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March 10, 2020

What a Failed Jewish Museum Says about the Misguided Priorities of the American Jewish Establishment

Museums are nice things to have, but they are not as important as schools, summer camps, Hebrew classes, and synagogues.

Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH), which opened its doors in 2010, announced recently that it is filing for bankruptcy. An expansion of an earlier and more modest museum, founded in 1976, the institution later relocated to a grand building overlooking the Liberty Bell—which came with a price tag of $150 million. To Jonathan Tobin, not only were the troubles of NMAJH foreseeable, but they offer a telling lesson in the misallocated priorities of the American Jewish community:

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