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A picture shows the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in the Libyan capital Tripoli on September 28, 2011. (Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images)

Libya’s Jewish graveyards were destroyed. They are being rebuilt online.

David Gerbi for years has tried to salvage what’s left of his community’s graveyards in Tripoli and Benghazi. Now that they’re destroyed, he plans to rebuild them online.

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Michael Douglas introduces special artifacts at Museum of the Jewish People

The first two featured artifacts are a 16th-century Sephardic Book of Esther scroll and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer’s typewriter.

An exhibit in South Africa recalls the exodus of Ethiopian Jews to Israel

The South African Jewish Museum reminds schoolchildren that Jews are not homogenously white, Ashkenazi or middle class.

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Israel’s Beit Hatfutsot museum gets serious about Jewish humor

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Koret Foundation gives $10 million to Tel Aviv’s Museum of the Jewish People

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Jewish superheroes — fully human and totally inspiring

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Netanyahu inaugurates new wing at Museum of the Jewish People

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Telling the Jewish story in a museum’s halls — and its school without walls

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At Museum of the Jewish People, an iconic exhibit of miniature synagogues breaks new ground

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