and urges us to face our own
The Haifa-based Shahar Sivan has created a forest full of nightmares
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Art How Jews have confronted the seemingly eternal scourge of hatred
Two new exhibits in New York grapple with the ravages wrought by antisemitism
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Art At the age of 95, an American Jewish artist finally gets his due
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, painter Alex Katz is bound for the Guggenheim in Manhattan
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Yiddish World Paintings of Torah study that are true works of art
In all the author’s art history graduate courses, the word ‘Jewish’ was never mentioned
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Art A friend to artists, an inspiration to students, Alex Rosenberg lived a life of activism and reinvention
The businessman-turned-gallerist has died at 103
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Culture The ephemeral beauty of a loaf of challah, immortalized in art
An archive of challahs past, ‘Parchment,’ from artist Rob Shostak, makes use of the delicate imprints each loaf leaves during the baking process
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Culture How a Black, queer, Jewish artist uses her work to change the world
The art of 24-year-old Ayeola Omolara Kaplan confronts racism, antisemitism and misogyny
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Culture Using previously unknown photographs, a new Holocaust documentary demands to be seen
In ‘From Where They Stood,’ harrowing images were taken by the concentration camp prisoners themselves
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