Museums

Response · May 13, 2019
The Jewish Museum’s Discomfort with Religion
By Tom L. Freudenheim
The museum's latest core exhibition reveals a distance from Judaism indistinguishable from disregard, embarrassment, and disdain.
Monthly Essay · May 6, 2019
The Wreck of the Jewish Museum
By Menachem Wecker
From its priceless collection of artworks, a foremost cultural institution has harvested mainly inferior examples for display, while submerging Jewish identity in a sea of “universal values.”
Monthly Essay · January 2, 2018
Who’s Afraid of the Museum of the Bible?
By Diana Muir Appelbaum
Critics accuse it of threatening the separation of church and state; in truth, Washington's new museum makes an invaluable contribution to American (and Jewish) cultural literacy.