Tag: Yeshiva University Museum

The Yeshiva University Museum in New York is currently hosting an exhibit on Maimonides, featuring rare artifacts such as a Mishneh Torah signed by Maimonides himself and the 11th-century Torah Ark door from the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo.
In this episode of Unorthodox, recorded live from Baltimore at the 2023 Conservative/Masorti Shabbaton & Convening, the hosts feature a segment for Hanukkah called Beautifully Jewish with guests including designer Jonathan Adler, Gabriel Goldstein from Yeshiva University Museum, and a visit to Ahuva Gottdeiner of Homegrown Kosher in Monsey, NY.
"Beautifully Jewish: Ep. 378" is a new series on Unorthodox hosted by Stephanie Butnick and Tanya Singer, focusing on Jewish material culture and ritual objects that enrich Jewish identity and observance.
This poem by Cynthia Ozick tells the story of how a gnat tormented the Roman emperor Titus, who destroyed the Temple and brought sorrow to Jerusalem.
"Are Clothes Modern?" was an exhibition organized by architect Bernard Rudofsky in 1944 at New York's Museum of Modern Art to critique contemporary mass-produced clothing as impractical and visually unappealing.
The Jewish Review of Books recently held its 2nd annual conference at Yeshiva University Museum, featuring engaging discussions between prominent readers and writers like Eliot Cohen, Shai Held, Dara Horn, Meir Soloveichik, and others.
"16mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland" is an exhibit at the Yeshiva University Museum showcasing films taken by American visitors to Poland before World War II.