MUSEUM ATELDRIDGE STREET

Annual Report 2014

“This ranks with the historical 19th-century synagogues of Europe and Israel and is well worth a visit. Visitors of any religion will find a beautiful and graceful spiritual space.” Thanks to reviews like this, the Museum was awardeda 2014 Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor

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2014 was a year of continued growth for the Museum at Eldridge Street. In June we opened a beautiful, new visitor center and permanent exhibition on the Museum’s entry level— the culmination of more than two years of fundraising, planning and design. Our new center has a profound impact on how people experience our landmark site and learn about its history. Now they enter an elegant and inviting admission area. Our visitors are particularly drawn to the Museum’s new permanent exhibition which uses artifacts, Yiddish signs, Judaica, and digital displays to tell the story of the Eldridge Street Synagogue and the community of Jewish immigrants who settled on the Lower East Side. If you have not been to Eldridge Street since the opening of our visitor center, we invite you to come by this year.

Our educational and cultural programs continued to flourish. In particular we want to share the growth of our adult learning classes which continue a 127-year tradition of Jewish learning in our space. Today, if you visit the Museum during a weekday morning and peek into our Gural-Rabinowitz Family History Center you will find a group of engaged learners in animated conversation about Jewish texts and history. But we are home not just to adult learners. In 2014, 7,500 school-age children visited the Museum to learn about Jewish holidays, immigrant history, and architecture and historic preservation.

Our Lost and Found Music series had its most successful year yet. We presented a dazzling array of Jewish music ranging from Scottish klezmer to synagogue music of the Baroque period, from Sephardic music to Hasidic songs. We are particularly heartened that young musicians who are part of a movement to revitalize nearly forgotten Jewish musical traditions see our site as the place to perform. In 2014 four CD release concerts featuring the music of innovative, young Jewish musicians took place here. We were also home to special events like the screening of a deeply moving film by artist and filmmaker Mark Podwal on his recent Terezin Ghetto Museum exhibition.

The core experience the Museum offers is our guided tour of the Eldridge Street Synagogue. Today close to 80% of American Jews trace their ancestry to the community of Jews who arrived in America between 1880 and 1924, part of a massive wave of migration. And yet, as time passes, and the Lower East Side changes, very few sites remain that mark their journey. The Eldridge Street Synagogue is one of those places. Here the Jewish immigrant experience comes to life. We are proud stewards of this landmark site, and recognize our responsibility to the public to keep a connection to that history and heritage alive. In that regard, we want to single out the contributions of the Museum’s forty volunteer docents. They donate their time to the museum, share their knowledge and passion, and are our most gracious ambassadors to the public. If you visit the Museum, they will share the synagogue’s history with you, but more than that, they will make you feel at home.

Global events, sadly, have made us aware of the need for heightened security at our Jewish landmark. Please be assured that in 2014 we introduced new measures to ensure the safety of our visitors and staff.

2014 saw the passing of Mildred Caplow, who served on the Museum’s Board of Directors from 1995 to 2014. We also will miss the active involvement of Susan Malloy, who passed away in early 2015. These two remarkable women played a leading role in the restoration of the Eldridge Street Synagogue and leave behind a poignant legacy.

We want to thank our colleagues on the Museum’s staff and board of directors. Their creativity, dedication and talent ensure that our site will thrive for many years to come. Finally, we want to thank you, our community of supporters. Your generosity helps ensure the preservation and continued life of our American Jewish landmark. You have made this a welcoming and dynamic space for all.

Michael Weinstein Bonnie DimunChairman Executive Director

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“This ranks with the historical 19th-century synagogues of Europe and Israel and is well worth a visit. Visitors of any religion will find a beautiful and graceful spiritual space.” Thanks to reviews like this, the Museum was awardeda 2014 Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor

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The Museum welcomed 40,000 visitors in 2014, a 9% increase over last year. Visitors came from throughout New York City, the nation and the world.

The Museum received rave reviews from visitors: we were ranked in the top 25 of more than 644 attractions in New York City by Trip Advisor and received enthusiastic reviews on-line, in guidebooks, on social media and in our visitor surveys.

