MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET Annual Report 2014

“This ranks with the historical 19th-century synagogues of Europe and Israel and is well worth a visit. Visitors of any religion will find a beautiful and graceful spiritual space.” Thanks to reviews like this, the Museum was awarded a 2014 Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor

“This ranks with the historical 19th-century Letter from the synagogues of Europe and Israel and is well worth a visit. Visitors of any religion will find a beautiful Chairman and and graceful spiritual space.” Thanks to reviews like this, the Museum was awarded Executive Director a 2014 Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor

2014 was a year of continued growth for the Museum at The core experience the Museum offers is our guided tour of Eldridge Street. In June we opened a beautiful, new visitor the Eldridge Street Synagogue. Today close to 80% of American center and permanent exhibition on the Museum’s entry level— Jews trace their ancestry to the community of Jews who the culmination of more than two years of fundraising, arrived in America between 1880 and 1924, part of a massive planning and design. Our new center has a profound impact wave of migration. And yet, as time passes, and the Lower East on how people experience our landmark site and learn about Side changes, very few sites remain that mark their journey. its history. Now they enter an elegant and inviting admission The Eldridge Street Synagogue is one of those places. Here area. Our visitors are particularly drawn to the Museum’s new the Jewish immigrant experience comes to life. We are proud permanent exhibition which uses artifacts, Yiddish signs, stewards of this landmark site, and recognize our responsibility Judaica, and digital displays to tell the story of the Eldridge to the public to keep a connection to that history and heritage Street Synagogue and the community of Jewish immigrants alive. In that regard, we want to single out the contributions of who settled on the Lower East Side. If you have not been to the Museum’s forty volunteer docents. They donate their time Eldridge Street since the opening of our visitor center, we to the museum, share their knowledge and passion, and are invite you to come by this year. our most gracious ambassadors to the public. If you visit the Museum, they will share the synagogue’s history with you, but Our educational and cultural programs continued to flourish. more than that, they will make you feel at home. In particular we want to share the growth of our adult learning classes which continue a 127-year tradition of Jewish learning Global events, sadly, have made us aware of the need for in our space. Today, if you visit the Museum during a weekday heightened security at our Jewish landmark. Please be assured morning and peek into our Gural-Rabinowitz Family History that in 2014 we introduced new measures to ensure the safety Center you will find a group of engaged learners in animated of our visitors and staff. conversation about Jewish texts and history. But we are home 2014 saw the passing of Mildred Caplow, who served on the not just to adult learners. In 2014, 7,500 school-age children Museum’s Board of Directors from 1995 to 2014. We also will visited the Museum to learn about Jewish holidays, immigrant miss the active involvement of Susan Malloy, who passed away history, and architecture and historic preservation. in early 2015. These two remarkable women played a leading Our Lost and Found Music series had its most successful year role in the restoration of the Eldridge Street Synagogue and yet. We presented a dazzling array of Jewish music ranging leave behind a poignant legacy. from Scottish klezmer to synagogue music of the Baroque We want to thank our colleagues on the Museum’s staff and period, from Sephardic music to Hasidic songs. We are board of directors. Their creativity, dedication and talent ensure particularly heartened that young musicians who are part of that our site will thrive for many years to come. Finally, we want a movement to revitalize nearly forgotten Jewish musical to thank you, our community of supporters. Your generosity traditions see our site as the place to perform. In 2014 four helps ensure the preservation and continued life of our CD release concerts featuring the music of innovative, young American Jewish landmark. You have made this a welcoming Jewish musicians took place here. We were also home to and dynamic space for all. special events like the screening of a deeply moving film by artist and filmmaker Mark Podwal on his recent Terezin Ghetto Museum exhibition.

Michael Weinstein Bonnie Dimun Chairman Executive Director Anna Shneyderman Aaron/OTTO Peter photo: Cover

1 2014 Highlights 2014 Highlights photos: Anna Shneyderman photos:

The Museum welcomed 40,000 visitors in 2014, a 9% increase over last year. Visitors came from throughout New York City, the nation and the world. The Museum received rave reviews from visitors: we were ranked in the top 25 of more than 644 attractions in New York City by Trip Advisor and received enthusiastic reviews on-line, in guidebooks, on social media and in our visitor surveys. Our new visitor center opened in June 2014, providing a welcoming, informative and more secure entry experience for visitors. Our visitor center’s beautiful new permanent exhibition features more than 50 artifacts and updated interactive displays that tell the story of the Eldridge Street Synagogue, its immigrant founders and our Lower East Side neighborhood. Our volunteer docents, designated one of the nation’s Preserve America Stewards by The White House, welcomed more than 13,000 visitors, and delivered more than 1,000 tours. The Museum’s competitive internship program received dozens of applications, and provided eight college and graduate students with the opportunity to lead tours, assist in our cultural and educational programs, and conduct archival research. Our public programs included concerts, talks, family events, and the popular Egg Rolls and Egg Cream Festival, and were attended by over 14,000 people. 7,500 school-age children—the highest annual total for the Museum in its history—visited in 2014 to learn about Jewish history, holidays and culture. Our gala honoring “Champions of the Spirit” Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Mariano Rivera, Ira Berkow and Art Shamsky raised more than $450,000 for the Museum. Kate Milford

3 Are you related? Check our on-line database of early congregants to see if your family may have prayed at the Eldridge Street Synagogue eldridgestreet.org/original-congregants/ Exhibitions & Tours

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NEW ORIENTATION CENTER AND PERMANENT EXHIBITION On Thursday, June 12, the Museum at Eldridge Street’s board members, donors, docents, and other friends celebrated the opening of our new visitor center. The project completely transformed the building’s lower level with a new entrance lobby, admission area and permanent exhibition.

