Rachela Jacobowitz, nee Wolman, born 1924 in Sochaczew, Poland. courtesy JCC

“Tell It To Your Children...Let Them Pass It On From Generation to Generation” (Joel 1:3), a Holocaust artifacts exhibit, will be at the Waltuch Gallery at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly through March 28. A reception with survivors and their families will be on Sunday, March 11, from 1 to 3 p.m.

There will be a rare display of Holocaust-related artifacts belonging to seven Bergen County survivors. Each artifact in this exhibit – whether a document, a piece of clothing, a photo, or a news clipping – tells a powerful story of survival that took place in Germany, France, Holland, Poland, Italy, England, and China. Plans for the exhibit were initiated nearly a year ago, when the JCC and Mordecai Paldiel, a professor at Stern College who is the exhibit’s curator, invited local Holocaust survivors and their families to share their Holocaust-related mementos and personal artifacts in a special exhibition at the JCC.

Kehinde Wiley, Alios Itzhak (The World Stage: Israel), 2011, oil and gold enamel on canvas. The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo courtesy Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California.

The Jewish Museum in Manhattan will present “Kehinde Wiley/The World Stage: Israel,” from March 9 through July 29. The exhibition features 14 large-scale paintings from the contemporary American painter Kehinde Wiley’s newest series exhibited for the first time in New York. The vibrant portraits of Israeli youths from diverse ethnic and religious affiliations are embedded in a unique background influenced by Jewish ceremonial art.

On Thursday, March 15, at 6:30 p.m., the museum will present Kehinde Wiley in conversation with Lola Ogunnaike, a leading pop culture authority and a “Today Show” contributor. Call (212) 423-3337 or www.TheJewishMuseum.org/wileyprograms.

“North from prisoner’s barrack at Mittelbau-Dora” (a Nazi Germany labour camp), by Scott Wiener, 2009. Courtesy 92nd Street Y

The Milton J. Weill Art Gallery at the 92nd Street Y will feature “The Luxury of Distance,” Scott Wiener’s new exhibit of 11 large photographs of representations of the Shoah. Wiener seeks to create what he calls “a kind of poetry in reverse” — using the traditional photographic language of beauty in nature combined with knowledge of where the photographs were taken. An opening reception will be on Wednesday, March 3, from 5 to 7 p.m., and the exhibit will run through May 7. Call (212) 415-5563 or www.92Y.org.

“Apples & Onions” by Ludlow Smethurst

“Power of Squares: Salute to Women in the Arts” with mixed media and paintings is on display at the Waltuch Gallery of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly this month. A meet-the-artist reception will be on Sunday, Feb. 5, from 1 to 3 p.m. Salute is an affiliate of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey. Admission is free and artwork is available for sale. For information, call Ophrah Listokin, Waltuch Gallery director, at (201) 408-1408 or www.jccotp.org.

Salute to Women in the Arts, an organization for artists affiliated with the Art Center of Northern New Jersey in New Milford, will display its annual January Art Winterfest exhibition “Women’s Issues: Controversy and Challenge,” through Jan. 30.

Sheryl Intrator Urman was recently named vice president of exhibitions for the group. A member of Salute for six years, she hopes to bring the mitzvah of tzedakah (charity) to the organization by collaborating with local charities and having artists contribute a portion of their proceeds to these causes.

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A photograph by Ely Dennis.

“Point of View” photographs by Ely Dennis will be on display at the Waltuch Gallery of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly from Jan. 2 to 26. A meet-the-artist reception will be on Sunday, Jan. 8, from 1 to 3 p.m.

The photographs are mostly high resolution archival black and white images, printed on metallic paper, that capture unique images — or “Points of View” — of people, buildings and landscapes, taken in New York City, Rockland County, Asbury Park, Southern California, and Canada. For information, call Ophrah Listokin, at (201) 408-1408 or www.jccotp.org.

Liron Sissman, an internationally collected, Israeli raised, Bergen County-based artist, paints in oils to depict nature often with a metaphorical flare. Hudson Valley Hospital Center acquired her large-scale artworks of scenes in New Jersey for its new oncology wing. Sissman’s works are also displayed in many medical centers including Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and AtlantiCare Medical Center in Atlantic City.

David and Agnes Adler

The Martin Hicks Gallery at the Belskie Museum of Art in Closter will present an exhibit by Holocaust survivors/sculptors Agnes and David Adler of Westwood. Their creative work began in Israel where they went after escaping from Hungary. They met in 1955 as students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv, married, and immigrated to the United States in 1961.

Agnes Adler was the recipient of a Puffin Foundation grant to digitalize her large collages dealing with issues of social justice, a selection of which will be in the exhibit.

The exhibit opens on Sunday, Jan. 8, with a reception from 1 to 5 p.m. (201) 768-0286 or www.belskiemuseum.com.