Our new visitor center opened in June 2014, providing a welcoming, informative and more secure entry experience for visitors.

Our visitor center’s beautiful new permanent exhibition features more than 50 artifacts and updated interactive displays that tell the story of the Eldridge Street Synagogue, its immigrant founders and our Lower East Side neighborhood.

Our volunteer docents, designated one of the nation’s Preserve America Stewards by The White House, welcomed more than 13,000 visitors, and delivered more than 1,000 tours.

The Museum’s competitive internship program received dozens of applications, and provided eight college and graduate students with the opportunity to lead tours, assist in our cultural and educational programs, and conduct archival research.

Our public programs included concerts, talks, family events, and the popular Egg Rolls and Egg Cream Festival, and were attended by over 14,000 people.

7,500 school-age children—the highest annual total for the Museum in its history—visited in 2014 to learn about Jewish history, holidays and culture.

Our gala honoring “Champions of the Spirit” Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Mariano Rivera, Ira Berkow and Art Shamsky raised more than $450,000 for the Museum.

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Are you related? Check our on-line database of early congregants to see if your family may have prayed at the Eldridge Street Synagogue eldridgestreet.org/original-congregants/

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NEW ORIENTATION CENTER AND PERMANENT EXHIBITIONOn Thursday, June 12, the Museum at Eldridge Street’s board members, donors, docents, and other friends celebrated the opening of our new visitor center. The project completely transformed the building’s lower level with a new entrance lobby, admission area and permanent exhibition.

Immediately facing the viewer upon entering the exhibition is a large-scale reproduction of the Eldridge Street Synagogue’s original 1886 architectural rendering, a testament to the grand vision of the synagogue’s immigrant founders. A nearby illustrated map shows the immigrant pathway from Eastern Europe to the Lower East Side and also introduces some of the congregation’s founding members, including banker Sender Jarmulowsky, kosher meat makers Isaac and Sarah Gellis, and mikvah operator Gittel Natelson. The bulk of the exhibit features artifacts from the Museum’s collection, many on display for the first time. These include beautiful silver and velvet Torah dressings as well as more practical objects like the congregation’s early constitution and a ceramic spittoon. Restoration artifacts help complete the story, along with updated digital displays by Potion Design.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) provided the initial

$150,000 grant for this project, which then allowed the Museum to raise

matching funds. We are grateful to IMLS and to the following funders:

180 Varick Street Corporation, Susan and Jay Anderson, Bloomberg, The

David Berg Foundation, Inc., Naomi Gat, The David Geffen Foundation,

The Feil Organization, Hyde and Watson Foundation, Blanche and Irving

Laurie Foundation, Inc., Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Inc., Lonnie and Thomas

Schwartz Foundation, Amy and Charles Spielman Family Foundation,

Jane and Frances Stein Foundation, and two anonymous donations.

NEW ARTIFACTS AND STORIES FOR OUR GURAL-RABINOWITZ FAMILY HISTORY CENTERThere is nothing more satisfying than discovering old pho-tographs of the synagogue’s earliest congregants or hearing their stories from current day descendants. That’s why we are particularly pleased to have updated the exhibition in the Museum’s Gural-Rabinowitz Family History Center to focus on family stories as told through oral histories and artifacts—some newly donated to the Museum’s collection. In 2014, for the first time we saw the faces of early synagogue leader David Cohen and mikvah operator Gittel Natelson in photographs donated by their descendants.

Special thanks to the following for objects donated for our new exhibits: Randy

Anderson, Sarah Andron, Joseph Bachner, Stanley Bergman, Scott Crawford,

Bonnie Dimun, New Era Factory Outlet, Sharon Stein and Ruth Warembud.

The exhibition…is simultaneously dense with artifacts and relatively small. That appealing combination means one can take in the history lesson quickly before proceeding upstairs to the glorious main sanctuary, or linger downstairs and pore over historical documents, architectural fragments, Yiddish signs, personal effects and thumbnail biographies of leading figures in the congregation.”