Immediately facing the viewer upon entering the exhibition is

a large-scale reproduction of the Eldridge Street Synagogue’s Anna Shneyderman original 1886 architectural rendering, a testament to the grand vision of the synagogue’s immigrant founders. A nearby NEW ARTIFACTS AND STORIES FOR OUR illustrated map shows the immigrant pathway from Eastern GURAL-RABINOWITZ FAMILY HISTORY CENTER Europe to the Lower East Side and also introduces some of the There is nothing more satisfying than discovering old pho- congregation’s founding members, including banker Sender tographs of the synagogue’s earliest congregants or hearing Jarmulowsky, kosher meat makers Isaac and Sarah Gellis, their stories from current day descendants. That’s why we are and mikvah operator Gittel Natelson. The bulk of the exhibit particularly pleased to have updated the exhibition in the features artifacts from the Museum’s collection, many on Museum’s Gural-Rabinowitz Family History Center to focus display for the first time. These include beautiful silver and on family stories as told through oral histories and artifacts— velvet Torah dressings as well as more practical objects like some newly donated to the Museum’s collection. In 2014, the congregation’s early constitution and a ceramic spittoon. for the first time we saw the faces of early synagogue leader Restoration artifacts help complete the story, along with David Cohen and mikvah operator Gittel Natelson in updated digital displays by Potion Design. photographs donated by their descendants. Special thanks to the following for objects donated for our new exhibits: Randy The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) provided the initial Anderson, Sarah Andron, Joseph Bachner, Stanley Bergman, Scott Crawford, $150,000 grant for this project, which then allowed the Museum to raise Bonnie Dimun, New Era Factory Outlet, Sharon Stein and Ruth Warembud. matching funds. We are grateful to IMLS and to the following funders: 180 Varick Street Corporation, Susan and Jay Anderson, Bloomberg, The David Berg Foundation, Inc., Naomi Gat, The David Geffen Foundation, The Feil Organization, Hyde and Watson Foundation, Blanche and Irving The exhibition…is simultaneously dense Laurie Foundation, Inc., Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Inc., Lonnie and Thomas with artifacts and relatively small. Schwartz Foundation, Amy and Charles Spielman Family Foundation, Jane and Frances Stein Foundation, and two anonymous donations. That appealing combination means one can take in the history lesson quickly before proceeding upstairs to the glorious main sanctuary, or linger downstairs and pore over historical documents, architectural fragments, Yiddish signs, personal effects and thumbnail biographies of leading figures in the congregation.”

—DAVID DUNLAP, The New York Times Kate Milford

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OUR DOCENTS AND INTERNS Every day we are open, our volunteer docents bring to life the history of the Eldridge Street Synagogue welcoming visitors from all over the world. More than 13,000 people took a tour of the Eldridge Street Synagogue in 2014. The Museum’s docent program expanded this year to include forty people, including five new volunteers who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience from teaching and working in museums and other non-profit institutions. The docent program provides a wonderful community for those contemplating or entering retirement, young people who seek to gain museum experience, and those who want to connect with their Jewish heritage.

The Museum also offers a growing and competitive internship program. Interns thrive in our small museum environment which provides hands-on experience in all aspects of non-profit operations, including programs, education, fundraising, marketing, and social media. Graduates of our internship program have gone on to work at some of New York City’s most exciting cultural institutions, including the American Folk Art Museum, Green-Wood Cemetery, Guggenheim Museum, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and the Tenement Museum. In 2014 the Museum welcomed eight interns who came from Baruch College, Brandeis University, Eugene Lang College the New School, Grinnell College, Hampshire College, and Yeshiva University. Kate Milford

6 Teachers and students can download pre- and post-visit materials and other educational resources at eldridgestreet.org/education/

Programs about immigration, Jewish culture, synagogue Assisted by our own former New York City kid—Museum at architecture, and the surprising beauty of mathematics enticed Eldridge Street docent Gil Gordon—families joined us outside over 7,500 students to visit Eldridge Street in 2014. 400 of our to play all the old favorites. youngest visitors joined us for Shapes and Colors, Patterns and Light, and discovered just how pretty math can be. Adding, “Street games were the way a generation of subtracting, and counting their way around the synagogue, elementary school students identified shapes, found patterns, young people growing up in a crowded urban and tallied up as many golden stars as they could find. environment learned how to be both “My students kept raving about the field trip asking when competitive and cooperative with one’s peers. they can go back,” one teacher wrote. Eldridge Street educators You knew whether you won or lost, and you continued to work closely with our Teacher Advisory Committee in 2014 to provide museum programs that enrich the classroom would all be back on the street, after school, curriculum and meet the Common Core Standards. Enhancing eager to play again.” our website, we designed downloadable activities for teachers and students to further encourage the connection between —GIL GORDON, Museum Docent classroom learning and the museum visit. In December, families enjoyed a building wide treasure hunt SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMS inspired by When Mindy Saved Hanukkah, a delightful children’s The 2014 reviews are in and more than 1,200 enthusiastic book that takes place right here in the Eldridge Street students agree: our holiday program Celebrate with Us! is fun! Synagogue. Children and parents explored the sanctuary Every year in the winter and spring, Lower East Side school as they followed the story, found hidden treasures, made children flock to Eldridge Street to learn the stories of Hanukkah Hanukkah art, and said a sweet goodbye to 2014 with and Passover, and to share their own diverse holiday traditions. chocolate dreidel making. For many neighborhood children who have never visited a synagogue before, stepping inside this glorious sanctuary draws gasps of appreciation and surprise. One of our most popular school programs, Celebrate with Us! is designed to Kate Milford engage students ages four to eleven, and many return year after year. One second grade teacher wrote after her 2014 visit, “Students learned about the traditions of Hanukkah. They were part of the storytelling. They loved the singing and the doughnuts. It was a fun and educational program.”

PRESERVATION DETECTIVES FAMILY PROGRAM The Eldridge Street Synagogue and the history of the Lower East Side provide endless inspiration for our growing family programs—up 22% in attendance over last year. In 2014, we offered original scavenger hunts, neighborhood walking tours, and a new tradition: old time street games. Stickball, stoop ball, handball, hit the penny, jump rope, cards, and jacks—you name it, city kids played it, and last spring so did we!

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Public Programs Anna Shneyderman

LOST & FOUND MUSIC 2014 took us to lands near and far, musically at least! We kicked off the year with Plaid, Baroque and Klezmer, a program that perfectly personifies our Lost & Found Music series. Musician and scholar Adrianne Greenbaum researched and performed a program of baroque gypsy music, tracing musical influences of the East European Jewish community as they traveled west from Slovakia to Scotland. She was joined by Michal Alpert, Christopher Norman and David Greenberg.

