Month: December 2020

Jewish Museums

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Museums are Entry Points into the Jewish Experience

These Museums, around the globe, provide glimpses into the Jewish Historical Experience .They foster the idea put forth by the historian Ellis Rivkin:

The goal of the Jewish community must be the individual who “recognizes that Judaism has been the manifold expression of human beings struggling and wrestling with their human problems, and he therefore can enter into the thoughts and feelings of each historical moment and come forth enriched.”

 “free to draw on the riches of our past we need no longer be slaves to it. Judaism, for us, is not only a past, but a future.“

CountryCityMuseumLinkFocus
AustraliaSydneySydney Jewish Museumhttps://sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au
AustraliaVictoriaJewish Museum of Australiahttps://www.jewishmuseum.com.au
AustriaEisenstadtAustrian Jewish Museum -Österreichische Jüdische Museumhttps://www.ojm.at
AustriaHohenemsJudisches Museum Hohenemshttps://www.jm-hohenems.at
AustriaVienaJewish Museum Vienna - Judisches Museum der Stadt Wienhttp://www.jmw.at
BelarusVitebskMarc Chagall Museumhttp://chagal.vitebsk.museum.by/enMarc Chagall
BelgiumBrusselsJewish museum of Belgiumhttps://www.mjb-jmb.org
BrazilSao PauloMuseu Judaico de Sao Paulohttp://novo.museujudaicosp.org.br
CanadaNew BrunswickSaint John Jewish Historical Museumhttp://jewishmuseumsj.com
CanadaTorontoJewish Canadian Military Musemhttp://www.jcmm.ca
CanadaVancouver, BCJewish Museum and Archives of British Canadahttps://jewishmuseum.ca
CanadaWinnipegJewish Heritage Centre of Western Canadahttps://www.jhcwc.org
Czech RepublicPragueJewish Museum in Praguehttps://www.jewishmuseum.cz
DenmarkCopenhagenDanish Jewish Museum - Dansk Jodisk Museumhttps://jewmus.dk/dansk-joedisk-museum/
EnglandLondonBen Uri Gallery and Museumhttp://benuri.org
EuropeHistoric Synagogues of Europehttps://historicsynagogueseurope.org/synagogue-home
FranceBouxwillerMusee Judeo-Alsacien de Bouxwilerhttp://judaisme.sdv.fr/today/musee/
FranceParisMuseum of Jewish Art and History - Musee d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaismehttps://www.mahj.org
FranceNiceMARC CHAGALL NATIONAL MUSEUMhttps://musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr/chagall/Marc Chagall
GermanyAugsburgJewish Culture Museum - Judisches Kulturmuseumhttps://www.jkmas.de
GermanyBerlinNeue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicumhttps://centrumjudaicum.de
GermanyBerlinJewish Museum Berlin - Judaisches Museumhttps://www.jmberlin.de
GermanyButtenheimLevi Strauss Museumhttp://www.levi-strauss-museum.de
GermanyCreglingenCreglingen Jewish Museumhttp://www.stiftung-jmc.de
GermanyDorstenJewish Museum of Westphalia - Judisches Museum Westfalenhttps://www.jmw-dorsten.de
GermanyEmmendingenJudisches Museum Emmendingenhttps://www.juedisches-museum-emmendingen.de
GermanyFrankfurtJewish Museum Frankfurt -Judisches Museum https://www.juedischesmuseum.de
GermanyFurthJewish Museum of Franconiahttps://www.juedisches-museum.org
GermanyMunichAssociation of European Jewish Museumshttps://www.aejm.org
GermanyMunichJewish Museum Munich -Judisches Museum Munschrnhttps://www.juedisches-museum-muenchen.de
GermanyRendsburgJudisches Museum Rendsburghttps://jmrd.de/de/startseite
GreeceAthensJewish Mudesum of Greecehttps://www.jewishmuseum.gr/en/
GreeceCreteEtz Hayyim Synagogue, Haniahttp://www.etz-hayyim-hania.org
GreeceThessalonikiJewish Museum of Thessalonikihttp://www.jmth.gr
HungaryBudapestHungarian Jewish Museum and Archiveshttps://www.milev.hu/news.html
IrelandDublinIrish-Jewish Museumhttps://jewishmuseum.ie
ItalyBolognaJewish Museum of Bologna - Museo Ebraica di Bolognahttps://www.museoebraicobo.it
ItalyFerraraMuseo Ebraico di Ferrarahttp://ww3.comune.fe.it/museoebraico/
ItalyFlorenceJewish Museum of Florence - Museo Ebraico di Firenzehttps://www.firenzebraica.it/museum-and-synagogue/?lang=en
ItalyRomeJewish Museum of Rome - Museo Ebraico di Romahttps://museoebraico.roma.it/?lang=en
ItalySoragnaJewish Museum of Soragna - Museo Ebraico di Soragnahttp://www.museoebraicosoragna.net
LatviaRiga"Jews in Latvia" Museumhttp://www.jewishmuseum.lv
LithuaniaVilniusVilna Gaon Jewish State Museumhttps://www.jmuseum.lt
MexicoMuseo Historico Judio Y del Holocaustohttp://www.museojudiomexico.com.mx
MonoccoCasablancaMusee du Judaisme Marocainhttp://www.jewishmuseumcasa.com
NetherlandsAmsterdamJewish Historical Museum - Joods Historisch Museumhttps://jck.nl/en/
NetherlandsAmsterdamPortugeuese Synagoguehttps://jck.nl/nl/locatie/portugese-synagoge
NorwayOsloOslo Jewish Museum -Jodisk Museumhttps://www.jodiskmuseumoslo.no
PolandKrakowGalicia Jewish Museumhttps://galiciajewishmuseum.org
PolandKrakowOld Synagogue - Sara Synagogahttp://muzeumkrakowa.pl/oddzialy/stara-synagoga
PolandWarszawMuseum of the History of Polish Jewshttps://www.polin.pl/en
PolandWarszawaJewish Historical Institutehttps://www.jhi.pl
RussiaMoscowJewish Museum and Tolerance Centerhttps://www.jewish-museum.ru/en/
SlovakiaBratislavaMuseum of Jewish Culture, Slovak Jewish Heritagehttp://www.slovak-jewish-heritage.org
South AfricaCape TownSouth African Jewish Museumhttps://www.sajewishmuseum.org.za
SpainRed de Judeira - Network of Spanish Jewish Quartershttps://redjuderias.org
SpainCordobaHouse of Sepharad- Casa de Sefarardhttp://www.casadesefarad.es
SpainGironaMuseum of the History of the Jews of Gironahttps://www.girona.cat/call/eng/museu.php
SwedenStockholmJewish Museum in Stockholm - Judiska Museet I Stockholmhttps://judiskamuseet.se
SwitzerlandBaselJewish Museum of Switzerland - Judischen Museum der Schweizhttps://www.juedisches-museum.ch/en/
TurkeyIstanbulJewish Museum of Turkeyhttps://www.muze500.com/index.php?lang=en
U.K.GlasgowScottish Jewish Archives Centrehttps://www.sjac.org.uk
U.K.LondonBen Uri Gallery, Jewish Museum of Arthttps://benuri.org
U.K.LondonJewish Museum of Londonhttps://jewishmuseum.org.uk
U.K.ManchesterManchester jewish Museumhttps://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com
UkraineOdessaJewish Museum of Odessahttps://english.migdal.org.ua/museum/
USAJewish-American Hall of Famehttp://www.amuseum.org/jahf/
USAAnchorage, AKAlaska jewish Historical Museumhttps://www.alaskajewishmuseum.com
USAAtlanta, GAJewish Heritage Museumhttps://www.thebreman.org
USABaltimore, MDJewish Museum of Marylandhttps://jewishmuseummd.org
USABeachwood, OHMaltz Museum of Jewish Heritagehttp://www.maltzmuseum.org
USABerkeley, CAMagnes Collection of Jewish Art and Lifehttps://magnes.berkeley.edu
USACincinnati, OHSkirball Museum in Cincinnatihttp://huc.edu/research/museums/skirball-museum-cincinnati
USADenver, COCouncil of Jewish Museumshttp://www.cajm.net
USADenver, COMizel Jewish Art and Culture Museumhttps://mizelmuseum.org
USAJackson, MSMuseum of the Southern Jewish Experiencehttps://msje.org
USALos Angeles, CARhodes Jewish Museumhttps://www.rhodesjewishmuseum.org
USALos Angeles, CASkirball Cultural Centerhttps://www.skirball.org
USAMiami Beach, FLJewish Museum of Floridahttps://jmof.fiu.edu
USAMilwaukee, WIJewish Museum of Milwaukeeehttps://jewishmuseummilwaukee.org
USANew York, NYJewish Museumhttps://thejewishmuseum.org
USANew York, NYKehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museumhttps://www.kkjsm.org
USANew York, NYYeshiva University Museumhttps://www.yumuseum.org
USANew York, NYJewish Children's Museumhttps://www.jcm.museum
USANew York, NYYIVO Institute for Jewish Researchhttps://www.yivo.org
USANewark, NJJewish Museum of New Jerseyhttp://www.jewishmuseumnj.org
USAPhiladelphia, PANational Museum of American Jewish Historyhttps://www.nmajh.org
USAPortland, OROregon Jewish Museumhttps://www.ojmche.org
USASan FranciscoContemporary jewish Museumhttps://www.thecjm.org/explore
USATulsa, OKSherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Arthttps://jewishmuseumtulsa.org
USAWashington, DCNational Museum of American Jewish Military Historyhttps://nmajmh.org
USAWoodbine, NJSam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritagehttp://www.thesam.org
VenesuelaCaracusMuseo Sefaradi de Caracushttp://museosefardi.com.ve