—DAVID DUNLAP, The New York Times

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OUR DOCENTS AND INTERNSEvery day we are open, our volunteer docents bring to life the history of the Eldridge Street Synagogue welcoming visitors from all over the world. More than 13,000 people took a tour of the Eldridge Street Synagogue in 2014. The Museum’s docent program expanded this year to include forty people, including five new volunteers who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience from teaching and working in museums and other non-profit institutions. The docent program provides a wonderful community for those contemplating or entering retirement, young people who seek to gain museum experience, and those who want to connect with their Jewish heritage.

The Museum also offers a growing and competitive internship program. Interns thrive in our small museum environment which provides hands-on experience in all aspects of non-profit operations, including programs, education, fundraising, marketing, and social media. Graduates of our internship program have gone on to work at some of New York City’s most exciting cultural institutions, including the American Folk Art Museum, Green-Wood Cemetery, Guggenheim Museum, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and the Tenement Museum. In 2014 the Museum welcomed eight interns who came from Baruch College, Brandeis University, Eugene Lang College the New School, Grinnell College, Hampshire College, and Yeshiva University.

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Programs about immigration, Jewish culture, synagogue architecture, and the surprising beauty of mathematics enticed over 7,500 students to visit Eldridge Street in 2014. 400 of our youngest visitors joined us for Shapes and Colors, Patterns and Light, and discovered just how pretty math can be. Adding, subtracting, and counting their way around the synagogue, elementary school students identified shapes, found patterns, and tallied up as many golden stars as they could find. “My students kept raving about the field trip asking when they can go back,” one teacher wrote. Eldridge Street educators continued to work closely with our Teacher Advisory Committee in 2014 to provide museum programs that enrich the classroom curriculum and meet the Common Core Standards. Enhancing our website, we designed downloadable activities for teachers and students to further encourage the connection between classroom learning and the museum visit.

SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMSThe 2014 reviews are in and more than 1,200 enthusiastic students agree: our holiday program Celebrate with Us! is fun! Every year in the winter and spring, Lower East Side school children flock to Eldridge Street to learn the stories of Hanukkah and Passover, and to share their own diverse holiday traditions. For many neighborhood children who have never visited a synagogue before, stepping inside this glorious sanctuary draws gasps of appreciation and surprise. One of our most popular school programs, Celebrate with Us! is designed to engage students ages four to eleven, and many return year after year. One second grade teacher wrote after her 2014 visit, “Students learned about the traditions of Hanukkah. They were part of the storytelling. They loved the singing and the doughnuts. It was a fun and educational program.”

PRESERVATION DETECTIVES FAMILY PROGRAMThe Eldridge Street Synagogue and the history of the Lower East Side provide endless inspiration for our growing family programs—up 22% in attendance over last year. In 2014, we offered original scavenger hunts, neighborhood walking tours, and a new tradition: old time street games. Stickball, stoop ball, handball, hit the penny, jump rope, cards, and jacks—you name it, city kids played it, and last spring so did we!

Assisted by our own former New York City kid—Museum at Eldridge Street docent Gil Gordon—families joined us outside to play all the old favorites.

“Street games were the way a generation of young people growing up in a crowded urban environment learned how to be both competitive and cooperative with one’s peers. You knew whether you won or lost, and you would all be back on the street, after school, eager to play again.”

—GIL GORDON, Museum Docent

In December, families enjoyed a building wide treasure hunt inspired by When Mindy Saved Hanukkah, a delightful children’s book that takes place right here in the Eldridge Street Synagogue. Children and parents explored the sanctuary as they followed the story, found hidden treasures, made Hanukkah art, and said a sweet goodbye to 2014 with chocolate dreidel making.