We were the happy hosts for four CD release parties. In the summer saxophonist Paul Shapiro released Shofarot Verses, Kate Milford an exciting blend of soul and R&B with the Jewish tradition. ADULT LEARNING Musicians Remy Yulzari and Nadav Lev took the cover photo for The Museum’s Morris Kaplan Scholar in Residence and Adult their new album Azafea at Eldridge Street and came back in Learning Program continued to grow in 2014 with attendance October to celebrate its release with a concert that explored at 580 participants. Scholar in Residence Dr. Regina Stein once Sephardic musical traditions that joined jazz, klezmer, classical again offered popular weekly study classes challenging the and folk. Trumpeter Frank London was their special guest. group to ask modern questions about ancient subjects. December gave us a bounty of new music. Celebrating A spring class on “The Many Faces of the Torah,” has evolved twenty years together, Metropolitan Klezmer, led by drummer into a new regular feature of our adult learning program: a Eve Sicular, raised the roof with a rollicking concert celebrating weekly discussion based on the Torah portion. Urban historian the launch of their fifth album, “Mazel Means Good Luck.” We and Museum docent Barry Feldman led an exploration of ended the season celebrating a new CD by the new Yiddish Art Jewish migration and acclimation in New York and beyond, Trio, featuring Michael Winograd, Benjy Fox-Rosen and Patrick including Lower East Side sites important to varied immigrant Farrell. Their music is a blend of infectious traditional melodies, groups. In the fall, Barry followed up with a discussion of the new compositions, chamber music arrangements and waves of Irish, German, Eastern European, Italian, Hispanic and wonderful improvisation. The sanctuary danced that night. Asian immigrants to our constantly changing neighborhood, enhanced by a walking tour. Hanna Griff-Sleven, the Museum’s Special thanks to our concert sponsors: Helene and Steven Walsey, Walkers Shortbread, Hanna Griff-Sleven and Paul Sleven, and the Academy Director of Cultural Programs, guided a workshop in the art of for Jewish Religion. memoir writing, offering participants the opportunity to compose a family history. The adult education program will expand in 2015 to include classes every weekday and during the evening.

The Museum’s Morris Kaplan Scholar in Residence program is supported in part by The Alice Lawrence Foundation, Inc. with additional support provided by the Edouard Foundation, Marta Jo Lawrence, Epstein Teicher Philanthropies, The Marc Haas Foundation, Inc., The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Leo Rosner Foundation, Inc., New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council. Anna Shneyderman Anna Shneyderman

9 Visit a slideshow gallery of our festival at eldridgestreet.org/egg-rolls-egg-creams- empanadas-festival/

Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival

8,900 people flocked to the unique slice of Manhattan where Chinatown meets the Jewish Lower East Side for our 14th annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival on Sunday, June 8. The synagogue and our block on Eldridge Street were transformed into a cross-cultural smorgasbord showcasing the ways Jewish and Chinese cultural forms are unique and also intertwined. Chinese opera performers took the stage on the heels of a boisterous klezmer ensemble; a Hebrew and Chinese scribe sat side-by-side in the sanctuary; food demos focused on dumplings and kreplach; Chinese and Jewish mah jongg players compared notes on their different traditions; visitors got mini-Yiddish and Mandarin language lessons, kids decorated yarmulkes and made Chinese fans; and all enjoyed delicious kosher egg rolls and hand-made egg creams.

Our Program Director, Hanna Griff-Sleven, comments: “Starting at our very first festival back in 2000, we’ve experienced a deep feeling of community and joy that emanates from all the participants and festival goers—this is a New York Moment.”

The 2014 Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival was supported in part by the Manhattan Borough President’s Office Cultural Tourism Program (The Honorable Gale Brewer), National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the New York City Council, NYC & Co Foundation, and NYC Council District 1 (The Honorable Margaret Chin), and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Special thanks to Festival Sponsor National Trust Insurance Services, LLC, Brooklyn, and to Fox’s U-Bet and The Brooklyn Seltzer Boys for their kosher food donations. photos: Erikaphotos: Parry

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MUSIC All of a Kind Family Walking Tour Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival Plaid, Baroque and Klezmer: July 13 June 8 A Jewish Musical Odyssey Restoration Exploration Visitor Center Opening March 2 August 10 June 12 Triangle Fire: A Musical Tribute Chocolate Meltdown World of Our Zaydes Father’s Day with Lisa Gutkin, Pete Rushefsky September 21 Walking Tour and Rémy Yulzari Incredible Edible Sukkah June 15 March 23 October 5 Book Launch: New York City D’Var Shira: Music Meets Text at the All of a Kind Family Walking Tour in the Gilded Age with Esther Crain Red Sea, Concert and Spoken Word October 19 June 18 March 26 Election Day Bingo! Book Launch: Klezmer Travels the World November 4 The Acrobat: Selected Poems with the David Glukh Ensemble The Great Turkey Scavenger Hunt of Celia Dropkin May 18 November 23 July 16 CD Release Concert: When Mindy Saved Hanukkah Lower East Side Walking Tour Paul Shapiro’s Shofarot Verses Treasure Hunt July 20, August 17 June 19 December 14 Love and Courtship Walking Tour Rebetica Greek Music Klez for Kids with Klezmerfest August 10 August 13 December 25 Screening: All This Has Come Upon Us The Brothers Nazaroff with artist Mark Podwal September 4 TALKS, WALKS, FESTIVALS October 7 Jewish Baroque Music with AND MORE Open House New York the Concertino New York WinterGreen Festival: October 12 Chamber Ensemble A Tu B’Shvat Celebration Book Launch: A Question of Tradition: September 21 January 12 Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987, CD Release Concert: Azafea— Rugelach Making Workshop with Kathryn Hallerstein A Spanish Odyssey with January 14 and February 19 October 21 Remy Yulzari and Nadav Lev Love & Courtship: October 14 Lower East Side Walking Tour ADULT LEARNING The Singing Table: February 16 People of the Book: A Monthly Book Hasidic Songs, Stories and Nosh Making it New: Contemporary Novelists Club with Dr. Regina Stein October 26 and the Jewish Literary Tradition February 3–May 5 (4 sessions) Klezmer Jewels with 12th Night Klezmer March 9 War and Peace: From the Bible to November 23 Old Recipes for a New Generation Modern Israel with Dr. Regina Stein March 10 CD Release Concert: March 4–May 6 (8 sessions) Metropolitan Klezmer Passover Nosh & Stroll Parashat Hashavuah: Ancient Custom, April 6 December 15 New Twist with Dr. Regina Stein Lower East Side Walking Tour CD Release Concert: Yiddish Art Trio January 9–May 29 (20 sessions) April 17 December 21 Ethnicity, Place and Time on the Matzo and Macaroons Synagogue Tours Lower East Side with Barry Feldman April 17, 18, 20 FAMILY April 30–May 21 (4 sessions) My Father’s War Book Party Martin Luther King Day Family Special Modernity and the Bible with Alisse Waterston January 20 with Dr. Regina Stein April 27 Lights! Colors! Shadows? October 21–December 9 (8 sessions) Walls and Words: Exhibition A Ground Hog Day Scavenger Hunt The Many Faces of the Torah Featuring Artwork by Wallace Berman, February 2 with Dr. Regina Stein Kon Trubkovich and Tony Lewis Heroes, Villains and Hamentaschen October 23–December 18 (8 sessions) May 6–16 March 9 Immigrant Communities on the Yiddishe Mamas Mother’s Day Chocolate Plagues & Matzo Madness? Lower East Side with Barry Feldman Walking Tour Dayenu! October 22–November 19 (5 sessions) May 11 April 6 Memoir Writing Workshop Sacred Sites Open House Go Out and Play! Old Time Games with Dr. Hanna Griff-Sleven May 18 May 18 November 17–December 8 (4 sessions)

