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Jewish artistsThe Jewish renaissance of MargateLianne Kolirin meets the Yiddishe artists who have set up home in the English coastal town dubbed Hackney-on-SeaBy Lianne Kolirin 7 min read
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ArtThe art of identity: four Jewish artists reflect on how their work has changed since October 7By Elisa Bray12 min read
Limmud Festival 2025How to make a golem? Take a class at LimmudRabbi Shawna and Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik have developed their own creative way to explore Jewish traditionBy Simon Rocker4 min read
ArtFour Figures Four Eggs at Woolwich Works: Inam Zimbalista’s meditation on the mundaneThe Israeli artist’s one-day exhibition offers a quiet reflection on human relationships and the everydayBy Jonathan Sacerdoti3 min read
ArtGustav Klimt portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold for £180m at Sotheby’sOil painting of Austrian-Jewish society figure fetches near-record price at New York auction of Lauder billionaire collectionBy Anthea Gerrie1 min read
For sale: the hidden collection of Dutch Masters owned by property mogul who fled HitlerWhen Lester Weindling died last year aged 96, it emerged he had kept a very big secretBy Jenni Frazer3 min read||November 12, 2025 15:10
Jewish family sues NYC’s Met Museum over ‘secretly trafficked’ Nazi-looted van GoghThe oil painting, called ‘Olive Picking’, was left behind when the Stern family fled Germany in the 1930sBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read||October 29, 2025 17:16
By Danny DriverSilencing music: the dangerous rise of anti-Israel boycotts in the artsGhent Festival cancelled Munich Philharmonic Orchestra because of its Israeli conductor Lahav Shani. This morally bankrupt act does nothing to save a single Palestinian or bring a hostage home3 min read||September 15, 2025 14:10
The art collector who was ‘the essence of a good Jew’Manny Davidson’s extraordinary collection of more than 500 objects of art, sculpture and furniture is coming up for saleBy Jenni Frazer4 min read||July 31, 2025 14:17
Royal Academy artwork suggests Israeli pilots are morally inferior to HamasA sketch of an Israeli air force pilot and a Hamas fighter side by side singles out the IAF for criticismBy Daniel Ben-David3 min read||July 8, 2025 09:54
In Haifa, artists document the war on the city’s wallsHow the northern Israeli city has turned to graffiti to express its pain in the wake of October 7By Josh Kaplan2 min read||April 25, 2025 10:18
By David HirshWhat the removal of a Netanyahu Hitler painting can tell us about the art worldModern antisemitism is just an extension of how art is used as propaganda2 min read||March 13, 2025 16:46
Painting comparing Netanyahu to Hitler removed from Saatchi art fair amid outrageThe painting is ‘deeply offensive to the memory of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust’, one visitor saidBy Imogen Garfinkel3 min read||March 7, 2025 16:26