Judaica

What I learned about American Jews while collecting Judaica for LA fire victims

Over 5,000 new and used Judaica items were distributed to more than 400 Jews affected by the Palisades and Eaton fires.

 Items donated to a Judaica drive staged for  Los Angeles fire victims included shofars, seder plates and mezuzahs.
 Twenty-sided dreidels created by David Zvi Kalman will become more expensive to import under the Trump administration's tariffs program.

I operate a small Judaica business. Trump’s tariffs will squelch Jewish innovation - opinion

 Sotheby's is auctioning what it says is the earliest known kiddush cup.

Sotheby’s to auction earliest known kiddush cup

 Hazorfim - Passover plate, the Linia collection, NIS 574

An unforgettable holiday table: The Passover 2025 collection by Hazorfim


National Library of Israel hosts International Judaica Curators Conference

This past week, 70 professional curators of Judaica collections from many different countries convened at the library for a three-day intensive learning experience led by professionals.

 THE NEW reading room of the National Library of Israel.

Food Appeal acquires Art Judaica

Cookware manufacturer Food Appeal purchases 100% of Art Judaica for NIS 40 million, marking its first acquisition since Leumi Partners' investment.


Hebrew pocket watch, frozen in time of Titanic wreck, headed for auction

Kantor paid £26 — worth about $3,100 today — for ticket No. 244367 on the Titanic, which they boarded on April 10, 1912, in Southampton, England.

A pocket watch featuring Hebrew letters that belonged to a Jewish Russian immigrant who died aboard the Titanic

Yiddish book center unveils new core exhibit

How do you tell the story of a language without a country, and of a culture that lost a majority of its purveyors in a little over a decade of madness?

A copy of Say It In Yiddish.

This rabbi hopes to explain Judaism to millions with new website

The Jewish Tradition website is based on the content of a book with the same name, written by Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, head of the Har Bracha Yeshiva.

 Har Bracha Yeshiva

Rabbi Kanievsky's pants taken off of auction after media queries

A US auctioneer wanted to sell pants Rabbi Haim Kanievsky wore "for a long time" but took it down after media queries. Some buyers demand it be put back up.

 RABBI CHAIM KANIEVSKY in his humble Bnei Brak home, June 2021.

Meet 10 Anglo Israeli women making new Judaica

Meet 10 Anglo women whose creative expression is breathing new life into the world of Judaic art. 

 RONNIT BARZEL’S ‘Blessings for the Shabbat Candles’

A Book of Psalms saved a victim's life in Jerusalem terror attack

A shard of debris hit the back cover of a book of psalms, penetrating nearly all the way through eventually protecting the victim from further harm.

 The book of psalms the victim had with him at the time prevented a shard of debris from piercing his body.

Having trouble coming up with holiday gifts? Here are some ideas

Rosh Hashanah is the holiday of gifts, especially for those who are being hosted for the holiday and don't want to come empty-handed. So here are some options: some more and some less conventional.

 Woman smells scented candle (Illustrative)

Jerusalem's distinguished guests: The collector, his artist inspiration

California collector Irvin Ungar has arrived in Israel and will be giving free lectures on his "friend," Polish Jewish artist Arthur Szyk.

 ARTHUR SZYK, ‘Arsenal of Democracy,’ New York, 1942: The artist saw himself as a ‘soldier in art.’