Yoel Finkelman

Sep 30, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Emil Stern |Akiva Schick |Yoel Finkelman

When the $488 million Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in Los Angeles in September 2021 after what The New York Times called an “almost comical series of setbacks,” its organizers must have felt they could finally rest and roll credits. After all, they had given a lavish glow up to the 1939 Streamline Moderne May Company Building on the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire next to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum.

Jul 16, 2023 | blog.nli.org.il | Yoel Finkelman

Home > Sephardic Jewry > It Sounds Better in French… or Does It? What happened when rabbinic courts in Morocco were under the authority of the French colonial government? Dr. Yoel Finkelman 16.07.2023 https://blog.nli.org.il/en/kenitra_court/ A "Ketubah", a traditional Jewish marriage contract from Kenitra, Morocco, 1951, the National Library of IsraelYou never know what you’re going to find in an archive. A single, seemingly innocent page might be evidence of something quite large.