Jewish Museum

1,000 teens learn about Portugal's expulsion and genocide of Jews

A thousand teenagers mark the Portuguese Edict of Expulsion in visit to the Jewish Museum of Porto.

Oklahoma Jewish museum holds funeral for Holocaust victims

A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years.

San Francisco: Jewish museum to close next month

With visitors and donations down, San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum to shutter at least temporarily.

Baltimore police arrest suspect in arson at Jewish museum

Baltimore Police officers arrest 66-year-old man in connection with an arson attack outside the Jewish Museum of Maryland earlier this month.

Former Israel Museum head takes position at NY Jewish Museum

New York’s Jewish Museum taps former Israel Museum head James Snyder as its next director.

US museums to display 'rimonim' made by 18th-century silversmith

A pioneering 18th-century Sephardic silversmith’s Torah decorations to be displayed in US museums for first time.

London Jewish Museum to close while seeking new location

London Jewish Museum to close indefinitely and look for new location.

Hispanic Jewish Foundation receives building for historic museum

Fundación HispanoJudía (FHJ) receives public tender from Madrid Metro for state-of-the-art Hispanic Jewish Museum.

10th century nearly complete Bible sells for $38.1 million

Oldest nearly complete Bible bought by Jewish museum in record auction.

Dominican Republic:

A museum could tell the story of Holocaust refugees

The Dominican Republic was a haven for Jews fleeing the Nazis. A museum project could tell that story.

A Moroccan Jewish museum in Manhattan: The ambitious dream

The Manhattan Sephardic Congregation knows how to build bridges. The museum is one of these. A conversation with Rabbi Benchimol.

San Francisco Jewish museum sparks controversy with PLO flag

A Jewish museum exhibit features the Palestinian Authority flag. Some visitors wonder if it belongs.

NY’s Jewish Museum accused of sanitizing filmmaker’s WWII record

Yale historian accuses the Jewish Museum in New York of ignoring Lithuanian-born artist's ties to pro-Nazi propaganda.

Portuguese Jewish museum builds 'Antisemite room'

Jewish museum of Oporto announces dedicated exhibit highlighting issue of antisemitism.

Workers push to unionize at the Jewish Museum in New York

Employees at NY Jewish Museum launch unionization drive joining other cultural institutions that have been destabilized by the pandemic.

Mantua to get Jewish museum on burial site of Kabbalist masters

Compromise reached with Orthodox leaders paving way for Jewish museum to be build on burial site of 17th century Kabbalist masters.

Brazilian synagogue gets new life as Jewish museum

New São Paulo museum looks to educate non-Jews on ‘what it means’ to be a Brazilian Jew.

Torah scroll stolen by the Nazis is returned to Prague

Torah scroll the Nazis stole for their post-Holocaust ‘Jewish museum’ returns to service in Prague.

Alaska Jewish community rallies after anti-Semitic incidents

Jewish community in Anchorage holds event to combat anti-Semitic vandalism of Jewish Museum and rise of anti-Semitism in Alaska.

Oporto museum unveils new exhibit on historic Operation Entebbe

In initiative to bring young Jews closer to Israel, the Jewish Museum of Oporto opens permanent exhibit on historic Operation Entebbe.

Stickers with swastikas placed on Jewish Museum in Alaska

Man caught on security camera plastering Nazi stickers on Jewish museum in Anchorage.

Tucson: Woman who served as leader of Jewish museum resigns

First Jew of color to lead an American Jewish museum resigns, citing gender and racial discrimination.

Russian-Jewish billionaire to chair board of Moscow museum

‘Pride exists to be part of something Jewish’: Russian billionaire to head Moscow museum’s board.

NYC’s Jewish Museum to reopen Oct. 1 following 6-month closure

Visits to Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue to be free through end of December as Museum ends coronavirus closure.

Two Jewish museums plan to reopen in May

Jewish museums in Munich and Vienna announce plans to reopen this month, after nearly two months of closure.

Poland: Jewish museum leader steps down

Polish Jewish history museum chooses new director, ending controversy.

'Shocking' to hear museum director accused of anti-Semitism

45 Jewish scholars sign unprecedented letter supporting Berlin Jewish Museum director who resigned under pressure.

Poland: No politics in not renewing Jewish museum head's tenure

Petition signed by several thousand claims decision not to renew director's contract is "clearly political."

Israel calls on Germany to end funding of Jewish museum

Citing anti-Israel display, Israel calls on Germany to nix funding of Jewish museum, along with anti-Israel groups.

National Jewish museum opens in Italy

Italy turns former prison complex into museum on local Jewish history, showcases inaugural exhibit.

ISIS reportedly threatens Jewish NY museum

Museum of Jewish Heritage threatened over hosting of movie depicting Kurdish soldiers fighting ISIS

Jewish Museum poster defaced in New York subway station

Swastikas drawn on a poster in a Manhattan subway station advertising an exhibit at New York's Jewish Museum.

Oregon Jewish Museum gets permanent home

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will have a new and permanent home next year.

Italy grants $29M to enable completion of national Jewish museum

Museum under construction for over a decade finally to be finished.

Polish Jewry museum wins European Museum of the Year Award

Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw wins the European Museum of the Year Award.

Museum Lets You Take a Tour of the Roman Ghetto

New museum exhibit allows visitors to experience the anti-Semitic confinement of the Jewish ghetto in 3D reconstructed maps.

Brussels Jewish Museum Shooter to Appeal Extradition

Nemmouche previously told the court he was not opposed to his transfer to Belgium as long as he is not sent to a third country.

Cancelled

NY Jewish Museum Cancels Lecture by Israel Boycott Advocate

Decision to invite Judith Butler, noted academic and extreme anti-Israel activist, sparked controversy and anger.

Drawings from Nazi Camp Displayed at Berlin Museum

Secret drawings and sketches that a Czech artist produced and kept hidden from his Nazi captors go on display at the Jewish Museum.