Once Upon a Time...

Once Upon a Time 4.9.10

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 4/9/10

PastPerfect Accession #: 2006.013.1160

Status: Unidentified. Six young adults performing a kick-line dance enjoying Purim festivities, wearing or holding hats with a three-stripe ribbon around top circumference. On the front a circular logo is sticking up, but held in place by the ribbon. Circular logo has a Star of David make with a heart and surrounded by the words: "Israel, We Need You!" Second from left is Danny Kaye. Purim '75.

Special thanks to: Lynn Baklor

Israel Photo Contest!

Are you a Jewish young adult from Maryland who has visited Israel? The Jewish Museum of Maryland is looking for your best, most meaningful photograph for an upcoming issue of our Generations magazine. Send us a picture of yourself in Israel with a short story (less than 300 words) about the photograph and its meaning to you. The best ten submissions will be published. Each winner will receive a free one-year membership to the Museum.

Submissions must be received by May 1st to be considered. Submissions can be sent digitally or in hard copy. Hard copy submissions can be mailed to: Rachel Kassman, Jewish Museum of Maryland, 15 Lloyd Street, Baltimore MD 21202. All hard copy photographs will be returned. Email submissions should be sent to: Rachel Kassman at rkassman@jewishmuseummd.org as low resolution copies of the photograph. If accepted for publication we will ask for a high resolution copy.

Program Spotlight: Kesher Kit: The Maryland - Israel Connection!

Are you an educator whose class is studying Israel? The Kesher Kit may be perfect for you!

Inspired by the 60th anniversary celebration of the founding of Israel and along with the previous exhibition Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, the JMM created Kesher Kit: The Maryland-Israel Connection, an educational resource that explores connections that Jewish Marylanders have with Israel, past and present.

Each kit includes innovative lesson plans, biographical sketches, timelines, glossaries, and reproductions of archival documents historical photographs, and images from the Dateline: Israel exhibition. (Dateline: Israel was curated by the Jewish Museum in New York.)

The main objective of the kit is to provide engaging and innovative lessons so students can understand the lives of Maryland Zionists during the early years of the establishment of the Jewish state. The lessons enable students to develop critical thinking skills as they examine and analyze contemporary photographs documenting current life in Israel. The lessons are also designed to strengthen the student's own connection to the State of Israel.

Five Marylanders have been included in the resource kit because of their contributions to the establishment of the State of Israel. Included are Henrietta Szold (this lesson is intended for elementary school students but can be modified for high-school students), Rudolf Sonneborn, Dr. Herman Seidel, Mendes I. Cohen and Jacob Blaustein. All of these colorful figures have wonderful stories and each has made a significant contribution to the development of the State of Israel.