Peoplehood and Jewish Culture

After establishing a Jewish Peoplehood Hub last November , the Jewish Agency now has explicitly embraced the concept of Jewish Peoplehood as its top priority. The question is, just what does peoplehood mean? One answer comes from»

Merry Purim

Jewish Review of Books Launched With Foundation Funding

from The Jewish Week:

Can New Journal Find Its Niche?

If you’re an intellectually curious reader who craves sophisticated, accessible writing on Jewish books and ideas, there’s no shortage of places for you to look. There are well-established magazines like»

The Future Lies Ahead

by Mordechai Shushan

It’s time to break down barriers. In our richly diverse and vibrant community, we need to cross borders and build bridges, and empower new voices. Celebrating our rich heritage, we must lower barriers to understanding, and in»

Jewish Culture in a Crossover World

Words like “crossover,” “fluidity,” and “hybrid” kept coming up during a session at the annual conference of the Council of American Jewish Museums a couple of weeks ago. The panelists, drawing on both research and experience, all saw»

Digital Judaica Project To Provide Multilingual Access to Collections

Ten institutions in London, Frankfurt, Athens, Bologna, Budapest, Paris, Rome and Warsaw join forces to offer worldwide access to the treasures of European Jewish culture.

Judaica Europeana, a ground-breaking digital project has been awarded a major grant by»

Jewish Arts and Their Audiences

Rabbi Irwin Kula, the mediagenic head of CLAL, inaugurated last week’s Schmooze conference on Jewish arts and culture with what he called a “thought experiment.” Bypassing a ritual obeisance to the current renaissance in Jewish culture»

Six Points Fellowship Application Available

Six Points Fellowship is looking for artists for the next round of the Six Points Fellowship.

They are looking for nine talented artists (ages 22-38 and based in NYC) to open up new conversations in the worlds of contemporary culture»

Culture, Media and the Jewish Future

It’s no accident that the words “communicate” and “community” come from the same root, which means “to share.” Culture, which grows from the collective experience of a group, needs to be communicated in order to become common property.

Strikingly, the»

The Financial Sustainability of Holocaust Museums

Local Holocaust Museums Grow Amid Worries About Future
‘The Generation That Gives Money Is Moving On”

by Gal Beckerman

The numbers speak for themselves: There are now 16 Holocaust museums in the United States, from»

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