Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Skirball Cultural Center. The Skirball Cultural Center, founded in 1996, is a Jewish educational institution in Los Angeles, California.The center, named after philanthropist couple Jack H. Skirball and Audrey Skirball-Kenis, has a museum with regularly changing exhibitions, film events, music and theater performances, comedy, family, literary, and cultural programs.
The Jewish Museum is an art museum and repository of cultural artifacts, housed at 1109 Fifth Avenue, in the former Felix M. Warburg House, along the Museum Mile on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The first Jewish museum in the United States, as well as the oldest extant Jewish museum in the world, it contains the largest ...
The Yeshiva University Museum is a teaching museum and the cultural arm of Yeshiva University.Along with the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, it is a member organization of the Center for Jewish History, a Smithsonian Institution affiliate located in the Chelsea neighborhood of ...
The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art Martha Beck [3] in 1977, with the mandate of seeking to "express the quality and diversity of drawing -- unique works on paper -- as a major art form". [4]
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (formerly the Judah L. Magnes Museum) is an extensive collection of Jewish history, art, and culture at the University of California, Berkeley. The Magnes Collection comprises more than 30,000 Jewish artifacts and manuscripts, the third largest collection of its kind in the United States. [ 4 ]
The original motion would allocate $400,000 to the Jewish Federation's Community Security Initiative, $350,000 for a contract with the nonprofit private security firm Magen Am, and $250,000 to the ...
The Bernard Museum of Judaica, formally the Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica, is part of Temple Emanu-El on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Their museum hosts temporary exhibits on various aspects of Jewish life, faith, and culture. [1] The museum consists of three galleries which are housed in three relatively small rooms on the second ...
At one recent death cafe, Lui recalled, there were 30 people, “and that was a little too much.” Michael Allison, 62, laughs a little while sharing with the group of participants in the death cafe.