From the ashes, a forgotten mural — and a new mystery for a Pasadena synagogue
Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center congregants say it depicts Jews wandering the desert. For some, the symbolism is uncanny.
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The European Jewish Congress had denounced the mural, meant as a statement against the Gaza war, as “a gross distortion of history.”
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Art In London, Jewish history is larger than life in a new mural
Leon Fenster’s 9-story tableau features Freud, the golem and Benjamin Disraeli
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Yiddish World This Boston synagogue looks like a New England church but murals reveal its Jewish identity
The hundred-year-old Vilna Shul is one of a handful that has retained its folk art-painted walls
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News A facelift at 40 for a beloved mural of Chicago Jewish life
If you had to stand outside through 40 years of Chicago winters, you wouldn’t look so good either. That’s why a beloved piece of Chicago public art, the Chicago Jewish Mural, just underwent a major, much-needed renovation. Four decades ago, artists, friends and activists, Cynthia Weiss and Miriam Socoloff, created a glass mosaic mural that…
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An iconic mural of the rapper Notorious B.I.G. will stay on a Bedford-Stuyvesant wall following a reversal by the building owner, Solomon Berkowitz, dnainfo reports. The mural is a Brooklyn landmark, which neighborhood activists have sought to preserve. Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace, lived in Bed-Stuy, and is closely associated with the neighborhood. He was…
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News Image of ‘Global Village’ Will Replace Landmark Lower East Side Jewish Mural
The real estate developers who painted over a historic Jewish Lower East Side mural now say they will commission a new one — though they don’t know where it will be painted, or when. And it won’t feature Jews. The plans for a new mural, reported by dnainfo, come months after the developers destroyed the…
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Fast Forward Lower East Side Developer Paints Over 43-Year-Old Jewish Mural Paying Tribute to Forward
A Lower East Side real estate developer abruptly painted over a 43-year-old Jewish heritage mural Monday — sparking outrage among neighborhood residents and one of the artists who created it nearly a half century ago. Sara Krivisky was a teenager when she helped paint the mural, which features themes including the Holocaust, immigration, sweatshops —…
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