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Holy Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate
A showcase of rabbinic achievement, featuring 24 women who redefined Jewish leadership.

A showcase of rabbinic achievement, featuring 24 women who redefined Jewish leadership.
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Anti-Jewish Bias Is Spreading in Arts and Culture
It may be more subtle than a scrawled swastika or a torched synagogue, but anti-Jewish bias in that realm is nonetheless a growing phenomenon.

It may be more subtle than a scrawled swastika or a torched synagogue, but anti-Jewish bias in that realm is nonetheless a growing phenomenon.
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Black and Jewish Identities Converge in Art
A generation of Black Jewish women are using art—paintings, drawings, multimedia works and film—to share and explore their multiethnic perspectives.

A generation of Black Jewish women are using art—paintings, drawings, multimedia works and film—to share and explore their multiethnic perspectives.

Director Reginald Hudlin’s film is an important reminder of great collaborations between blacks and Jews in the civil rights movement.

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Revealing the Real Modigliani

by Elin Schoen Brockman

The great Italian artist’s fame has skyrocketed, and this elegant new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explains why.

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Jews Plus Bluegrass Equals Toe-Stompin’ Jewgrass

by Ruth Ellen Gruber

Musicians are blending their deep-seated Jewish identities with the distinctive harmonies and country twang of bluegrass.

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Artist Nissan Engel Gets Posthumous Promotion

by Amy Klein

Nissan Engel's mixed-media work embodies his aesthetic style, which he cultivated while living in both France and the United States after he left Israel in the 1950s.