How Cyber is your Faith?

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Cyber (Cyberspace) and Faith

Cyber

Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory and purposive systems—their structures, constraints, and possibilities. The core concept of the discipline is circular causality or feedback—that is, where the outcomes of actions are taken as inputs for further action. Cybernetics is concerned with such processes however they are embodied, including in environmental, technological, biological, cognitive, and social systems, and in the context of practical activities such as designing, learning, managing, and conversation.

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Faith

Faith, derived from Latin fides and Old French feid, is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, one can define faith as “belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion”. Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence.

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Faith and Technology per Buckminster Fuller

From R. Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed, that to our knowledge, humans have on board it for two million years, not even knowing that they were on board a ship. And our spaceship is so superbly designed as to be able to keep life regenerating on board, despite the phenomenon, entropy, by which all local physical systems lose energy

Spaceship Earth’s God

There exists “an infinitely greater a priori, omnianticipatory, intellectual integrity embracing and permeating the universe than that demonstrable or suggested by any known capability of any human intellect.”

God is, for Fuller, “the most economical term thus far intuitively formulated by humanity”

No More Second Hand God

God is a verb

the most active connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy

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I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments bf the human mechanism. 

Our roles as transceivers on Spaceship Earth

It would follow from Fuller’s understanding of how God operates in the universe that man would be seen as “trans-ceiver mechanisms through which God is broadcasting.” It would further follow from this view of man that we must keep ourselves tuned to God’s wave-length – which is a technological statement of the Hassidic statement: “Where is God? Where-ever man will let Him in.”

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