December 20, 2008
Enews December 2008
Welcome to the electronic newsletter of the National Museum of American Jewish History. This newsletter is designed to keep you informed of exhibitions, programs and other activities of the NMAJH, the only Museum in the country exclusively presenting educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore and celebrate the history of the Jews in America.
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MUSEUM HOLDS ANNUAL FAMILY DAY OF FUN ON DECEMBER 25th.
Jon Nelson's Rockin' Kids Review will bring the house down in their "Being Jewish At Christmas" debut at the National Museum of American Jewish History. The annual "Being Jewish at Christmas" program of family fun, which features music, comedy, refreshments and more, will be held Thursday, Dec. 25, noon - 4 p.m.
Jon Nelson is a mainstay on the national children's music scene, both as a solo artist, and with his Jon Nelson's Rockin' Kids Review. His unique performances for kids and their families are rooted in his love of rock & roll and his desire to teach children through fun and interactive music. Jon's Rockin Kids' Review treats audiences to a rip roaring, hand clapping, foot stomping, educational and interactive concert that every child, parent and grandparent will love.
Jon's fresh, exciting and innovative original songs have appeared on several nationally distributed compilation CDs, and his music is heard on radio stations in the United States and abroad. Joining Jon Nelson's Rockin' Kids Review are returning BJAC entertainers Michael Rosman, whose amazing feats of all-ages comedy has been seen on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and who has performed numerous times inimage Atlantic City. Also returning is "Best of Philly" Party Entertainer Ken Fink from Wondergy, who fuels curiosity by making science fun and exciting. Also returning will be the Mark Segal Puppet Theatre. Refreshments provided by Kaplan's New Model Bakery will be provided, and all children will receive a "goodie bag."
"Being Jewish at Christmas" is held at the National Museum of American Jewish History, Independence Mall East, 55 North 5th Street, noon to 4:00 p.m. Tickets are $5 per person (children two and under admitted free). BJAC is also free to Museum members and members of the military. Tickets are available only at the door. For more information call 215-923-3811 x 148. "Being Jewish at Christmas" is made possible by the generous support of the Robert Saligman Jewish Heritage Fund.
FEEL FREE TO BE FLOORED BY THE MUSEUM'S CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS
As the steel structure rises on Independence Mall, passers-bimagey no longer see just a skeleton of the new building the museum is constructing.
Being added to the frameare steel corrugated panels that are now serving as flooring
While these panels are now bare, they will eventually support concrete flooring for the exhibition space. Concrete will be poured one floor at a time starting with the second floor the first week in January and ending with the roof the first week in March. While the floors are being worked on, welders, such as the one pictured below, continue working on the steel beams. Contractor INTECH Construction is scheduled to finish the steel structure by the end of January 2008.
The Museum is in the midst of a $150 million Capital Campaign for construction of the 100,000-square-foot, five-story building. More than $112 million has been raised for the Campaign.image The new Museum is scheduled to be completed in fall 2010. For information on how to support the Museum, contact Irv Hurwitz, the Museum's director of institutional advancement at 215.923.3811 x 133.
For an up-to-date picture of the construction site that refreshes every 15 minutes, view our Museum-Cam.
Photo Credit: Ilana Blumenthal
SUPPORT THE MUSEUM'S MISSION
Be a part of the Museum's present and its future. As the year is coming to a close, the Museum is seeking gifts for the Annual Fund.Gifts to the Annual Fund support the Museum's collections and educational programs reaching more than 5,000 school children each year, and public programs highlighting the opportunities and challenges one ethnicity encounters when living in freedom.
For more information on the Annual Fund or the Museum's Capital Campaign, contact Irv Hurwitz, the Museum's director of institutional advancement, at 215.923.3811 x 133.
WHITE MODELS PLAY ROLE IN SHAPING EXHIBIT SPACES IN NEW MUSEUM
Among the ways the Museum's changing exhibition Shaping Space, Making Meaning offers visitors the opportunity to learn how a museum creates a major exhibition is by exhibiting models used by designers to explore the physical space of gallery that is difficult to sort out on paper. The pictured model was built to show how the Museum might re-create a suburban environment, which will be in the Museum's second floor, in a section of the exhibition that explores postwar America.
The home in the exhibition will be an immersive environment that will provide an opportunity to examine how physical spaces, the things people put in them, and the ways they used them can be a lens into how many American Jews balanced increasing social integration with continuing efforts to define Jewishness in postwar America.
The environment will contain objects related to the foods Jews ate, to the cookbooks they purchased, to the clothes they wore, the games they played, the sports they watched, and the fiction they read. The artifact cases in the suburban home will create a vivid illustration of everyday life in postwar suburbs. There will also be home movies projected on unexpected surfaces. A period television set shows excerpts from The Ed Sullivan Show, The Goldbergs, The Show of Shows, popular culture commercials and the 1947 World Series.
Admission is free to Shaping Space, Making Meaning, which also has design sketches, computer-generated images, video and text that also offer an insider's look at the process of developing a landmark exhibition about more than 350 years of American Jewish life. The NMAJH's exhibition design team is in the process of creating the 22,000-square-foot exhibition for the new Museum.