Teachers and students can download pre- and post-visit materials and other educational resources at eldridgestreet.org/education/

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ADULT LEARNINGThe Museum’s Morris Kaplan Scholar in Residence and Adult Learning Program continued to grow in 2014 with attendance at 580 participants. Scholar in Residence Dr. Regina Stein once again offered popular weekly study classes challenging the group to ask modern questions about ancient subjects. A spring class on “The Many Faces of the Torah,” has evolved into a new regular feature of our adult learning program: a weekly discussion based on the Torah portion. Urban historian and Museum docent Barry Feldman led an exploration of Jewish migration and acclimation in New York and beyond, including Lower East Side sites important to varied immigrant groups. In the fall, Barry followed up with a discussion of the waves of Irish, German, Eastern European, Italian, Hispanic and Asian immigrants to our constantly changing neighborhood, enhanced by a walking tour. Hanna Griff-Sleven, the Museum’s Director of Cultural Programs, guided a workshop in the art of memoir writing, offering participants the opportunity to compose a family history. The adult education program will expand in 2015 to include classes every weekday and during the evening.

The Museum’s Morris Kaplan Scholar in Residence program is supported in part

by The Alice Lawrence Foundation, Inc. with additional support provided by

the Edouard Foundation, Marta Jo Lawrence, Epstein Teicher Philanthropies,

The Marc Haas Foundation, Inc., The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Leo Rosner

Foundation, Inc., New York State Council on the Arts with the support of

Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the City

of New York Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York

City Council.

LOST & FOUND MUSIC2014 took us to lands near and far, musically at least! We kicked off the year with Plaid, Baroque and Klezmer, a program that perfectly personifies our Lost & Found Music series. Musician and scholar Adrianne Greenbaum researched and performed a program of baroque gypsy music, tracing musical influences of the East European Jewish community as they traveled west from Slovakia to Scotland. She was joined by Michal Alpert, Christopher Norman and David Greenberg.

We were the happy hosts for four CD release parties. In the summer saxophonist Paul Shapiro released Shofarot Verses, an exciting blend of soul and R&B with the Jewish tradition. Musicians Remy Yulzari and Nadav Lev took the cover photo for their new album Azafea at Eldridge Street and came back in October to celebrate its release with a concert that explored Sephardic musical traditions that joined jazz, klezmer, classical and folk. Trumpeter Frank London was their special guest.

December gave us a bounty of new music. Celebrating twenty years together, Metropolitan Klezmer, led by drummer Eve Sicular, raised the roof with a rollicking concert celebrating the launch of their fifth album, “Mazel Means Good Luck.” We ended the season celebrating a new CD by the new Yiddish Art Trio, featuring Michael Winograd, Benjy Fox-Rosen and Patrick Farrell. Their music is a blend of infectious traditional melodies, new compositions, chamber music arrangements and wonderful improvisation. The sanctuary danced that night.

Special thanks to our concert sponsors: Helene and Steven Walsey,

Walkers Shortbread, Hanna Griff-Sleven and Paul Sleven, and the Academy

for Jewish Religion.

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Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival

8,900 people flocked to the unique slice of Manhattan where Chinatown meets the Jewish Lower East Side for our 14th annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival on Sunday, June 8. The synagogue and our block on Eldridge Street were transformed into a cross-cultural smorgasbord showcasing the ways Jewish and Chinese cultural forms are unique and also intertwined. Chinese opera performers took the stage on the heels of a boisterous klezmer ensemble; a Hebrew and Chinese scribe sat side-by-side in the sanctuary; food demos focused on dumplings and kreplach; Chinese and Jewish mah jongg players compared notes on their different traditions; visitors got mini-Yiddish and Mandarin language lessons, kids decorated yarmulkes and made Chinese fans; and all enjoyed delicious kosher egg rolls and hand-made egg creams.

Our Program Director, Hanna Griff-Sleven, comments: “Starting at our very first festival back in 2000, we’ve experienced a deep feeling of community and joy that emanates from all the participants and festival goers—this is a New York Moment.”

The 2014 Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival was supported in part

by the Manhattan Borough President’s Office Cultural Tourism

Program (The Honorable Gale Brewer), National Endowment

for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in

Partnership with the New York City Council, NYC & Co

Foundation, and NYC Council District 1 (The Honorable

Margaret Chin), and by the New York State Council on the Arts

with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York

State Legislature. Special thanks to Festival Sponsor National

Trust Insurance Services, LLC, Brooklyn, and to Fox’s U-Bet and

The Brooklyn Seltzer Boys for their kosher food donations.

