The Israel Museum unveils a restored mahzor from 1331
| 7:00 AM Sep 17, 2009
Central to the Days of Awe in modern times is the experience of walking into the synagogue to find tall stacks of High Holiday prayer books, or mahzorim.
Things were not always thus. For centuries, Jewish prayer was an oral tradition, said from memory. Even as authoritative liturgies were codified, most didn’t have access to texts. ...
The diverse work of four Israeli jewelers
| 3:28 PM Jun 11, 2008
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Powerful stories and symbols are on display in an exhibit of some 170 works of contemporary Israeli jewelry, at the Newark Museum through June 25. Pearly seashell brooches shaped like fighter planes commemorate a jeweler’s husband killed in a 1956 war; a gold necklace’s links are wrapped ...
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