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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 430

monuments

The Letters of Light Sculpture Garden at the new Israel National Library. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
May 18, 2024, 7:32 am
See Jerusalem’s beautiful art parks, where (almost) no graven images can be found
The Holy City has long had a de facto ban on statues in the human form, as per the second of the Ten Commandments, but that doesn’t mean sculptures are completely off the menu
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
An aerial view of the Tel Shimron excavation in northern Israel during the 2023 season. (Courtesy Eyecon)
August 17, 2023, 10:22 am
In northern Israel, massive 3,800-year-old monument stuns and stumps archaeologists
The size of an Olympic swimming pool, with vaulted ceilings that raise the topographical height of Tel Shimron by 5 meters, the delicate mud brick structure was likely barely used
By Melanie Lidman
Workers clean graffiti from a statue of Belgium's King Leopold II in Brussels on June 11, 2020, that was targeted by protesters during a Black Lives Matter demonstration (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
June 12, 2020, 12:06 pm
Historical figures face reckoning around the globe after Floyd death
Protests and vandalism have taken place in cities from Boston and New York to Paris, Oxford and Brussels, in an intense reexamination of centuries of racial injustice
By Sarah Rankin and David Crary
Observers placing daffodils at the grave of Marek Edelman, a commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in Warsaw's Jewish cemetery. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
January 21, 2018, 4:23 pm
Underground remains of Warsaw ghetto in line for protected status
Protection would require archaeological supervision during all earthworks in area, recording of finds
By JTA
New York City's historical Canyon of Heroes will keep the plaque honoring Vichy chief of state Henri Philippe Petain, who rounded up 10,000 Jews and turned them over to Hitler. (Danielle Ziri/Times of Israel)
January 15, 2018, 3:52 pm
NYC monument honoring Nazi collaborator to remain in place
Plaque dedicated to Henri Philippe Petain, who handed 10,000 Jews over to Hitler, will continue to be a part of lower Broadway’s ‘Canyon of Heroes’
By Danielle Ziri
A picture taken on December 18, 2017 shows Israelis visiting the National Memorial Hall for Israel's Fallen next to the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, which contains the names of every man and woman who died during their military or security service since 1860. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
January 11, 2018, 8:54 am
Mount Herzl memorial to fallen, an architectural gem, up for top design prize
Built of ‘stone, concrete and light,’ site meant to give space for grief and educating public, reflecting a shift in commemoration from the collective to the personal
By Jonah Mandel
The Jewish cemetery in the Polish town of Chrzanow. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
November 27, 2017, 5:53 pm
Landowner asks Polish town to remove monument to Jews killed by Nazis
Chrzanow town council discusses alternatives in case memorial removed, including installing plaque at site
By JTA
Stephen M. Flatow
November 6, 2017, 3:40 pm
Stephen M. Flatow
A slap in America’s face
There’s a new statue honoring Saddam Hussein in the Palestinian Authority city of Qalqilya
Erica Brown
October 6, 2017, 10:06 am
Erica Brown
A monumental problem
How to redirect the evil inclination for idol worship that still dances among us
Illustrative image of memorial to Confederate soldiers outside Bastrop County, TX, Courthouse. (CC BY-SA Billy Hathorn, Wikimedia commons)
September 30, 2017, 9:23 pm
Amid outcry over Confederate markers, new ones are going up
Supporters of new monuments reject criticism they are racist, say they are meant to preserve their history
By JEFF MARTIN and brynn anderson
Steven Fine
August 29, 2017, 10:15 am
Steven Fine
A statue is never just a statue
From Rome to Virginia, efforts to shift the scenery have tried to transform how society relates to its places of memory
Cubans pay homage to the late leader Fidel Castro during the last ceremony before his burial in Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of his revolution, on December 3, 2016. (AFP/Pedro Pardo)
December 4, 2016, 6:40 am
Cuba bans monuments named after Fidel Castro
President says his brother ‘rejected any manifestation of cult of personality,’ did not want his name or likeness used for tributes
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and Michael Weissenstein
The Black Arrow Heritage Site (Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 28, 2015, 8:36 am
Listen to the past, from the Golan to the Negev
Monuments to heroes, a lone oak with resonant history, the thriving Dead Sea Works and more — a selection of visits amplified by free audio guides
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
The work of Polish-Jewish artist Agnieszka Kurant will be featured this summer at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. (Janek Zamoyski/JTA)
June 6, 2015, 3:41 am
Guggenheim hosts Polish-Jewish artist’s visual ode to handwriting
Growing up in communist Poland, Agnieszka Kurant only learned as a teen that her maternal grandparents were Jewish, and Holocaust survivors
By Lucy Blatter
A suspect from the village of Deir al-Assad was arrested on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in connection for having sexual relations at a memorial for fallen IDF soldiers in the northern city of Carmiel. (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)
May 14, 2015, 9:12 pm
Monument lovemaker professes innocence
Man says he did not realize that having sex on a war memorial would offend, was only looking for privacy
By ToI Staff
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