As the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art welcomes its 50th anniversary this year, the organization is opening a new show that may very well be one of its most important installations yet.
Called “Fallout: October 7 and the New Antisemitism,” the show explores the effects of the terrorist attacks in Israel in the fall of 2023 and how the world has changed since. The exhibition is being put on in collaboration with the Jewish Art Salon. The museum is housed at Congregation Rodeph Shalom.
Robin Blumenfeld Switzenbaum is the co-chair of the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art Committee, and she said that the show represents a diverse set of viewpoints on the conflict in Israel and Gaza, which is a reflection of the way that the community at Rodeph Shalom feels about what is happening in the re