Visit a slideshow gallery of our festival at eldridgestreet.org/egg-rolls-egg-creams- empanadas-festival/

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Public Programs 2014MUSICPlaid, Baroque and Klezmer:

A Jewish Musical OdysseyMarch 2

Triangle Fire: A Musical Tribute with Lisa Gutkin, Pete Rushefsky and Rémy YulzariMarch 23

D’Var Shira: Music Meets Text at the Red Sea, Concert and Spoken WordMarch 26

Klezmer Travels the World with the David Glukh EnsembleMay 18

CD Release Concert: Paul Shapiro’s Shofarot VersesJune 19

Rebetica Greek MusicAugust 13

The Brothers NazaroffSeptember 4

Jewish Baroque Music with the Concertino New York Chamber EnsembleSeptember 21

CD Release Concert: Azafea— A Spanish Odyssey with Remy Yulzari and Nadav LevOctober 14

The Singing Table: Hasidic Songs, Stories and NoshOctober 26

Klezmer Jewels with 12th Night KlezmerNovember 23

CD Release Concert: Metropolitan KlezmerDecember 15

CD Release Concert: Yiddish Art TrioDecember 21

FAMILYMartin Luther King Day Family Special

January 20

Lights! Colors! Shadows? A Ground Hog Day Scavenger HuntFebruary 2

Heroes, Villains and HamentaschenMarch 9

Chocolate Plagues & Matzo Madness? Dayenu!April 6

Go Out and Play! Old Time GamesMay 18

All of a Kind Family Walking TourJuly 13

Restoration ExplorationAugust 10

Chocolate MeltdownSeptember 21

Incredible Edible SukkahOctober 5

All of a Kind Family Walking TourOctober 19

Election Day Bingo!November 4

The Great Turkey Scavenger HuntNovember 23

When Mindy Saved Hanukkah Treasure HuntDecember 14

Klez for Kids with KlezmerfestDecember 25

TALKS, WALKS, FESTIVALS AND MOREWinterGreen Festival: A Tu B’Shvat Celebration

January 12

Rugelach Making WorkshopJanuary 14 and February 19

Love & Courtship: Lower East Side Walking Tour

February 16

Making it New: Contemporary Novelists and the Jewish Literary Tradition

March 9

Old Recipes for a New GenerationMarch 10

Passover Nosh & StrollApril 6

Lower East Side Walking TourApril 17

Matzo and Macaroons Synagogue ToursApril 17, 18, 20

My Father’s War Book Party with Alisse Waterston

April 27

Walls and Words: Exhibition Featuring Artwork by Wallace Berman, Kon Trubkovich and Tony Lewis

May 6–16

Yiddishe Mamas Mother’s Day Walking Tour

May 11

Sacred Sites Open HouseMay 18

Egg Rolls and Egg Creams FestivalJune 8

Visitor Center OpeningJune 12

World of Our Zaydes Father’s Day Walking Tour

June 15

Book Launch: New York City in the Gilded Age with Esther Crain

June 18

Book Launch: The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin

July 16

Lower East Side Walking TourJuly 20, August 17

Love and Courtship Walking TourAugust 10

Screening: All This Has Come Upon Us with artist Mark Podwal

October 7

Open House New YorkOctober 12

Book Launch: A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987, with Kathryn Hallerstein

October 21

ADULT LEARNINGPeople of the Book: A Monthly Book Club with Dr. Regina Stein

February 3–May 5 (4 sessions)

War and Peace: From the Bible to Modern Israel with Dr. Regina Stein

March 4–May 6 (8 sessions)

Parashat Hashavuah: Ancient Custom, New Twist with Dr. Regina Stein

January 9–May 29 (20 sessions)

Ethnicity, Place and Time on the Lower East Side with Barry Feldman

April 30–May 21 (4 sessions)

Modernity and the Bible with Dr. Regina Stein

October 21–December 9 (8 sessions)

