The search for the biblical blue dye is now told in a new visitors center in Israel
Murex trunculus shells and coins depicting them from the Roman period. Photo courtesy of Ptil...
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Category: Museums & Exhibits
Veterans, others to note the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp
Dachau Concentration Camp entrance on July 30, 2015. Photo courtesy of pxhidalgo. The region’s...
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Rare 17th-century Esther Scroll is returned to Ferrara, Italy for Purim exhibition
CAPTION:The coronation of Esther from the Moshe ben Avraham Pescarolo Esther Scroll, Ferrara,...
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Bill revisited to designate Holocaust refugee home in NY state as national park
Women and children register for the Fort Ontario Refugee Camp in Oswego, N.Y., August 1944. Photo...
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Bronze Age vessel is back on display at the Hecht Museum in Haifa.
The jug (circled) before being broken. Photo courtesy of Hecht Museum. A 3,500-year-old jug at the...
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How Jewish is MAD?
With what seems like the “usual gang of idiots” running for president, it’s a relief to focus on...
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Norman Rockwell Museum Goes MAD in Stockbridge!
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge,...
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Astronaut Ilan Ramon’s space diary arrives at the National Library of Israel
A photo of Ilan Ramon is show here with an enlarged photo of a page from the diary. JERUSALEM–The...
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Judaica collector gives some pointers to the University of Virginia
Torah pointer (yad) by Hester Bateman (1781). Barr Foundation collection. Photo courtesy of the...
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Perlow Series: Rabbi Linda Motzkin to lead “Inscribing the Sacred: Creating Torah and Art”
Rabbi Linda Motzkin at her desk working at her calligraphy. Photo courtesy of Skidmore College....
Read MoreMiSci vs. Buffalo Bills — who gets the money!?
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New Jewish museum in D.C.
(JNS) The Capital Jewish Museum opened earlier in June in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of...
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