How the Jewish Museum brought Black film history to new audiences
A revival of the 1970 series ‘The Black Film’ recounts how the museum encouraged intercultural dialogue in the wake of Black-Jewish conflict
Jewish Museum
The Latest
-
Film & TV -
Fast Forward Federal building with murals by Jewish artists at risk of sale, demolition
The building’s namesake helped write the 1935 Social Security Act and later served in President Lyndon Johnson’s cabinet
-
Culture How a curator and a rabbi joined forces to keep a piece of Boston’s Jewish history alive
When Chelsea's Orange Street Synagogue shuttered in 1999, the fate of its elegant Torah ark hung in the balance
-
Art A revived Jewish Museum spotlights the story of Jewish endurance
The new core exhibition tells a global story of a people shaped by their traditions, and their neighbors
-
Culture Is Taylor Swift’s new album about the tortured lives of artists in communist Russia?
Facing reprobation from the leaders of Trump’s America, Swift makes reference to Marc Chagall and an earlier era of artistic suppression
-
Art Ben Shahn was a radical artist — why didn’t he want to be called a Jewish one?
A new retrospective at the Jewish Museum finds an artist whose Jewish identity was linked to a questioning crusade for justice
-
Art Why Queen Esther was the star in the age of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam
The figure from the Hebrew Bible was adopted as a figure of national self-determination in the Netherlands
-
Culture This ancient archeological marvel celebrates the defeat of King David — does it prove he existed?
The Tel Dan stele, currently on display at the Jewish Museum, is the oldest non-biblical mention of the House of David.
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward DNC finding: Biden’s Israel backing cost Harris votes for president
- 2
News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
- 3
News An audiobook narrator told Zionists to kill themselves. A popular romance novelist hired him anyway.
- 4
Opinion The dark message behind Tucker Carlson’s attempt to drum up drama in Israel
In Case You Missed It
-
Yiddish זכרונות פֿון אַן אונטערבאַן־פּאַסאַזשירMemories of a subway passenger
אויף דער אונטערבאַן האָב איך זיך אויסגעלערנט מײַנע ערשטע זאַצן אויף שפּאַניש.
-
Fast Forward Trump administration files lawsuit against UCLA, saying it failed to protect Jewish and Israeli employees
-
Sports Israeli bobsled captain on Olympics exit: ‘Holy endeavor’ slammed into rigid rule
-
Fast Forward The real Holocaust history behind ‘Papillon,’ the Oscar-nominated short about a star Jewish swimmer
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
