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September 2020 Newsletter

Your Virtual Jewish Museum  Our building may still be closed but the museum is still open online! Join us online for Jewish Museum London Live! Bringing the collection to you, Jewish Museum London Live enables you to experience the museum straight from home.  Participate in live streams, including talks on significant objects from the collection, a weekly quiz on a Friday, a museum family mornings on a Sunday. Plus we are now running Virtual Tours of the museum every other Monday!  We also have thousands of objects in our online collection for you to explore from home and hundreds of educational resources to enable remote learning. Find out more A Virtual Visit to the Jewish Museum! 7 September @ 3.30pm - 4.15pm  Explore the highlights of the Jewish museum’s galleries and discover the history of this museum’s collection. From the oldest Hannukah lamp made in Britain to the inspiring story of our WWII Nurses’ Cape, this virtual tour shares highlights from our Judaism, History and Holocaust Galleries. This tour will be delivered via Zoom and attendees will be emailed the link and details needed to join. Book your tickets now! Stories from the Stores! 21 September @ 3.30pm - 4.15pm Peer behind-the-scenes of the Jewish Museum with this chance to discover important objects from our stores. From photographs of early 20th century lessons at the Jews’ Free School to unique items of Judaica, uncover hidden stories from our stores in this virtual tour. This tour will be delivered via Zoom and attendees will be emailed the link and details to join. For more information on how to participate please click on the button below.  Find out more! Upcoming Virtual Events and Latest Blogs Object Talk Live: Rosh Hashanah   Join Senior Learning Manager Lisa to learn more about the upcoming Festival of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) by exploring a photograph from our collection of an Iraqi Jewish Family. This live talk will be streamed via our Facebook page.   Catch up with our Community Chats!  Listen to this podcast to hear from Lisa and Eliana, two Jewish women who discuss body image in the face of Anti-Semitic Jewish stereotypes. Jewish Museum Virtual Talks Check out our Virtual Tours that allow you to explore highlights of the Jewish Museum’s designated collection from your own home.  Extended Object Talk Live : Yom Kippur - Friends and Patrons  Tuesday 22 September, 3-3.45pm Join Emma and Eliana from the Learning and Engagement Team for a special extended version of our public object talks. This talk will explore objects from our stores that depict Yom Kippur being celebrated. We will examine the above postcard of soldiers attending a service for Yom Kippur whilst on active duty in 1870 will move through to the 20th century.  Virtual Events Learning at the Virtual Museum Virtual Classrooms Bookings are open for next term! Our award-winning workshops can now be experienced through distance learning. On these pages you will find all the information you need as teachers to select a workshop topic that best suits your students. All our workshops are based on a guided exploration experience of our unique collection of authentic objects enabling students to ask questions about what is means to be Jewish in Britain today. Click on the button below to find out more. Connected Learning: Outreach Loan Boxes Our specially designed curriculum based loan boxes bring authentic Jewish objects into your classroom to support your students to learn about belief and practice in Judaism. With boxes available in all Key Stages from 1-5 plus Early Years, why not bring the museum to your school for term? Click the button below to find out more and book for the next school year!