Photographer: Ola Myrin, Sveriges museum om Förintelsen /SHM (CC BY). Exteriör, Sveriges museum om Förintelsen, Torsgatan 19 i Stockholm. On 21 June, the Swedish Holocaust Museum opened its doors for the first time in central Stockholm. The museum’s first exhibition, Seven lives, opened at the same time. The exhibition is about seven people who, against […]
The presentation of the exhibition “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York has been extended until August 30, 2020. During the first five months the exhibition was visited by 106,000 people including 34,000 students. “I don’t think that there is a more important exhibition presented in […]
Engravings of a seven-armed menorah (left) and a cross were carved thousands of years ago in a cave in southern Israel. Credit: Sa’ar Ganor, Israel Antiquities Authority A rare and intriguing discovery was revealed this weekend by hikers exploring a water cistern in the Judean Shephelah: on the walls of the cistern, which is hewn […]