Museums

The new Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum believes the past needs input...

  It’s home. It’s staying put. And the modest, 1876-era, red-brick building that began its existence as Adas Israel Congregation — which has been moved...

A very 2023 history of Jewish delis in America

There’s a lot of nostalgia to behold on a tour of “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” a historical view of Jewish delicatessens in America,...

Fall arts preview

This fall, Jewish cultural venues in the Washington area will showcase a little less Zoom and a lot more live programming. Producers are offering...

Storytellers take D.C audience to confrontations with injustice

With just binders in their hands, a group of storytellers took viewers from their device screens to places like the Argentine Dirty War and...

Filmmakers constructed a shtetl for a WWII film. Now they want to preserve it...

In the woods of northern Ukraine, construction workers have built an island in time: a shtetl. That’s the Yiddish word for the type of...

This Jewish female artist from the comic book golden age was overlooked for decades

  By Karen Chernick Like the comic superheroes they invented, the Jewish creators of the characters often had secret identities – at least different names. Superman...