American Bible Society’s Faith and Liberty Discovery Center is opening across the street from Independence Mall Stephan Salisbury, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TIM TAI/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Executive director Patrick Murdock talks about an exhibit during a preview tour of the new Faith and Liberty Discovery Center. Angelina Grimké Weld was an abolitionist and women s rights activist.
The first thing you need to know about the Faith and Liberty Discovery Center, which opens Saturday on the ground floor of the Wells Fargo Building at Fifth and Market Streets, is that it is not a museum.
The center, which is run by the American Bible Society, bills itself as an “attraction.” It has some artifacts on display, William Penn’s Bible, for instance, but not many. High tech is where the action is for this facility, located across the street from Independence Mall and the National Museum of American Jewish History.
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This Crazy quilt was stitched in Canton, Mississippi by the Jewish Ladies Sewing Circle. Museum visitors will be able to create quilt squares representing their own identities and communities in an interactive, electronic exhibit. Image courtesy of the Museum of Southern Jewish Experience
When friends say they are heading to my hometown of New Orleans, I happily share a list of my favorite places to eat. Soon, however, I’ll also be encouraging them to visit the most exciting newcomer on the city’s “must see” list the new Museum of Southern Jewish Experience.
Visitors to the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement’s website are greeted with a ticker showing the number of people and organizations who have signed on to say they are that “all in” for this fight: 322,552 individuals and 321 groups as of Wednesday.
A page of “notable quotes” starts off with Presidents Biden, Trump, Obama and George W. Bush, then moves on to international heads of state and other politicians. It includes Rep. Steven Scalise, the Louisiana Republican who is minority whip in the House and who once reportedly pitched himself as “David Duke without the baggage,” and the late evangelical leader Billy Graham, who was once recorded telling President Richard Nixon that Jews were behind the pornography industry and their “stranglehold has got to be broken or the country’s going down the drain.”
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Jewish Museum Rightly Valued At $66M, Judge Says
Law360 (April 6, 2021, 9:27 PM EDT) A Pennsylvania federal judge Tuesday ratified a bankruptcy court s finding that a bankrupt Philadelphia Jewish history museum s property is worth $66 million, saying the museum management s $10.5 million estimate doesn t factor its own intention to keep running the building as a museum.
In her order, U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone said the bankruptcy court judge was right to accept the higher valuation proposed by the secured lenders for the downtown Philadelphia location of the National Museum of American Jewish History, saying as a legal standard the museum s intention to keep using the building means it can t be valued as if it.
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