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The Word at the Museum of the Bible leaves visitors speechless
Jacques Abramowicz looks at a sculpture of the Bible in the children’s section of theMuseum of the Bible.Photo by Dan Schere “It’s like Chuck E. Cheese and the Bible had a baby,” the guide told the...
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Leonard Bernstein’s faith on exhibit in ‘Power of Music’
Leonard BernsteinPhoto provided by the National Museum of American Jewish History PHILADELPHIA — If your sole association with the works of Leonard Bernstein is a 1970s-era Animal from The Muppets...
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A Renaissance man who wanted to do it all
Leonard Bernstein in 1970Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images From his birthplace in Boston to New York, Berlin, South Africa, China and Israel, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), the larger-than-life...
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Escape Artist
A Houdini film poster BALTIMORE — The joy and fascination museumgoers will feel when stepping into the bold, big-top experience of the Jewish Museum of Maryland’s new original exhibit, “Inescapable:...
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From stage to canvas: KISS frontman Paul Stanley brings art show to D.C.
Paul Stanley will appear at the Wentworth Gallery at Westfield Montgomery mall on Sept. 14 and the Wentworth Gallery at Tysons Galleria on Sept. 15.Photos courtesy of Wentworth Gallery You probably...
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The man who made Rube Goldberg a household name
An iconic Rube Goldberg cartoon used on a U.S. postal stamp. (Rube Goldberg Inc.) PHILADELPHIA — You can find cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s name in the dictionary. Merriam-Webster defines Rube Goldberg as...
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Bible museum the right fit for Jewish exhibitions director
Rena Opert is the temporary exhibits director at the Museum of the Bible. Photo by Jared Foretek. In some ways, Washington’s Museum of the Bible is a dramatic scene change for Rena Opert. She’s spent...
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At Jewish Museum, a Halloween attempt to summon Houdini’s spirit
Francis Menotti performs magic before the séance begins.Photo by Will Kirk BALTIMORE — Harry Houdini was buried alive three times. Once without a casket, under six feet of dirt, in an attempt that...
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Unlikely refuge
The Hongkou Ghetto in Shanghai.Photo courtesy of the Jewish Museum of Maryland A new exhibit coming to the Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore showcases the unlikely and undertold story of an East...
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Mixed race, collodion photography
In “An Exploration of Resilience and Resistance,” Kali Spitzer photographed indigenous and mixed race women and gender non-conforming people. At the age of 20, Kali Spitzer left her home in Victoria,...
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Asylum inmates and asylum seekers in Israeli photographer’s AU exhibit
Michal Heiman, Plate 34, My Self, 2013. Digitally manipulated readymade and stamp on a photograph by Dr. Hugh W. Diamond, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, London, 1855. Photo courtesy of Michal Heiman The...
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Jewish Museum creates history-themed board game
Scrap Yard: Innovators of Recycling board game. By Jesse Berman Calling all chess champions, Monopoly mavens, Boggle bosses, and titans of tic-tac-toe. The Jewish Museum of Maryland (JMM) has created...
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Sukkot, the pandemic and a lynching come together in new art installation
Adam McKinney’s installation at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is part of a new project that puts art in and outside closed Jewish museums for Sukkot. Photo courtesy of...
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‘Jews in Space’ exhibit lands at Jewish Museum of Maryland
Photo by David Stuck Get ready to take one small step to the Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore for its new exhibit,“Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit.”The exhibit is open to the public...
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Use your words with Ann Friedman
Ann Friedman in the library of Washington’s Planet Word museum.Photo by DuHon Photography Corrected Dec. 14, 10 a.m. Ann Friedman chooses her words carefully. She knows what they can do. God created...
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Jewish Military Museum to create Vietnam War exhibit
Marine in Vietnam with Magen David helmet, ca. 1968 (Photo courtesy of National Museum of American Jewish Military History) The Vietnam War is one of the longest military engagements in U.S. history,...
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This Jewish female artist from the comic book golden age was overlooked for...
Señorita Rio, one of Lily Renee’s many characters, fought Nazis. (Lily Renée Collection) By Karen Chernick Like the comic superheroes they invented, the Jewish creators of the characters often had...
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Filmmakers constructed a shtetl for a WWII film. Now they want to preserve it...
Russian / Polish shtetl or Jewish village circa 1916-17 Boys with their teacher outside a Heder, religious school for boys. (Photo by History & Art Images via Getty Images) In the woods of northern...
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Storytellers take D.C audience to confrontations with injustice
Retro microphone isolated on white background. picture / iStock / Getty Images Plus With just binders in their hands, a group of storytellers took viewers from their device screens to places like the...
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