11 PS 107Q 2014 Groups and Visitors PS 110 PS 124 SYNAGOGUES & YOUTH GROUPS Temple Shalom PS 134 Adat Shalom Temple Sinai of Roslyn PS 137 Adath Emanu-El The Santa Monica Synagogue PS 140 Adath Israel Town and Village Synagogue PS 212 Bet Torah United Synagogue of PS 361—The Childrens Workshop School Beth El Hoboken Learning Center PS 397 Spruce Street School Beth Emet West London Synagogue Queens Metro High School Beth Shalom Westchester Reform Temple Ridgewood High School B’nai Israel River Valley High School Central Synagogue SCHOOLS Rodeph Sholom School Chai Center for Jewish Life Anchor Lutheran School School for Creative Judaism Community Synagogue from Monsey Bais Frima High School Shulamith High School for Girls Congregation Agudas Achim Bais Yaacov of Passaic Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan Congregation Ahavath Sholom Bais Yaakov D’Gur High School SSDS Greater Hartford Congregation Beth Or Bank Street School for Children Stuyvesant High School Congregation Beth Shalom Beit Rabban Day School Susanna E. Heiman Religious School Congregation B’nai Shalom Berkeley Carroll of Temple B’nai Torah Congregation B’nai Tzedek Berner Middle School Tanenbaum CHAT Congregation Kol Tikvah British International School Tarbut V’Torah Community Day School Congregation Sons of Israel of New York Temple Emanu-El Religious School Congregation Temple Sinai Capitol Hill Day School The Agnes Irwin School Greenwich Reform Synagogue Carney High School The Brooklyn Latin School Kehila Chadassah & Curious Kids The Town School Buber Youth Community DePaul High School Torah Academy of Bergen County Lakeside Synagogue Dwight School Trevor Day Ohab Zedek Earth School United Jewish School Port Washington Temple Youth Eastern Middle School Yeshiva Bais Mikroh at The Community Synagogue Faith House Manhattan Radlett Reform Synagogue Friends Seminary UNIVERSITIES Rodeph Sholom Golda Meir School Brookdale Community College Sandi Kupperman Learning Center— Greene Hill School Columbia University Institute for the Temple Beth El Growing up Green Charter School Study of Human Rights/ Shaaray Tefila Hebrew Academy of Alliance for Historical Dialogue Sinai Free Synagogue the Five Towsn and Riverdale and Accountability Program Summit Jewish Community Center International High School College of Staten Island, CUNY Temple Avodat Shalom at LaGuardia Community College Corpus Christi College Temple Berith Sholom Kadima Day School Eastern Michigan University Temple Beth Ahm Leo Baeck North Campus LaGuardia Community College, CUNY Temple Beth Ahm Yisrael Levine Academy Macaulay Honors College, CUNY Temple Beth Am MacDuffie School New York Community College Temple Beth David Manhattan Country School New York University Temple Beth Israel Montessori Middle School of Kentucky Nyack College Temple Beth Shalom Pleasant Grove High School Pace University Temple Beth Sholom PS 1 Pratt Institute Temple Beth Tikvah PS 2 Princeton University Language Project Temple Beth Torah PS 19 Queens College—College Now Program Temple Chayai Shalom PS 20 Rutgers University Temple Emanuel PS 25 SUNY FIT Temple Emanu-El of Closter PS 42 Touro College Temple Israel of Northern Westchester PS 87 University of Cincinnati Temple Judea of Bucks County PS 94 – The Spectrum School University of Delaware Temple Ner Tamid PS 102 Yeshiva University

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OTHER GROUPS JCC of Middlesex County The Upper Class 92nd Street Y Jewish Family & Children’s Service Tomorrows Tours AHRC of Greater Philadelphia Tours By Design/West Hartford CT Bernard Betel Centre Jewish Historical Society Continuing Education Big Apple Lansmann Tours of Central Jersey UFTWF—United Federation Bloomingdale Aging In Place Jewish Journey Project of Teachers Retiree Program Camp Judea Ken Jewish Community Center United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Central Queens Y Kineret Youth Program Village of East Hills Cuisine Arts LLC Lions of Judah—UJA Federation Senior Activities Committee Darkhei Noam Little Star of Broome Street Walks of New York DC 37 Early Childcare Center Westchester JCC— Digital Photo Academy Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy Global Jewish Connections Educational Alliance Manhattan Multicultural Westchester Senior Group Explore New York Summer Youth Program Yiddish Book Center Guides Association of New York City MC Productions (GANYC) Middle Village Adult Center MUSEUMS AND Gilder Lehrman Institute Moishe House CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS of American History NYC & Co Center for Jewish History— Greenwich Village Society Pathways to Graduation Junior Scholars Program for Historic Preservation Port Washington Public Library Jewish Children’s Museum HANAC Ravenswood Senior Center Raritan Photographic Society Long Island Museum HASC—The Hebrew Academy Ray’s Food and Walking Tours Museum of Chinese in America for Special Children REAL Museum of Jewish Heritage Henry Street Settlement— RM Tours New York Transit Museum Personalized Recovery SAGE The Rubin Museum Orientated Services Sandy Pensak Book Club The Tenement Museum High Mountain Institute Alumni Self Help Community Services, Inc. YIVO IOPE—EAST/Go West Tours Shalom Brooklyn JASA—Trump 4 Us Strategic Hebrew JASA Club 76 SWAN—Shuang Wen Academy Network JASA Dreiser Senior Center The Flow of History

13 “Central to the Museum’s mission is a deep respect for those who have contributed to America’s culture and heritage.” —Bonnie Dimun, Executive Director “Central to the Museum’s mission is a deep respect for those who have contributed 2014 Gala to America’s culture and heritage.” —Bonnie Dimun, Executive Director

