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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 ...
A Jewish museum is a museum which focuses upon Jews and may refer seek to explore and share the Jewish experience in a given area. Jewish Museum of Belgium , in Brussels . Notable Jewish museums include:
Children's Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2000; Hollywood Erotic Museum, closed in 2006; Sports Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2016 [5] VIVA Art Center – Valley Institute of Visual Art, closed in 2011 [6] [7] [8] Wells Fargo History Museum (Los Angeles), closed in 2020 [9]
The Center for Jewish History is a partnership of five Jewish history, scholarship, and art organizations in New York City, namely the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute New York, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Together, housed in one location, the partners ...
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 ...
In 1874, a group of German-Jewish professionals established the New York Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA). The founders were predominantly members of the Temple Shaaray Tefila, or synagogue, and New York's YMHA and others across the country grew out of existing Jewish congregations. The YMHA itself was a secular organization intended to ...