<h4><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2414 aligncenter" src="https://www.nmajh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NMAJH_GIF_V3.gif" alt="" width="612" height="396" /></h4> <h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>We are embarking on a bright future. </strong><strong>Join the celebration!</strong></h4> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Monday, December 6 at 6 pm</strong> <strong>at the National Museum of American Jewish History</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;">$250 Individual Tickets Tribute ads and sponsorships available Donations welcome Full details below</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">JUST ADDED:</span><strong> </strong>Broadway star <a href="https://www.nmajh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Adam-Kantor-Bio.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-link-type="web">Adam Kantor</a> of <em>Rent</em>, <em>Fiddler on the Roof</em>, <em>The Band’s Visit</em>, and <em>Avenue Q</em> joins our December 6 celebration to help honor our Board and Benefactors</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">RSVP by December 1</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a id="home__event-all-cta" class="box-cta box-cta--small box-cta--inline box-cta--red box-cta-filled" href="https://www.classy.org/event/miracle-on-the-mall/e374559?c_src=dec6event&amp;c_src2=website" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="box-cta__label">Click here to RSVP</span></a></p> <h6 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Please contact <a href="mailto:development@nmajh.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-link-type="email">development@nmajh.org</a> with questions.</strong></h6> &nbsp; <h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Why we're celebrating:</strong></h4> <p style="text-align: center;">As you know, it's been a difficult time for arts and culture organizations. The Museum made the hard decision to file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection in March 2020 just two weeks before the pandemic-induced shutdown.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">We had planned to fully operate during the proceedings but like all other organizations, our operations ceased along with our primary sources of income.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">We were so excited to report that we exited Chapter 11 on September 17, 2021 thanks to the generosity of our fiercest supporters.</p> <div></div> <div></div> <div> <hr /> </div> <div> &nbsp; <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Board of Trustees through October 2021 </strong>Susanna Lachs Adler Scott Akman Philip Balderston Harold Berger Stephen A. Cozen Philip M. Darivoff Elijah S. Dornstreich Alec Ellison Gwen D. Goodman Alan J. Hoffman Thomas O. Katz Sharon Tobin Kestenbaum Andrew Klaber Elaine Lindy Mitchell L. Morgan Mark Oster Matthew Pestronk Daniel Promislo Lyn M. Ross Laury Saligman Sherrie R. Savett Brett J. Schulman Mimi Schneirov Daniel A. Shapiro Meredith C. Slawe Lindy Snider Michael Swift Joseph S. Zuritsky</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Benefactors </strong>Sandy and Steve Cozen Betsy and Philip Darivoff Caroline and Sidney Kimmel The Morgan Family Lyn M. Ross Ronald Rubin z"l The Robert Saligman Charitable Foundation The Hess Foundation Etta Winigrad Lisa and Richard Witten Joseph S. Zuritsky</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Gala Committee </strong>Stephen A. Cozen Philip M. Darivoff Amanda Goldstein Gwen D. Goodman Shirley Honickman Hahn Sharon Tobin Kestenbaum Laura Lenet Lyn M. Ross Brett J. Schulman Meredith C. Slawe Lindy Snider Michael Swift Joseph S. Zuritsky</p> </div>

<strong>Thursday, December 16 at 1 pm ET</strong> <b>Free with suggested <a href="https://www.classy.org/give/334605/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=Twitty2021&amp;c_src2=EventPageLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$10 donation</a></b> <b>See "Ways to Watch" below</b> Tune in as we get to know the James Beard Award-winning culinary historian and food writer <strong>Michael Twitty.</strong> We'll talk about the highly anticipated  release of his third book, <em>Koshersoul, </em>which will focus on Jewish and Black food traditions through the eyes of Black Jews and Southerners who converted to Judaism, including his own. We'll find out more about Twitty's role as an educator in the Jewish community around Washington DC, his work as an interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, his recent appearance at the Netflix series <strong><em><a href="https://youtu.be/7wsEdxt1Ico">High on the Hog</a>, </em></strong>and his myriad other exciting projects. The video below is a clip from PBS NewsHour featuring Michael Twitty and his work at Colonial Williamsburg. <iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R6l8jRF-eGA" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> <strong>About the Author</strong> Michael W. Twitty is a living history interpreter, culinary historian, and food writer personally charged with teaching, documenting, and preserving the African American culinary traditions of the historic South and the wider African Atlantic world as well as parent traditions in Africa. He blogs at <strong><a href="http://www.AfroCulinaria.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afroculinaria</a>.</strong> His first book, <em>The Cooking Gene</em> (HarperCollins 2017), won the 2018 James Beard Award, making him one of the few Black authors so awarded. Twitty's latest book, <em>Rice</em>, is just out with UNC press. <em>Koshersoul </em>(HarperCollins), about his culinary journey as a Jew of African descent, will be out in 2022. <strong>Ways to Watch</strong> <b>Facebook: </b>Look for the LIVE post on the<strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/nmajh" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Museum’s Facebook page</a></strong> at 1pm ET. You do not need a Facebook account to view the program. <b>NMAJH website: </b>A little before the program start time, the livestream will also be <strong>available at the top of this page</strong>. You will be prompted to enter your email address. Please note that you may need to refresh your screen and press “play” on the video—the static image will be replaced with the live feed before the program starts. <b>Zoom: </b>Registration is required to receive the link–<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ihk9pqpnSv22fO_EF52JPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>click here</strong></a>. The Museum’s Zoom can accommodate 500 guests. Should we reach that number, please use one of the other methods listed above—they are all free and have unlimited capacity.

