Page 38 - Vilna News Today

Earlier this year, museums and galleries all over Brazil, such as the Museum of Art of São Paulo and the Modern Art Museum in Rio de Janeiro, celebrated the Modern Art Week.

From the cobblestone streets, a lesson in religious (and cultural) diversity

From the blog of Tomas D. Mojo at The Times of Israel

Like the letters I've read by Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, they expose vulnerabilities, often unwittingly, on the letter writer’s part.

After centuries of Tsarist and Soviet repression, the Putin era was a reversal of fortunes for Russian Jews, particularly for Chabad. But Russia's Ukraine war reveals the moral catastrophe of this cosy symbiosis between Putin and his Kremlin Hasidim

He leads his flock from a soaring, gilded cathedral built to celebrate Russia's victory over Napoleon, where week after week the powerful head of the Russian Orthodox Church is working to ensure that the faithful are all in on their country's invasion of Ukraine.

For Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian reads from his poem After the Survivors Are Gone.

Separated by geography and language, there's not much that might seem to connect India's five dwindling Jewish communities – except praying in Hebrew, and food.

The Forward's first issue was published 125 years ago. I came decades later. And a bunch of other things happened on April 22.

A new exhibition about Jonas Mekas was an opportunity to confront his wartime record. Instead, it tells a familiar story.