Museum commissions artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans to create new stained-glass window
Eldridge Street's original Ten Commandments are restored and returned to the main sanctuary just in time for the Jewish New Year
National Endowment for the Humanities awards Museum prestigious Digital Humanities start-up grant
Record turnout - more than 6,700 people - for our annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival held on June 7
Introduction of Free Monday Mornings, making this the most popular tour day of the workweek
We welcome 4,000-plus K-12 students, an 80% increase from 2008, and more than 150 school groups,a 100% increase
Our teacher professional development workshops serve 496 teachers from across the country
Museum secures funding for new Ways We Worship inter-faith initiative
50 public programs, including concerts, lectures, film screenings and festivals attract over 10,000 people, a 10% increase from 2008
We receive funding to archive our collection, more than 500 objects related to Jewish practice and life in Eastern Europe and on the Lower East Side.
RESTORING THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
In September 2009, just in time for the Jewish New Year, the Museum returned the synagogue’s original Ten Commandments to their home above the ark. The right tablet had seriously deteriorated over time, and the left one had disappeared many years ago and was later replaced with an artist’s re-creation. The Museum restored the Commandments just in time for the holiday after discovering the missing left tablet during our archiving process. “It was bashert, or meant to be,” according to Executive Director Bonnie Dimun. The tablets were beautifully restored by Kumi Hisano, a paint restorer with Evergreen Architectural Arts, the firm that worked on the larger synagogue restoration.
We are grateful to Jeff Greene and Evergreene Architectural Arts for their gift of restoring the Ten Commandment Plaques.
Click here to watch
WABC-TV's filming of
the Ten Commandments
being returned
