Support the arts, not antisemitism Florida’s new law ensuring that taxpayers will no longer subsidize hate or discrimination must serve as a model for other states. George Lindemann July 2, 2025
Third-century queen, target of Syrian government, may have converted to Judaism “The ancient sources implying Queen Zenobia converted to Judaism are possibly accurate,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of University of Warsaw, told JNS. Menachem Wecker June 30, 2025
New bill aims to make it easier for survivors, heirs to recover Nazi-looted art “The artwork wrongfully ripped from Jewish hands during the Holocaust bears witness to a chapter in history when evil persisted,” Sen. John Cornyn said. JNS Staff May 28, 2025
Eight new exhibits mark Israel Museum’s 60th anniversary The exhibits reflect the museum's vision: "Connecting our ancient history and traditions with local contemporary art," says director Suzanne Landau. Judy Lash Balint May 15, 2025
Decades after his death, Ben-Zion’s relatively unknown Jewish art is timely, experts say “It’s too soon to know whether he just had a brief moment or the beginning of a longer moment,” the curator and scholar Ori Soltes told JNS. Anna Rahmanan and Menachem Wecker May 8, 2025
Mothers honor fallen children in emotional art exhibition Titled “When words fail you,” nine bereaved women participated in the opening at the Multidisciplinary Center in Modi'in. Rolene Marks April 15, 2025
Defaced Holocaust artwork finds new home in Rome museum "The mural must live because it was vandalized, and so it will live, and everything related to memory and what I have personally experienced must live," said 93-year-old Holocaust Survivor, the subject of the piece. JNS Staff April 9, 2025
Supreme Court orders reconsideration in case of Nazi-looted painting held by Spanish museum “There has never been a dispute that the Cassirer family was the rightful owner,” insist lawyers for the family, whose matriarch surrendered the painting to escape Nazi Germany. Mike Wagenheim March 31, 2025
Can great art transcend political disgrace? “Last Call”—a new play about an alleged late-life meeting between Leonard Bernstein and ex-Nazi Herbert von Karajan—attempts to answer a difficult question. Jonathan S. Tobin March 28, 2025
