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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.

By Marcy Oster June 24, 2020 12:29 pm

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.

March 12, 2019 2:09 pm

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Israel’s Beit Hatfutsot museum gets serious about Jewish humor

An exhibit highlights the breadth of Jewish joke-making, from the stories of Chelm to the heyday of "Seinfeld."

April 4, 2018 3:25 pm

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

January 18, 2017 1:01 pm

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Have WiFi? You can explore the story of the Jewish people anywhere you go

By Debra Kamin June 15, 2016 4:26 pm

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Jewish superheroes — fully human and totally inspiring

By Debra Kamin June 8, 2016 3:06 pm

Netanyahu inaugurates new wing at Museum of the Jewish People

May 25, 2016 5:11 pm

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

By Debra Kamin May 25, 2016 12:52 pm

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

By Debra Kamin May 24, 2016 4:42 pm

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A crowdfunding campaign to take Jewish music from the analog past to the digital future

By Debra Kamin April 18, 2016 2:50 pm

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beit hatfusot

Michael Douglas introduces special artifacts at Museum of the Jewish People

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

Israel’s Beit Hatfutsot museum gets serious about Jewish humor

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

Have WiFi? You can explore the story of the Jewish people anywhere you go

Jewish superheroes — fully human and totally inspiring

Netanyahu inaugurates new wing at Museum of the Jewish People

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

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

A crowdfunding campaign to take Jewish music from the analog past to the digital future

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