<b>Sunday, December 19 at 1 pm ET</b> <b>Free with suggested <a href="https://www.classy.org/give/334605/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=SefaradPart3&amp;c_src2=EventPageButton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$10 donation</a></b> <b>Watch on Zoom - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sefarad-to-be-or-not-to-be-tickets-212605046417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register Here</a></b> <div class="g-group l-mar-bot-6 l-sm-mar-bot-4"> <div class="structured-content g-cell g-cell-10-12 g-cell-md-1-1"> <div class="has-user-generated-content" data-automation="about-this-event-sc"> <div class="structured-content-rich-text structured-content__module l-align-left l-mar-vert-6 l-sm-mar-vert-4 text-body-medium"> On December 19, 2021,<strong> Jewish Heritage Alliance and their participating co-hosting partners </strong>will present <em><strong>“Sefarad... To Be or Not to Be”,</strong></em> a webinar that will explore the torturous dilemma facing the Jews of Sefarad once the 1492 Edict of Expulsion was issued. In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued the Edict of Expulsion, giving Jews a few months in which to depart the country where their ancestors had lived for centuries or convert to Catholicism. One of the stories accompanying this drama was that of Isaac Abarbanel and Abraham Senior, colleagues, and powerful Jewish advisers to Queen Isabella who argued to the King and Queen to rescind the Edict of Expulsion. When their efforts failed, they were forced to choose. Isaac Abarbanel and his family left for Italy to live openly as Jews, but Abraham Senior and his family converted to stay in Spain. We will explore the painstaking decisions that determined the fate of 150,000 Jews and 25 generations of their descendants, both the openly practicing Sephardic Jews around the Mediterranean, and the conversos/crypto-Jews in the Americas. <strong>Program Introduction:</strong> Michael Steinberger, CEO &amp; Founder of Jewish Heritage Alliance. <strong>Key Presenter:</strong> Ron Duncan Hart, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist from Indiana University with postdoctoral work in Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. He is the Director of the Jewish Learning Channel and former President of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico. He has awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, Fulbright, and the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society among others. He has written several books on Jewish life and cultural history and the most recent is Crypto-Jews: The Long Journey. He is co-author/editor of the award-winning book Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World Identities. <strong>Guest Speakers:</strong> Blanca Carrasco, a converso descendant of Marcos Alonso de La Garza y del Arcon, co-founder of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, will speak about her experience of returning to the open practice of Judaism. Dr. Isaac Amon, a descendant of Moses Hamon, a Jewish physician to Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, will speak about his family’s odyssey from Spain to Turkey and beyond. ______________________________________________________________________________ <aside><em>This program is being presented by Jewish Heritage Alliance in partnership with the National Museum of American Jewish History, ANU Museum of the Jewish People, the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, The American Sephardi Federation’s Institute of Jewish Experience, Fundación HispanoJudía, EJCC European Jewish Community Center, University of Miami (Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies and the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies), Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and Kulanu.</em></aside></div> </div> </div> </div>

<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="head1"><span class="head2"><span class="head3">Being ___on Christmas. </span></span></span></strong></h3> <h5 style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="head1"><strong><span class="head2"><span class="head3">Snowy. Jewish. Happy. Caring. Buddhist. Generous. Family. Creative. Friendly. Sparkly. </span></span></strong></span></em></h5> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="head1"><span class="head2"><span class="head3">Fill in your own blank and join us for our annual day of family fun.</span></span></span></strong></h3> <span class="head1"><span class="head2"><span class="head3"><strong>Saturday, December 25, 10 am - 3pm ET</strong> <b>Free with suggested <a href="https://www.classy.org/give/334605/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=Being___onChristmas2021&amp;c_src2=EventPageButton">$18 donation</a></b> <b>See "Ways to Watch" below</b></span></span></span> <span class="head1"><span class="head2"><span class="head3">The Museum is open virtually. The online galleries are warm. All we need is you to get the party started. Join us for an all day livestream packed with fun for the entire family. Confirmed activities include: </span></span></span> <ul> <li><span class="head1"><span class="head2"><span class="head3"><strong>Tot Shabbat</strong> service with musician, prayer leader, teacher, &amp; Rabbi, <a href="https://micahkaleidoscope.bandcamp.com/track/sheep-in-a-jeep" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Micah Shapiro</strong></a>.</span></span></span></li> <li><strong>Kids Concert </strong>featuring <a href="https://youtu.be/TXXZEV49z9E"><strong>Alex and the Kaleidoscope</strong></a>.</li> <li><span class="head1"><span class="head2"><span class="head3"><strong>Percussive Storytelling</strong> from the Grammy Award Winning artist, <a href="https://splatboombang.com/cory-hills" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Cory Hills</strong></a>.</span></span></span></li> <li><strong><a href="https://launch.tzedekbox.org/a-physical-box/tobi-kahn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tzedek Box</a>-making</strong> (hands on family craft activity) with esteemed theater creator, <strong><a href="https://kaplanwildmann.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eli Kaplan Wildmann</a>.</strong></li> <li><strong>Puppet-making</strong> with <strong>Jenny Strunge</strong> of the <strong>Black Cherry Puppet Theater.</strong></li> <li><strong>Crankie</strong> (scrolling story boxes)<strong> Performances</strong> from the Baker Artist Award winner, <strong><a href="https://bakerartist.org/portfolios/katherine-fahey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine Fahey</a>.</strong></li> <li><b>Music</b> from the <strong>Epichorus</strong><b> Duo</b> featuring the Malian Griot and Kora player, <a href="https://youtu.be/kdrsJ3EIlhU"><strong>Yacouba Sissoko</strong></a>, with multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, <a href="https://temenosnyc.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Rabbi Zach Fredman</strong></a>.</li> </ul> Full lineup and more information coming soon! ______________________________________________________________ <em>Sponsored by the Robert Saligman Jewish Heritage Fund+</em>