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Celebrating our 2023 Accomplishments
Look at what you helped make possible! Our galleries are alive with locals and tourists, taking in the breadth of… (Read more)
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg feature in "Connect. Reflect. Act." galleries. / Visitors in the historic sanctuary. / An intern cataloguing and digitizing images from the collection. / Students in "What is Jewish Washington?" galleries. / Students in "Connect. Reflect. Act." exhibition. / Michael Twitty and Susan Barocas in "Connect. Reflect. Act." exhibition. / GatherDC members in the Community Action Lab. Photo: Aryeh Schwartz; Aryeh Photo / GatherDC members in the lobby. Photo: Aryeh Schwartz; Aryeh Photo / Members and donors at an event for the Museum's grand opening. Photo: Daniel Swartz / CJM Block Party, Sep 2023. Photo: Chris Firenzi Photography
Color photograph of the interior of Katz’s Kosher Supermarket at 20 University Blvd East, July 1970. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Alex Mates.
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The Story of Katz’s Kosher Supermarket
Thanks to a very special NEW additional match challenge from board member Gene Sofer and his wife Judith Bartnoff, all… (Read more)
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Welcome Brady Daniller, Director of Operations
Brady Daniller, a Maryland native, comes to the Museum from the National Museum of American Jewish Heritage with experience in… (Read more)
Anna Barr, Education Manager for School, Youth, and Family Programs, at the Museum's 3rd Street entrance, Fall 2023
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Introducing Anna Barr, Education Manager for School, Youth, and Family Programs
Anna Barr, a Virginia native and recent DC transplant, comes to the Museum with experience in both museums and classrooms…. (Read more)
Malki Karkowsky, Chief Advancement Officer. Photo: Aryeh Schwartz
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So That Your Generations Will Know
We are now celebrating Sukkot, the Feast of the Tabernacles, one of only three pilgrimage holidays in the Torah when… (Read more)
Doll portraying Golda Meir, created as one of the “Dolls for Democracy” series by B’nai B’rith Women. / Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Jewish Women International.
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Ordinary Barbie
“What about Ordinary Barbie? She’s not extraordinary. She’s not president of anything.” (–Gloria, to Mattel executives, Barbie: The Movie) Welcome… (Read more)
Cornerstone laying, Jewish Community Center, 16th and Q Streets NW in 1925. Capital Jewish Museum Collection, Jewish Community Center Collection.
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Openings
What does it mean to open a museum? I mean that in the existential way—of course I now have some… (Read more)
Employees of Gichner Iron Works gathered in front of the building at 1214-1216 D Street NW. / Capital Jewish Museum collection 2015.27.01. Gift of Nancy Colodny.
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Gichner Iron Works
This past February, I started digging into the history of Maryland iron furnaces, a quest that has led us into… (Read more)
Isadore Gimble inside Congress Food Market at 5ht and E. Capitol Streets, NE reading The Jewish Daily Forward newspaper in Yiddish, 1953. / Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Photograph by Gilbert Gimble, Gift of Josephine Gimble.
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Food for Thought: Congress Food Market
Congress Food Market at 5th and East Capital Streets, NE, was owned by the Gimble family, one of many small… (Read more)
Color photo (detail) of Sidney Drazin in front of Comet Liquor Store at 1815 Columbia Road, NW c. 1990s. / Capital Jewish Museum Collection, Bernice Drazin.
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Food for Thought: The Lost Souls of Comet Liquor
Comet Liquor was opened by Oscar Gildenhorn at 18th And Columbia Rd, NW in 1940 and became an institution in… (Read more)