Jonathan Mechanic, Michael Weinstein, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Art Shamsky, Ira Berkow, Mariano Rivera, Arlene Goldfarb, Bonnie Dimun Above: Bonnie Dimun, Walt “Clyde” Frazier photos: Leo Sorel Leo photos: Steven Walsey, Mallory and Elliot Silverstein, Helene Walsey, Romy Silverstein Jacquelyn Silver, Rhonda Silver, Bob Silver, Debby Klein Batelli, Anne Math

Leading figures from New York City’s business, philanthropic stands as a testament to the countless immigrants to and sports communities supported the Museum at Eldridge America and the values that they hold dear: respect for Street at a gala honoring “Champions of the Spirit” Mariano community, religious freedom, and the opportunity to build Rivera, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, and Art Shamsky, and Pulitzer better lives for their children and their children’s children. Prize-winning sports writer Ira Berkow. The gala took place Our honorees this year serve as models for all Americans. on November 3, 2014 at Gotham Hall in New York City, and Their deep commitment to education, to religious freedom, included cocktails, dinner and a live and silent auction. to philanthropy, and their accomplishments, professionalism “Central to the Museum’s mission is a deep respect for those and brilliance on and off the field inspire us all.” The who have contributed to America’s culture and heritage,” said Museums gala raised $450,000 for our educational and Museum at Eldridge Street’s Executive Director Bonnie cultural activities. Dimun.” Our landmark site, the Eldridge Street Synagogue,

15 Millen Magese, Bonnie Dimun, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Abby and Valerie Doneger, Mariano Rivera, Arlene and Morris Goldfarb Michael Weinstein 2014 FUNDRAISING REPORT

Judith Zabar From Eva Brune, Vice President for Institutional Advancement Preserving and sharing Jewish heritage is at the heart of the Museum at Eldridge Street’s mission. We’d like to thank our more than 1,900 donors in 2014 for their $1,164,871 in gifts which make possible the Museum’s myriad cultural and educational programs. Of this amount, $96,343 was contributed by first-time donors to the Museum in 2014: welcome and thank you! Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor Lori Moore, Jeffrey Wilks, Amy Stein-Milford Contributions from individuals, foundations, corporations, and government sources represent more than 83% of the Museum’s income. We are grateful to all of our donors for their commitment to sharing American-Jewish heritage, maintaining the Museum at Eldridge Street as a site that examines Jewish life, culture, art, history and literature. As author Sally Berkovic noted poignantly in a recent article, “Caring for a synagogue…requires manpower and funds. A synagogue is known as a Beit Knesset—a house of gathering for the community—but if there is no community, Matthew Ezersky, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Lorinda Ash Inger and Mark Mirsky then who is it for?” With the support of all of our donors, the Museum at Eldridge Street is alive with community and the Eldridge Street Synagogue is a beacon for Jews and those interested in Jewish heritage. Each year, the Museum at Eldridge Street hosts a major fundraising event celebrating a year of accomplishment and success. Special thanks to thank Gala Co-Chairs Michael Weinstein and Judy and Stanley Zabar, and the entire Board of Directors for their leadership in raising $450,000 through this event in 2014.

We pay respects to long-time donors Miriam Jacobs and Freda R. Resnik, who Bonnie Dimun, Ira Berkow, Roberta Brandes Gratz, Rebecca Gratz each made bequests to the Museum in 2014 as part of our 1887 Society Steve Greenberg and Steven Sitrin program. To date, the 1887 Society has received 20 bequests totaling $563,467. For a complete listing of estate gifts, please see the Donations Page at the end of this Annual Report.

Especially, we would like to thank a major Anonymous donor, The David Berg Foundation, Epstein Teicher Philanthropies, The Morris and Arlene Goldfarb Family Foundation, Aaron and Marion Gural Foundation, The Marc Haas Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, The Alice Lawrence Foundation, Inc., The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Inc., The Leo Rosner Foundation, The Silver Family Foundation, Valley National Bank, The Weinstein Foundation, and Judy and Stanley Zabar for their 2014 leadership gifts.

photos: Leo Sorel Leo photos: Thank you for your support. To join this community of committed donors, Jan Jalenak, Marilyn Fleming, Etty Moyal, Suzy Boshwit, Barry Wine please contact 212.219.0888 x202 or [email protected]. 16 2014 Contributors

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LEADERSHIP CIRCLE: GOLD CIRCLE SILVER CIRCLE Gifts of $50,000 and over Gifts of $10,000–$24,999 Gifts of $5,000–$9,999 The Marc Haas Foundation Anonymous Lorinda Ash Institute of Museum and Library Services Suzy B. Boshwit The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation The Alice Lawrence Foundation, Inc. Feil Family Foundation Sarah and Tal Michael Chitayat New York State Council on the Arts with Jonathan Mechanic/ Elias A. Cohen Foundation, Inc. the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson William and Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust and the New York State Legislature The Goldie Anna Charitable Trust The Edouard Foundation, Inc. Michael Weinstein/The Weinstein Foundation The Hyde and Watson Foundation Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Family Foundation PLATINUM CIRCLE The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Inc. Epstein Teicher Philanthropies Gifts of $25,000–$49,999 Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation Roberta Brandes Gratz The David Berg Foundation, Inc. Lori and David Moore Family HUB International Northeast Bonnie and Tony Dimun National Endowment for the Arts Samuel and Anna Jacobs Foundation, Inc. The Morris and Arlene Goldfarb Diane Rosenstein and Paul H. Rich Peter Lee Family Foundation Leo Rosner Foundation Eve and Stephen Milstein Paula and Jeffrey Gural/ Stainman Family Foundation Inc. NYC & Company Foundation, Inc. Aaron and Marion Gural Foundation Untitled, LP Lonnie and Thomas Schwartz City of New York Department of Cultural Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation Charitable Foundation Affairs in partnership with the New York Spielman Family Foundation City Council/The Honorable Margaret Chin Jane and Frances Stein Foundation The Silver Family Foundation Valley National Bank Helene and Steven Walsey Vornado Realty Trust/David Greenbaum Judith and Stanley Zabar

BRONZE CIRCLE Gifts of $1,000–$4,999 Nanci and Sammy Aaron Pamela and Richard Ader Anonymous Bergman Family Fund Edward Blank The Ernest Bogen Philanthropic Fund Ira Breite Melva Venezky Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy Eric Cohler The Crystal Family Foundation Ide and David Dangoor Paula and Brian Daniels Valerie and Abbey Doneger/

