Current Exhibitions

Envisioning the Sacred: Modern Art from the Collection

March 1–June 21, 2026

This exhibition features forty-nine prints, paintings, and drawings from the Museum’s permanent collection by twentieth and twenty-first-century artists working in a range of modernist styles—from figurative to abstract. Works by twenty-one artists explore stories and characters from the Bible, represent Jewish observances and traditions, or take inspiration from language and legend. Many of the artists express their Jewish identities and relationships to Jewish communal experience through their work. For some, mysticism and quests for spiritual connection are essential features of their art. Learn more >>

Image: Jacques Yankel (b. Paris, France, 1920–d. Labeaume, France, 2020), Torah I, detail, 1972. Gouache on paper, 25 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. Gift of Diana Weinstock Roberts, 15.02. © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. 

Tradition and Remembrance: Treasures of the Derfner Judaica Museum

Ongoing

With approximately two hundred and fifty objects, this exhibition drawn from the permanent collection explores the intersections of Jewish history and memory. The stories of objects used in traditional Jewish practice are interpreted in light of the role of memory in shaping both individual and communal identities. Among the featured objects in the exhibition are a silver filigree vase, ca. 1911, and an early copper alloy Hanukkah lamp, both from the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts founded in Jerusalem in 1906. Other objects come from near and far, including a set of eighteenth-century German Torah implements, a handsomely illuminated nineteenth-century Italian marriage contract, and a second- to fourth-century lamella amulet.  Learn more >>

Image: Zygmunt Menkes (b. Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv, Ukraine, 1896–d. Bronx, New York, 1986), Cohanim Blessing, detail, ca. 1940s. Oil on canvas, 30 x 22 1/2 in. Gift of Erica and Ludwig Jesselson and Family in Memory of Leo Forchheimer, HHAR 1007.