When the museum first opened, it was criticized for omitting Hollywood’s Jewish pioneers. Now it is under fire for what its new exhibit says about them.
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Students are bringing up antisemitic tropes and asking survivors and docents: What is Palestine? Is there a genocide in Gaza?
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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Clash with Police Amid Gaza Conflict
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The Black Heritage Society, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Experience, and Washington State Jewish Historical Society issued statement that the exhibit will reopen at the WLM later this month.
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New exhibit about Jewish history of the modern entertainment industry will be made permanent after museum faced blowback for omitting Jews' role when it first opened last year.
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The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle temporarily closed after employees criticized an exhibition, saying it wrongly conflated anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
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Anti-Israel — and increasingly antisemitic — sentiments have coursed through the literary world since the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7.
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This is the third antisemitic act directed at The Weitzman since the war began on Oct. 7.
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Historians and librarians collect documents, artifacts and even WhatsApp messages to preserve the historic events.
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Seven artists have withdrawn their accepted works from a Contemporary Jewish Museum exhibition over disagreements with the organization and its funders on their stance on Israel and Gaza.
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The home of boundary-pushing artists from around the world has been upended by debates about what can and can’t be said about Israel and the war.
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The museum would be the Smithsonian’s first focused on Jewish Americans
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Demonstrators led a silent performance and dispersed fabric poppy petals inscribed with the names of Palestinians killed by Israel.
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A pro-Palestinian group slashed and spray-painted a century-old portrait of the author of the Balfour Declaration at the University of Cambridge in England.
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Demonstrators swarmed the Federation CJA and Holocaust Museum building to protest event featuring Israeli speakers.
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The Capital Jewish Museum, which opened last summer, asks visitors to think about their own place in history. A new exhibit about Oct. 7 makes that task even more urgent
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Aaron Lansky spent a lifetime building the Yiddish Book Center, one of the country’s leading Jewish cultural institutions. He’s ready to hand over the reins.
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Seismic world events in Ukraine and the Middle East draw Zoya Cherkassky’s highly personal responses. “There was nothing to be ironic about,” she said.
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