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Beit Hatfutsot Diaspora Museum
Members of the Reform movement and the Hebrew Union College confront ultra-Orthodox protesters and security guards while trying to enter the Western Wall plaza, in Jerusalem's Old City, November 16, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)
November 20, 2017, 8:47 pm
This is where Jewish dialogue will happen
An ambitious new center to be built at Beit Hatfutsot will be open to hosting any Jewish group
By Irina Nevzlin and Andrew H. Tisch
Bob Dylan performing at the Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, March 23, 1975. (Alvan Meyerowitz/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images via JTA)
March 22, 2017, 11:48 pm
Celebrate Bob Dylan at the Tel Aviv Diaspora museum
As part of Beit Hatfutsot’s ongoing exhibit, ‘Forever Young,’ fans can take part in a one-day symposium dedicated to the Nobel-winning balladeer
By Jessica Steinberg
A family visiting the Israel Museum's Shrine of the Book in 1965, when the iconic institution first opened. (Courtesy Israel Museum)
March 22, 2017, 11:53 am
From its first curator, a breathless, memorable account of the opening of the iconic Israel Museum
Karl Katz lived and breathed museums worldwide through a fruitful and distinguished career. But never to more abiding effect, as he shows in ‘The Exhibitionist,’ than in Jerusalem in the 1960s
By Asher Weill
A rendering of the Beit Hatfutsot-Museum of the Jewish People’s updated Synagogue Hall. (Courtesy: Beit Hatfutsot)
May 28, 2016, 8:01 am
At Museum of the Jewish People, an iconic exhibit breaks new ground
As Beit Hatfutsot unveils a massive $100 million overhaul, its beloved display of miniature synagogues gets a high-tech makeover
By Debra Kamin
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is presented with a diagram of his family tree during the inauguration ceremony of a new section of Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, May 24, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
May 25, 2016, 5:42 pm
Netanyahu reveals his roots go back to Spain
PM says DNA check on his brother shows some of family, thought to be of Eastern European extraction, goes back to Iberian Peninsula
By Stuart Winer
Bob Dylan, infrared, Woodstock, New York, 1968. (Elliott Landy/Press License, Landy-The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot/via JTA)
April 23, 2016, 5:31 am
Bob Dylan’s life and work examined in new Israeli exhibit
Museum of Jewish People at Beit Hatfusot celebrates one of the 20th century’s most influential Jews
By Debra Kamin
The late Amy Winehouse (photo credit: Festival Eurockéennes/Wikimedia Commons)
October 23, 2014, 3:37 pm
The Jewish life of Amy Winehouse
Beit Hatfutsot brings a London exhibit to Tel Aviv as part of its efforts to look at the wider Jewish experience
By Jessica Steinberg
Talia Byrnes, bottom right, poses with her great-grandmother and other family members. (photo credit: Photo by Nir Shaanani)
June 10, 2014, 5:40 pm
42 Jewish genealogists-in-training feted in Tel Aviv
The Museum of the Jewish People at Tel Aviv University celebrates the winners of its My Family Story project
By Debra Kamin
Alfred Dreyfus in the Villemarie Garden, Carpentras 1899-1900. (photo credti: Dreyfus Family Collection)
March 23, 2014, 12:40 pm
Alfred Dreyfus, through his love letters and sneakers
A new exhibit shows a different side of the victim/hero of the Dreyfus Affair — the private man his family remembers
By Debra Kamin
The courtyard of the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, as depicted in a detailed model at the Beit Hatfutsot museum in Tel Aviv (Courtesy of Beit Hatfutsot, Museum of the Jewish People)
March 5, 2014, 7:17 pm
$10 million in donations pledged to Diaspora museum
Two US- Jewish philanthropists give $5 million apiece toward synagogue relics and an interactive program for kids at Beit Hatfutsot
By JTA
Father Patrick Desbois (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
August 11, 2013, 4:25 am
Exposing a hidden Shoah, one mass grave at a time
When Father Patrick Desbois is not advising the Church on Jews, he is researching the tragic end of Eastern European communities
By Elhanan Miller
Gianni Mizrahi, 11, from San Diego, CA, poses with his first-place winning display for 'My Family Story,' a competition held by the Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)
June 22, 2013, 6:28 am
Grade-schoolers tell family tales at Beit Hatfutsot
A competition at Tel Aviv’s Museum of the Jewish People proves eye-opening as kids from all over talk about themselves and their families
By Leeor Bronis
The courtyard of the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, as depicted in a detailed model at the Beit Hatfutsot museum in Tel Aviv (Courtesy of Beit Hatfutsot, Museum of the Jewish People)
October 16, 2012, 4:28 pm
Amid Aleppo violence, fate unknown for one of Judaism’s greatest buildings
No information has yet emerged about the condition of the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, once the Jewish world’s oldest functioning house of prayer
By Matti Friedman
Yair Lapid addresses supporters Tuesday at the first political rally for his newly formed Yesh Atid (There is a future) party (photo credit: screenshot courtesy Channel 2)
May 1, 2012, 7:49 pm
Lapid, at first political rally, tells Haredim ‘I don’t hate you, but you must do national service’
Ex-news anchor says middle class can’t finance ultra-Orthodox any more, and current parties can’t be trusted to change things
By Shira Rubin
Items are seen on display in the 'Operation Finale' exhibit, revealing the story behind the Mossad spy agency's most legendary operation ever, the daring 1960 capture of the Nazi mastermind (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)
February 8, 2012, 11:16 am
Mossad opens archives on Eichmann capture
The ‘Operation Finale’ exhibit, opening this week in Tel Aviv, reveals new details of a legendary operation
By Aron Heller
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