Arnaud Barey Arnaud Barey Henry Doneger Associates, Inc. 17 The Fertel Foundation Claudia and Sheldon Hirshon Anna and Nathan Flax Sally and Roger Hoffman Foundation, Inc. J.E. Jones Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor The Kandell Fund Hana L. Fuchs Alyce and Steven Kaplan Naomi Gat Edwin A. Margolius Gary Gershfield Nina Mogilnik Lyla and Howard Glener Lawrence Orenstein Ellen and Neil Gold Susan and Alan J. Patricof Jennifer F. and Alan S. Goldfarb Randy Polumbo Alyssa and Cliff Greenberg Marleen Meyers and Myrna and Steven D. Greenberg Stanley Rogovin Jeffrey A. Grossman Martin and Florence Rothman Stella and Charles Guttman Donor Advised Fund Foundation, Inc. David L. Schiff Sandra and Leonard Haiken Ira Schulman Marc Heller/CIT Trade Finance The Peter Daniel Seligman Becky and Ike Herschkopf Foundation Peter and Stacy Hochfelder Debra and Gary M. Soffer Charitable Foundation Karen Freedman and Nathaniel Jacobson Roger Weisberg Jewish Community Norman I. Weisman Youth Foundation David Wroclawski The Katcher Family Foundation Nora and Barry Yood Philip W. Kirsh The Sarah and Harold Zalesch Eugene M. Lang Fund, Inc. Marcia and Neil Lawner Sherry Jacobson and Dalia and Laurence C. Leeds, Jr. Eugene L. Zuriff Leslie and Jim Levy The Samuel M. Levy Gifts of $250 and over Family Foundation Hirschel B. Abelson Robin and Jay L. Lewis Anonymous (2)

The Malkin Fund, Inc. Lawner Neil O. Joel Barish The Honorable Gale Brewer/ Susan and Bruce Berger Manhattan Borough Jacqueline Schnabel Shimon Wolf/Wolf Maryles Cynthia C. Wainwright President’s Office Harshad Shah/ & Associates LLC and Stephen Berger Steven and Toby Mayer Leyland Group LLC Ray Kurdziel and Howard Zar Roberta Berken Charity Fund Caroline Sheinbaum Beth and Scott Zucker Tami and Mark Berman Jay Mazur/21st Century ILGWU Donna and Barry Slotnick Catherine Cahill and Heritage Fund Ashley Steinhart/ Gifts of $500 and over William Bernhard Lisa and Wayne S. Miller/ Lowenstein Sandler LLP Barbra and Frank Arnold Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Berni G-III Apparel Group Laurie and Sy Sternberg Rene Bloch Foundation Debra and Peter B. Berry Y.H. Mirzoeff & Sons Stoller Family Charitable Roberta and Stanley M. Bogen Louis H. Blumengarten Foundation Inc. Lead Annuity Trust Irwin A. Cantor Family Fund Jenny Carchman and National Trust Insurance Services Sun Hill Foundation Lisa B. and Edmund Cohen Seth Bomse New York City Department for Lola and Leonard Tanzer Martin Elias Bobbi and Barry Coller the Aging/The Honorable Judy and Warren Tenney Donald B. Epstein Raymond Connors Donna M. Corrado Foundation David A. Feldman Joan K. Davidson Maria and Michael Osheowitz Michael Tuch Foundation, Inc. Glendale Foundation, Inc. Essig Enright Family Foundation Maria and Vincent Pascal The Eli and Arlene Wachtel The Goodman Family Clarice Feinman Elliott C. Rosch Charitable Foundation Charitable Fund Gloria and Stan Fishfader Philip J. Rosenthal/ Sharon and Joel Waller Sylvia G. Gordon Vicki Fleisher Global Coverage, Inc. Karen and Rick White Anita W. Graber The Anne and Gerald Freedman Barbara and John Samuelson Linda Filer and Bradford Wiley II Jay Bruno and William F. Gratz Charitable Foundation, Inc. Jackie and David Schiro Jill and Hank Grishman Deborah S. Freedman