ASSORTED CHALLAH PLATES FOR SALE AT MUSEUM SHOP
The Museum Shop is offering an array of challah plates perfect for your Shabbat dinner table such as the one pictured here made in Israel by Artist Revital Ginsberg. This handpainted ceramic plate is adorned with a delicate floral pattern in olive and navy. The Hebrew phrase "Shabbat Shalom," meaning "Good Sabbath" is writtenimageacross the center. The bow pictured around the plate is included. The plate sells for $80.
This challah plate is one of a variety of Shabbat related items being sold at the Museum Shop and in its online store. The Museum Shop carries Judaica from artists all over the world. Visit the Shop to browse the large assortment of items in all price ranges. For more information contact the Museum Shop at 215.923.0262.
The Museum Shop is open Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; and Sunday 12 noon - 5 p.m. Proceeds from the Museum Shop support the National Museum of American Jewish History.
MUSEUM OFFERS COMEDY SPECIAL TO THREE SUBSCRIBERS
The Museum is teaming up with the Gershman Y to offer three E-Newsletter subscribers a special offer to attend the Moo Shu Jew Show, a mishugunah evening of Jewish inspired stand-up comedy along with a five-course Chinese dinner at Ocean City restaurant in Philly's Chinatown. The performance will take place on Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24, 6 p.m.
The Moo Shu Jew Show was created by comedian Cory Kahaney (pictured) who
performs regularly for Jewish audiences. She is the creator and star of off-Broadway's The J.A.P. Show: the Princesses of Comedy, Making Trouble, and Heroes of Jewish Comedy and has appeared on such television programs as The View, Last Comic Standing and the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Kahaney has been called "the go to gal for Jewish comedy" by Hadassah magazine. Moo Shu Jew Show also stars comedians Jim David, Lenny Marcus and Brad Trackman.
The first three people to respond to dkatz@gershmany.org will receive the subscriber offer of buy one, get one ticket free. Put "Moo Shu Jew Show" in the subject line and be sure to include your name and address in the body.
Tickets are $55 if purchased in advance and $65 at the door. The price includes the comedy show, dinner, tax & tip.
For more information on the show, other performers and to purchase tickets visit www.mooshujewshow.com or call 215.445.3012.
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National Museum of American Jewish History
Independence Mall East
55 North 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-2197
Tel: 215.923.3811 Fax: 215.923.0763
www.nmajh.org
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MUSEUM HOLDS ANNUAL FAMILY DAY OF FUN ON DECEMBER 25th.
Jon Nelson's Rockin' Kids Review will bring the house down in their "Being Jewish At Christmas" debut at the National Museum of American Jewish History. The annual "Being Jewish at Christmas" program of family fun, which features music, comedy, refreshments and more, will be held Thursday, Dec. 25, noon - 4 p.m.
Jon Nelson is a mainstay on the national children's music scene, both as a solo artist, and with his Jon Nelson's Rockin' Kids Review. His unique performances for kids and their families are rooted in his love of rock & roll and his desire to teach children through fun and interactive music. Jon's Rockin Kids' Review treats audiences to a rip roaring, hand clapping, foot stomping, educational and interactive concert that every child, parent and grandparent will love.
Jon's fresh, exciting and innovative original songs have appeared on several nationally distributed compilation CDs, and his music is heard on radio stations in the United States and abroad. Joining Jon Nelson's Rockin' Kids Review are returning BJAC entertainers Michael Rosman, whose amazing feats of all-ages comedy has been seen on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and who has performed numerous times inimage Atlantic City. Also returning is "Best of Philly" Party Entertainer Ken Fink from Wondergy, who fuels curiosity by making science fun and exciting. Also returning will be the Mark Segal Puppet Theatre. Refreshments provided by Kaplan's New Model Bakery will be provided, and all children will receive a "goodie bag.""Being Jewish at Christmas" is held at the National Museum of American Jewish History, Independence Mall East, 55 North 5th Street, noon to 4:00 p.m. Tickets are $5 per person (children two and under admitted free). BJAC is also free to Museum members and members of the military. Tickets are available only at the door. For more information call 215-923-3811 x 148. "Being Jewish at Christmas" is made possible by the generous support of the Robert Saligman Jewish Heritage Fund.
FEEL FREE TO BE FLOORED BY THE MUSEUM'S CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS
As the steel structure rises on Independence Mall, passers-bimagey no longer see just a skeleton of the new building the museum is constructing.Being added to the frameare steel corrugated panels that are now serving as flooring
While these panels are now bare, they will eventually support concrete flooring for the exhibition space. Concrete will be poured one floor at a time starting with the second floor the first week in January and ending with the roof the first week in March. While the floors are being worked on, welders, such as the one pictured below, continue working on the steel beams. Contractor INTECH Construction is scheduled to finish the steel structure by the end of January 2008.
