Tag: history

JMM Insights: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Today’s JMM Insights comes to us from Mark Gunnery, Director of Communications and Content for the JMM. Last week, our new exhibit, Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare, opened to the public. Throughout

“Originalism” Run Amuck

Blog post by Executive Director Marvin Pinkert This week’s remarks by White House policy advisor Steven Miller seeking to disassociate the Statue of Liberty from the poem by Emma Lazarus

A False “Rosetta Stone”

A graphic rendering of the exterior of the Lloyd Street Synagogue, a large building with columns. The building is pink and grey, with navy shadows and there’s a light blue sky.

Earlier this fall I had the opportunity to speak to the brotherhood of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation about the life of Mendes Cohen and the origins of Jewish Baltimore.  In preparation