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Volunteer Spotlight on Irv Weintraub!

Irv Weintraub has been a library/archives volunteer for four to five years. He became interested in volunteering after he heard that some of his friends from Beth Israel Congregation were involved at the Museum. His father came from a small …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Bev Rosen!

Bev Rosen has been a volunteer docent at the JMM for two years. She decided to become a volunteer because she loves history, giving presentations and helping people learn new things. She is also very outgoing and people oriented and …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Ernie Silversmith!

Ernie Silversmith has been a volunteer docent at the JMM for 15 years. In looking through our collection records,  I discovered that the Museum had completed a memoir of him a few years ago. In that memoir, I learned that …

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Volunteer Spotlight: Ilene Cohen

Throughout the month of June, Ilene Cohen will be tying up loose ends and training staff members about the JMM’s Volunteer Program and her role as Volunteer Coordinator, a role that Ilene established over 12 years ago.   Ilene came to the …

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Volunteer Spotlight on: Harvey Karch, docent

Volunteer Docent, Harvey Karch was born and raised in Baltimore.  He first lived above the family grocery store in Dundalk, next migrated northwest to Forest Park, then onward to Park Heights.  After college, he moved to Montgomery County – he …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Sydney Gross!

Sydney Gross volunteers at the JMM at the Front Desk and in the Shop.  She is new to our volunteer corps but has always found a way to fit volunteering into her busy life.  From an early age, her parents …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Barbara Ezratty!

Barbara Ezratty has been volunteering at the JMM for over 11 years. She works in the Museum Shop.  She always enjoyed attending programs at the Museum and agreed to volunteer in the Shop when she was recruited by former Shop …

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Volunteer Spotlight on: Ira Askin

Ira Askin has been a volunteer at the Jewish Museum of Maryland since 1992.  He works in the library and is also a member of the Board of Directors, having served as President from 1996 – 1999.  He actually began …

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Volunteer Spotlight on: Judy Tapiero

Judy Tapiero is volunteering to organize the Anne Adalman Goodwin Library of the Jewish Museum of Maryland. That’s what she did in her professional life – she was a library consultant.  She organized and set up libraries for companies and …