The Museum is in the midst of a $150 million Capital Campaign for construction of the 100,000-square-foot, five-story building. More than $112 million has been raised for the Campaign.image The new Museum is scheduled to be completed in fall 2010. For information on how to support the Museum, contact Irv Hurwitz, the Museum's director of institutional advancement at 215.923.3811 x 133.
For an up-to-date picture of the construction site that refreshes every 15 minutes, view our Museum-Cam.
Photo Credit: Ilana Blumenthal
SUPPORT THE MUSEUM'S MISSION
Be a part of the Museum's present and its future. As the year is coming to a close, the Museum is seeking gifts for the Annual Fund.Gifts to the Annual Fund support the Museum's collections and educational programs reaching more than 5,000 school children each year, and public programs highlighting the opportunities and challenges one ethnicity encounters when living in freedom.
Your gift will come at an exciting time for the Museum which is creating an expansive destination site that will chronicle the American Jewish experience through intriguing exhibits, rare artifacts, interactive displays and an array of educational and cultural programs for adults and children alike.To make a tax deductible gift to the Annual Fund please visit the Annual Fund Donation Page.
For more information on the Annual Fund or the Museum's Capital Campaign, contact Irv Hurwitz, the Museum's director of institutional advancement, at 215.923.3811 x 133.
WHITE MODELS PLAY ROLE IN SHAPING EXHIBIT SPACES IN NEW MUSEUM
Among the ways the Museum's changing exhibition Shaping Space, Making Meaning offers visitors the opportunity to learn how a museum creates a major exhibition is by exhibiting models used by designers to explore the physical space of gallery that is difficult to sort out on paper. The pictured model was built to show how the Museum might re-create a suburban environment, which will be in the Museum's second floor, in a section of the exhibition that explores postwar America.
The home in the exhibition will be an immersive environment that will provide an opportunity to examine how physical spaces, the things people put in them, and the ways they used them can be a lens into how many American Jews balanced increasing social integration with continuing efforts to define Jewishness in postwar America.
The environment will contain objects related to the foods Jews ate, to the cookbooks they purchased, to the clothes they wore, the games they played, the sports they watched, and the fiction they read. The artifact cases in the suburban home will create a vivid illustration of everyday life in postwar suburbs. There will also be home movies projected on unexpected surfaces. A period television set shows excerpts from The Ed Sullivan Show, The Goldbergs, The Show of Shows, popular culture commercials and the 1947 World Series.
Admission is free to Shaping Space, Making Meaning, which also has design sketches, computer-generated images, video and text that also offer an insider's look at the process of developing a landmark exhibition about more than 350 years of American Jewish life. The NMAJH's exhibition design team is in the process of creating the 22,000-square-foot exhibition for the new Museum.
ASSORTED CHALLAH PLATES FOR SALE AT MUSEUM SHOP
The Museum Shop is offering an array of challah plates perfect for your Shabbat dinner table such as the one pictured here made in Israel by Artist Revital Ginsberg. This handpainted ceramic plate is adorned with a delicate floral pattern in olive and navy. The Hebrew phrase "Shabbat Shalom," meaning "Good Sabbath" is writtenimageacross the center. The bow pictured around the plate is included. The plate sells for $80.
This challah plate is one of a variety of Shabbat related items being sold at the Museum Shop and in its online store. The Museum Shop carries Judaica from artists all over the world. Visit the Shop to browse the large assortment of items in all price ranges. For more information contact the Museum Shop at 215.923.0262.
The Museum Shop is open Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; and Sunday 12 noon - 5 p.m. Proceeds from the Museum Shop support the National Museum of American Jewish History.
MUSEUM OFFERS COMEDY SPECIAL TO THREE SUBSCRIBERS
The Museum is teaming up with the Gershman Y to offer three E-Newsletter subscribers a special offer to attend the Moo Shu Jew Show, a mishugunah evening of Jewish inspired stand-up comedy along with a five-course Chinese dinner at Ocean City restaurant in Philly's Chinatown. The performance will take place on Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24, 6 p.m.
The Moo Shu Jew Show was created by comedian Cory Kahaney (pictured) who
performs regularly for Jewish audiences. She is the creator and star of off-Broadway's The J.A.P. Show: the Princesses of Comedy, Making Trouble, and Heroes of Jewish Comedy and has appeared on such television programs as The View, Last Comic Standing and the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Kahaney has been called "the go to gal for Jewish comedy" by Hadassah magazine. Moo Shu Jew Show also stars comedians Jim David, Lenny Marcus and Brad Trackman.
The first three people to respond to dkatz@gershmany.org will receive the subscriber offer of buy one, get one ticket free. Put "Moo Shu Jew Show" in the subject line and be sure to include your name and address in the body.
Tickets are $55 if purchased in advance and $65 at the door. The price includes the comedy show, dinner, tax & tip.
For more information on the show, other performers and to purchase tickets visit www.mooshujewshow.com or call 215.445.3012.
___________________________________
National Museum of American Jewish History
Independence Mall East
55 North 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-2197
Tel: 215.923.3811 Fax: 215.923.0763
www.nmajh.org
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