18 Maralyn Friedman Susan and Eric Baelen Eileen and Howard Cotton Sarah A. Gelber Phyllis H. and Norma and Paul G. Barash Esther E. Crain Rabbi David Gelfand/ Seymour Gartenberg Anita and William Baron Barbara and Frederick Cronin Temple Israel of NYC GE Foundation Stanley L. Barrish Linda and Teo Dagi Martin R. Geller Michael Giordano/ Nan Bases Jessica and Andrew P. Davis Laura Gerchik Paper Enterprises Sandy Beck Charles Dimston Adelle Gersten The Jane and Lawrence Gould Carol and Terry Becker Ira Donewitz The Honorable Charitable Fund Carole Behrman Doris and Leo Dreyfuss Ruth Bader Ginsburg Susan Steinhauser and Janine Beichman Martin Dvorkin Randy Globus Daniel Greenberg Martin M. Bell Barry, Hilit, Tillirose, and Monica Gold Judy and Stuart Hershon Marilyn Belous August Edelstein Stacey and Jeff Goldfarb David Himelberg Foundation Gloria Berkenstat Freund Howard S. Edelstein Arlene Goldman Judy D. and Zachary I. Hodes Rosalie and Larry Berman Henry L. Ehrlich Lucy Goldman Fund of the JCF Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Horowitz Michael Berman Natalie and Michael Eigen Rachel Goldman Janice and Lewis Kampel Murray Berman David Eisenberg Linda J. and Richard A. Goldstein Nora and Steven Kandel Lori Zeltser and Ann and Howard M. Eisenstodt Stuart Goldstein Sivia Kaye Charitable Gift Fund Leonard Berman Peg Emple Gilbert Gordon Penny M. and David J. Klein Arleen Levine Bernstein Howard G. Epstein Paul Gordon William Klein and David Bernstein Asher Etkin Paul Gordoy Joann and Robert Todd Lang Gladys B. Bernstein Sharon and Michael Falcone Gail P. and Edward G. Green Ann and Melvin J. Levy Frances and Myron Berrick Georgia Feingold Paul Greenberg Tina Lubin Debra Berry Edith Gross and Yoseph Feit The Burton G. and Anne C. Cabot Marks Marc E. Berson Howard Feldman Greenblatt Foundation, Inc. Joanna Mastroianni Stephen Bigman Alan Ferster Ira J. Greenblatt Faith Menken Karen and Leslie Blacksburg Robert E. Fidoten Dena and Abraham Greenstein Matthew and Amy Stein Milford Joan and Charles Blanksteen Hilda and David Fins Laurel and Steven Griff Nina Allyn Moinester Joan and David Blitz Sheila Fishman Melanie H. Grisham Laurence J. Murphy Erika Bloomfield Sander A. Flaum Charitable Trust Barbara Grodd Saul Raw Lois D. Blumenfeld Marilyn Fleming Doris Ruth and Alan Groh Sheila and Lester Robbins Bruce Bolter The Forest Family Paul L. Gross Philanthropic Fund Amy Boorstein Foundation, Inc. Mark A. Grossbard Melvin K. Roseman William S. Boorstein Charles A. Forma Philip J. Hahn Foundation Murray Rosen Harriet Boxer Jane Frank The Hammerman Sheri and James Rosenfeld Tammy Brainin Edith and Sol Freedman Charitable Trust Bonnie and Mordechai Rozanski Norma and Melvin Breite Joe-Tom Easley and Sarah and Joel L. Handelman Esther Samet Betsy Broder Peter Freiberg David J. Hellerstein Susan and Norman Schulman Elaine and Michael Broida Lisa Friedlander Dave Henig Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation Fran Brooks Ephraim Garber The Herman Family Alisse Waterston Brout Family Fund Dr. Harold S. Yood Phyllis E. and Irwin L. Browarsky The Gellin Zalaznick Barbara Brown Foundation Inc. Sandy and Allen Brune Andrea Burger Gifts of $100 and over David Burgin Elie Abemayor Nancy Burstein Amy B. Abrahams Andrew Byrne Carole and Israel Abramcyk Joshua R. Cammaker Arthur S. Abramson Erin Cantor Mindy Lang and Ken Andrusko Jules Chametzky Ken Marks/Ann Service Jackie Chan-Brown Corporation Bette Cohen Anonymous (3) Ruth and Edward Collier The David Aronow Norah Colton Foundation Inc. Barbara Bell Cook Roberta Ashkin Jeffrey Cosiol Eugene GannonEugene 19 Ralph Hillman Shelly Hirsch Nitai Klein Bernice and Jack S. Hoffinger Hollander Foundation Allan A. Horland Paula and Kenneth Horn Allisse Waterston and Howard Horowitz Robert Vincent Huber Mrs. Taube Import Rose and Michael Jacobsohn Cara and Leonard Kagan Frances A. and Kenneth M. Kahn Bernard Kalb Barbara and Steven Kantor Rita and Henry Kaplan Foundation Karasik Family Fund of the JCF Barbara S. Karlin Stanley Katz Alyce H. Kaufman Robert A. Kavesh Betty and Howard Kerpen Marc Klapholz Carol Klein Patti and Harvey Klein Roberta and Melvyn Klein Patricia Klemz Lynn and Morris Kletzkin Janet T. Klion Vivian and Stuart Koenig Ella Kohn Carol and Elliott Kominsky Sevilla and Aaron H. Kommel Judith and Martin Konikoff Eli Kopelman Marc Korashan Claire and Richard Korn Roberta Koza Benjamin Kracauer/Archimuse Barbara and Seymour Krasner Alan C. Krieger Carol H. and Robert D. Krinsky Naomi and Paul Kronish David F. Kuck Jonathan Myles Kushner Ruth Laibson Berton M. Lapidus Linda and Sherwin Lener Sondra S. and Stanley A. Leon Donald Levin Linda Levitt The Lorber Foundation

20 Fern and Lew Lowenfels Lori L. Cohen and Carol and Steven Sokol 1887 Society Bonnie and Lloyd Lowinger Christopher H. Rothko Laurence T. Sorkin Estate of Leona K. Adler Renee Luebke Martha and John M. Rozett Katherine Sperling Estate of Lucie Blau Morris Mansfield Jill Sacks Allla Spiegel Estate of David J. Fox Claire and Edward Margolies Greer Rivlin Saltzman Henry M. Spinelli Estate of Rose Freeman Jacob Margolies Jane and Martin Salwen Dr. and Mrs. Morton E. Spitzer Estate of Blanche K. Goldberg Lori Zabar and Mark Mariscal Jill W. and Lawrence Sandberg Regina Stein Estate of Fanny Goldfarb Bernard Martin Nicholas Santora Sharon L. Stein Estate of Samuel N. Goldstein Silvia Marx Michael Sarver Melvin A. Stein Estate of Peryl Gottesman Anne and Stephen Math Charlotte Barnard and Sylvia and David Steiner Julius W. Graber Memorial Fund Rita and Robert Matthews Robert Sawyer Charitable Trust Estate of Lillian Gross Richard E. McGrath Howard Schain Gary Steinkohl Estate of Stella Freeman Harmon Carole and David Metzger Annette Sally Schecter Sandy L. Stern Estate of Miriam Jacobs Timothy L. Michel Eugene Schiller William H. Strange Estate of Louis Katzowitz Paula Michtom Gloria, Dorothy and Marilyn and Alan Tannenbaum Estate of Emma Landau Susan and Allan Miller David Schulberg Ziv Tavor Estate of Elaine Lowell/ Jennie Parnes Miller Helen Schulberg Susan W. Tofias Lowell Trust Sandra Milles Jeffrey Schulberg Deborah S. and Michael Troner Estate of Selma Merkin Inger and Mark Mirsky Harvey Schulman Paul Tuchman Estate of Harriet Messinger Maxine L. Myers Harvey Schussler Tuchman, Korngold, Weiss, Estate of Beatrice Palestin Ruth Nadel Rise Schwab Lippman & Gelles Estate of Freda R. Resnik Anne and Victor S. Navasky Daniel Schwartz Ruth and Stuart Turner Estate of Ada Rovinsky Susan Negro Elliot Schwartz Marcia F. and Richard S. Volpert Estate of Matilda Gross Scheiner Winifred G. and Gustave Newman Ethan, Julie Bookbinder, Eileen Wilk Walsh Estate of Meyer Smolen Steven A. Okin and Jon Schwartz Marian M. Warden Fund Estate of Elvira and Herbert Weller Philip Oppenheimer Hermine M. Seidenberg Ira Warren Estate of Zelda W. Werner Harry Otterman Jay W. Seligman Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wasserman Estate of Alexander Wincberg Sylvia Parnes Teresa Taylor and Art Shamsky Beth Berman Wechsler Michael Paston Lina Ann Shane Beverly Weinstein Public Support Joan Lee and Richard Perfit Nancy Rubenstein and Max Weintraub The Honorable Margaret Chin/ Cheryl and Lloyd Pine Robert Y. Shapiro Elaine and Robert D. Weiss New York City Council Ros and Michael Plosker Michael L. and Amy and Robert J. Weller Institute for Museum and Steven Pollack Vivien Brodkin Shelanski Penny and Ted Williams Library Services Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Pollen Mr. and Mrs. Dror D. Shnayer David A. and Shoshanna The Honorable Scott Stringer/ Lauren K. Popkoff Rhonda and David Siegel Wingate Foundation Manhattan Borough Sidney Lee Posel Sharon and Jeffrey R. Silver Lewis Wirshba President’s Office Betsy Posner Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Silver Janine B. Yamamoto National Endowment for the Arts Susan and Gerald Post Vivian and Meyer Silver Martin Zeiger New York City Department Rabbi Joseph Potasnik Elliot Silverstein Meyer Zinn for the Aging LaVerne L. Prager Allen J. Simonson Heddy J. Zirin New York City Department of Rabbi Marshal and Laurie Press Susan and Gary Singer Penni S. Zola Cultural Affairs in partnership Preston Family Trust Barrett N. Sinowitz with the New York City Council Cynthia Rawitch Mr. and Mrs. Robert Siskin New York State Council on the Elizabeth and Eugene Renkin Tzvi Sitzer Arts with the support of Fred M. Richman Douglas A. Skolnick Governor Andrew Cuomo and Stephen L. Richmond Stella Skura the New York State Legislature Gail R. Gremse and David S. Rose Hanna Griff Sleven New York State Assembly/ Kelly A. Rosen and Paul Sleven The Honorable Sheldon Silver Gay Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Abraham J. Small New York State Office of Parks, Leona Z. Rosenberg Mardi and David T. Smith Recreation and Historic Barbara Minakakis and Joannie C. and James C. Smith Preservation Marian Rosenberg Willard J. Smith Monroe H. Rosner SO Charitable Trust

