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  2. By contrast:

    Artist and curator Josef Palermo has lived in Washington for nearly two decades, but he wasn’t aware that the Kennedy Center had an Israeli lounge until he joined the venerable cultural institution as its curator of visual arts and special programming this summer.

    The Israeli Lounge has been underutilized in recent decades and largely unknown, even among the many Jewish patrons of the arts at the Kennedy Center. Yitzhak Rabin, then Israel’s ambassador to the United States, dedicated the lounge — a small room designed to visually tell the history of Jewish and Israeli music — as Israel’s gift to the United States in 1971, when the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors alongside the Potomac River.

    Now, in the wake of Trump’s takeover of the institution, the walls of the Israeli Lounge are covered with paintings by American-Israeli artist Marc Provisor as part of a special monthlong exhibit commemorating the Oct. 7 attacks.

    Provisor’s son survived the Nova music festival, and the paintings are meant to bear witness to the brutality of what happened there.

    The exhibit marks the beginning of what Kennedy Center leaders say is an institutional commitment to combating antisemitism through the arts, first and foremost by spotlighting the works and contributions of Jewish artists.

    “This will not be the last time that we see some work related to antisemitism, or just celebrating the Jewish American community experience,” Palermo, who curated the Oct. 7 exhibit, told Jewish Insider in an interview.

    Full story: https://ji.news/4cg58

    Read more: https://jewishinsider.com/2025/10/kennedy-center-jewish-culture-antisemitism-art-israeli-lounge/

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  3. Oy Vay! Eye-yai-yai! No, I am not trying to be funny. If Mamdani is elected, Israel will have to prepare a contingency plan to airlift Jews from New York to Israel.At any rate, Orthox, observant Jews.