Experience Jewish-American Hall of Fame Medals With Major Expansion of Website
www.amuseum.org made its first appearance on the internet in 1996. In 2002, it won the
Numismatic Literary Guild’s (NLG) award as the
Best Non-Commercial Website. In May 2021, the newly expanded website makes its debut, just in time to celebrate
Jewish American Heritage Month.
Mel Wacks, Founding Director of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame, has worked for over a year to make this possible, along with programmer Sumera Manzoor.
Over 60 pages have been added, featuring large photos of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame medals and texts that are easy to read on smartphones as well as computer screens. The new pages picture medals created by renowned medalists like
History Abounds in Richmond, Virginia
The first time I set foot in Richmond, Virginia, I was an aspiring writer working on a (terrible) novel about a family torn apart by differing loyalties during the Civil War. Newly married, living in Charlottesville, Virginia, I was fascinated by the amount of resources the state of Virginia provided about the war, its background, and the lives of the people who fought in it. Historic homes on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. (James Kirkikis/Shutterstock)
I was in Richmond to visit the American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy. As a born and raised New Yorker, I had little understanding of the complexities of the war and the tumultuous years that led up to it. I expected to spend the entire day in the museum, head buried in displays and paragraphs of text I could eventually transfer to the backdrop of my book.
By MICHELLE BOORSTEIN | The Washington Post | Published: April 27, 2021 WASHINGTON Reports of antisemitic incidents rose in the Washington D.C. region in 2020 to an all-time high, a leading anti-bias group said Tuesday, as people blamed Jews for the spread of the pandemic and attacked their institutions via videoconference Zoom-bombings. The Anti-Defamation League, which has been tracking reports it receives since 1979, also said Tuesday that the number of reported incidents nationally 2,204 declined by 4% in 2020 after hitting an all-time high in 2019. Last year was still the third-highest year on record, the ADL said. The incidents are classified into three categories: assault, harassment and vandalism.
Virginia Holocaust Museum invites guests to see what hate can do
The Virginia Holocaust Museum is now operating and inviting guests to visit and see âwhat hate can do.â
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RICHMOND, Va. After closing because of COID- 19 then reopening under the governorâs safety guidelines, the Virginia Holocaust Museum is now operating and inviting guests to visit and see âwhat hate can do.â
Virginia Holocaust Museum Executive Director Sam Asher said the 120,000-square-foot building is home to rare archives, images and survivor stories of the Holocaust.
The museumâs permanent exhibition takes you through a timeline of raw and poignant images like âThe Night of the Broken Glass.â