21 2014 INCOME BY SOURCE PERCENT OF TOTAL

TOURS/ ADMISSION 11% FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS 21% GOVERNMENT 16%

INDIVIDUALS (INCLUDES DIRECT MAIL, OTHER NET OF EXPENSES) EARNED 20% INCOME 6% GALA (NET OF EXPENSES) 26%

2014 EXPENSES BY SOURCE PERCENT OF TOTAL

PROGRAMS 37%

GALA 7%

FUNDRAISING 8%

RESTORATION & BUILDING 39% MANAGEMENT & GENERAL 9%

22 How You Can Help

Kate Milford Erika Parry

DONATE Your tax-deductible contribution supports the care and maintenance of the Eldridge Street Synagogue, a National Historic Landmark, and cultural and educational programs for people of all backgrounds. Special opportunities include gifts to honor or memorialize loved ones, our Glass Block Dedication Tribute Wall permanent naming opportunities, and our 1887 Society planned giving program. Learn more: 212.219.0888 x202 or email [email protected]

VOLUNTEER Become a docent and share the story of our landmark building with people from around the world. Join our student internship program and be a part of the day-to-day operations of one of New York City’s leading Jewish museums. Learn more: 212.219.0302 x5 or email [email protected]

CELEBRATE Celebrate your lifecycle event, family reunion or important occasion at our magnificent National Historic Landmark. Learn more: 212.219.0888 x204 or email [email protected]

SPREAD THE WORD Bring your friends, family, colleagues and out-of-town visitors. Recommend a group visit to your house of worship, club, community center or school. Learn more: 212.219.0302 x5 or email [email protected]

CONNECT @museumateldridgestreet @eldridgestreet @museumateldridgestreet www.museumateldridgestreet/blog Neil O. Lawner Neil O.

23 BOARD OF DIRECTORS STAFF DOCENTS Shelley Rones Joan Rosenblatt Roberta Berken Michael Weinstein, Chairman Bonnie Dimun, Executive Director Janis Ruden Master Docent Lorinda Ash, President Amy Stein-Milford, Deputy Director Amy Salant Harriet Benjamin Kenneth L. Stein, Vice President Eva Bruné, Vice President Erynn Sarno Mara Bernstein for Institutional Advancement Mitchell Schecter Paul Rich, Treasurer Melvyn Birnbaum Joyce Shenker Mark Mirsk, Secretary Courtney Byrne-Mitchell Bette Cohen David Silver Director of Visitor Services Clarice Feinman Roberta Brandes Gratz, Founder Maxine Simson Hanna Griff-Sleven Barry Feldman and President Emeritus Susan Slater Director of Cultural Programs Jane Frank Esta Stein Lisa M. Africk and Internships Naomi Gat Miryam Wasserman Suzy Boshwit Lyla Glener Judy Greenspan Sylvia Weiner Mildred Caplow* Rochelle Goldstein Director of Education Zoe Yates Eric Cohler Gil Gordon Nancy Johnson, Archivist Barry Yood Ester R. Fuchs Anita Graber Rachel Serkin Henry Zimring Arlene Goldfarb Barbara Greenberg Education Associate Jeffrey R. Gural Lee Greenberg INTERNS Arthur Korant Sharon Stein Anna Hessa Jonathan L. Mechanic Visitor Services Associate Barbara Horn Taylor Baker David Moore Walter Hernandez Leah Horowitz Brandeis University Richard Rabinowitz Building Maintenance Jan Kampel Alexandra Bonds Rhonda Silver Oscar Perez, Building Manager Herb Kass Meredith Carroll David Sitzer Linda Katz Grinnell College Michele Cohn Tocci Sandra Kleinhandler Rebecca Galpern Tai Chin Tung Jenna Kronenberg Baruch College Steven Walsey Roberta Koza Luna Goldberg Jeffrey S. Wilks Patti Myers Hampshire College Howard Zar Liz Offenbach Sarah Hong Seth Offenbach Eugene Lang College/ *deceased Gitty Prus The New School Anna Shneyderman Eugene Lang College/ The New School Ellie Schwartz Yeshiva University Laszlo Regos Erika Parry 24 Erika Parry The Museum at Eldridge Street, a non-sectarian cultural organization in Lower Manhattan, is preserving and interpreting the historic 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, a magnificent National Historic Landmark that re-opened in December 2007 after an extensive, $20 million restoration. Since then, more than 260,000 people from around the world have participated in tours, cultural events, exhibits and educational programs that present the history and heritage of this historic house of worship and the Jewish immigrant community of the Lower East Side.

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