Writing Contest Now Open Your writing could be selected to appear in the Center for Jewish History’s March 2012 custom issue with the Jewish Week, a publication that will reach some 85,000 people. To enter the contest, draw on your own experience and write a response to the following: “The themes from Jewish history combine the wide-ranging facts of creativity and courage, and of…
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by Zachary Levine, Assisant Curator and Jacob Wisse, Director, Yeshiva University Museum, one of five partners of the Center for Jewish History A series of new textiles, commissioned from New York-based artist Mark Podwal for Prague’s celebrated Altneuschul (Old-New Synagogue), is the focus of an exhibition at Yeshiva University Museum, Old and the New (November 27, 2011–January 15, 2012). The oldest continuously-active synagogue in…
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