Jewish museum of munich

Munich citizens form human chain around synagogue to protect from pro-Palestine rally

The pro-Palestine rally was given permission to travel right past the main synagogue in the city, posing a threat to the Jewish community.

JULY 22, 2025|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Protestors take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Berlin, April 6, 2024.

'A wake-up call': Israel's consulate in Munich attacked

"It is important that this is seen as a wake-up call for the German authorities about where antisemitism and hatred of Israel are leading."

MAY 22, 2024|ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL

Then the director of the Israel Museum, James Snyder appears at the Rockefeller Museum during a press conference about thirty years of archaeological excavations in Ashkelon which culminated in the discovery of the first Philistine cemetery ever found in Jerusalem, Israel, July 10, 2016.

New York’s Jewish Museum taps former Israel Museum head James Snyder as its next director

“Running a museum today is harder than it’s ever been and James’s experience is a huge asset for us at this time,” Robert Pruzan, the museum’s board chairman, told the New York Times.

AUGUST 15, 2023|ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA

‘The Jerusalem Eruv’ (1996) by Parisian artist Sophie Calle, who collected stories by Jewish and Arab residents of Jerusalem on public spaces that they perceive as ‘private’ or ‘personal’

Say Shibboleth!

A Munich exhibition by an Israeli curator examines both visible and invisible borders

JULY 31, 2019|ByGUNDULA MADELEINE TEGTMEYER