ANNOUNCEMENTS
Publications/Videos
Jewry Reflected, Refracted, and Recorded on Medals by Ira Rezak.
Be Fruitful! The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History. Edited by Warren Klein, Sharon Liberman Mintz and Joshua Teplitsky.
The Center for Jewish Art issued a report on their latest expedition to Vilnius, Lithuania to research Holocaust memorial monuments. https://cja.huji.ac.il/hmm/pics/reports/Holocaust_Memorial_Monuments_in_Vilnius_Report_2022.pdf
The expedition is part of the project to create a database on Holocaust Memorial Monuments (https://cja.huji.ac.il/hmm/browser.php?mode=main).
Also from The Center for Jewish Art, a new publication A Legacy Revealed: The Izmir Collection of Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles by Bracha Yaniv and Tamar Shadmi.
To celebrate Israel’s 75th birthday, David Matlow of Toronto, Canada selected 75 artifacts from his personal collection of Zionist and Herzl memorabilia and shared them in a new book, 75 Treasures: Celebrating Israel at Seventy-Five. Available for free download at https://herzlcollection.com/75-treasures
Shimon Iaikerson stars in several new videos about Hebrew Manuscripts, a project of Beit Avi Chai. Episode 1 (Handwritten Medieval Jewish Books): https://youtu.be/esyY9c3ou9k, Episode 2 (Rolled Books): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hz0FiO9_9M, Episode 3 (Handwritten Medieval Jewish Books): https://youtu.be/V9wLFpCDb8A
Exhibitions
The First Salute at Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. On view through April 2027.
Mothers, Prophets, Warriors: Women of the Bible & A Joyful Noise! Photographs by Lloyd Wolf at Heller Museum, HUC-JIR, NYC. On view through December 17, 2026.