The Many Faces of the Torah with Dr. Regina Stein

October 23–December 18 (8 sessions)

Immigrant Communities on the Lower East Side with Barry Feldman

October 22–November 19 (5 sessions)

Memoir Writing Workshop with Dr. Hanna Griff-Sleven

November 17–December 8 (4 sessions)

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2014 Groups and VisitorsSYNAGOGUES & YOUTH GROUPSAdat Shalom Adath Emanu-El Adath IsraelBet TorahBeth ElBeth EmetBeth ShalomB’nai IsraelCentral SynagogueChai Center for Jewish LifeCommunity Synagogue from MonseyCongregation Agudas AchimCongregation Ahavath SholomCongregation Beth OrCongregation Beth ShalomCongregation B’nai ShalomCongregation B’nai TzedekCongregation Kol TikvahCongregation Sons of IsraelCongregation Temple SinaiGreenwich Reform SynagogueKehila Chadassah &

Buber Youth Community Lakeside SynagogueOhab ZedekPort Washington Temple Youth

at The Community SynagogueRadlett Reform SynagogueRodeph SholomSandi Kupperman Learning Center—

Temple Beth ElShaaray TefilaSinai Free SynagogueSummit Jewish Community CenterTemple Avodat ShalomTemple Berith SholomTemple Beth Ahm Temple Beth Ahm YisraelTemple Beth AmTemple Beth David Temple Beth IsraelTemple Beth ShalomTemple Beth SholomTemple Beth TikvahTemple Beth TorahTemple Chayai ShalomTemple EmanuelTemple Emanu-El of ClosterTemple Israel of Northern WestchesterTemple Judea of Bucks CountyTemple Ner Tamid

Temple ShalomTemple Sinai of RoslynThe Santa Monica SynagogueTown and Village SynagogueUnited Synagogue of

Hoboken Learning CenterWest London SynagogueWestchester Reform Temple

SCHOOLSAnchor Lutheran SchoolBais Frima High SchoolBais Yaacov of PassaicBais Yaakov D’Gur High SchoolBank Street School for ChildrenBeit Rabban Day SchoolBerkeley CarrollBerner Middle SchoolBritish International School

of New YorkCapitol Hill Day SchoolCarney High SchoolCurious KidsDePaul High SchoolDwight SchoolEarth SchoolEastern Middle SchoolFaith House ManhattanFriends SeminaryGolda Meir SchoolGreene Hill SchoolGrowing up Green Charter SchoolHebrew Academy of

the Five Towsn and RiverdaleInternational High School

at LaGuardia Community CollegeKadima Day SchoolLeo Baeck North CampusLevine AcademyMacDuffie SchoolManhattan Country SchoolMontessori Middle School of KentuckyPleasant Grove High School PS 1PS 2PS 19PS 20PS 25PS 42PS 87PS 94 – The Spectrum SchoolPS 102

PS 107QPS 110PS 124PS 134PS 137PS 140PS 212PS 361—The Childrens Workshop SchoolPS 397 Spruce Street SchoolQueens Metro High SchoolRidgewood High SchoolRiver Valley High SchoolRodeph Sholom SchoolSchool for Creative JudaismShulamith High School for GirlsSolomon Schechter School of ManhattanSSDS Greater HartfordStuyvesant High SchoolSusanna E. Heiman Religious School

of Temple B’nai Torah Tanenbaum CHATTarbut V’Torah Community Day SchoolTemple Emanu-El Religious SchoolThe Agnes Irwin SchoolThe Brooklyn Latin SchoolThe Town SchoolTorah Academy of Bergen CountyTrevor DayUnited Jewish SchoolYeshiva Bais Mikroh

UNIVERSITIESBrookdale Community CollegeColumbia University Institute for the

Study of Human Rights/ Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Program

College of Staten Island, CUNYCorpus Christi CollegeEastern Michigan UniversityLaGuardia Community College, CUNYMacaulay Honors College, CUNYNew York Community CollegeNew York UniversityNyack CollegePace UniversityPratt InstitutePrinceton University Language ProjectQueens College—College Now ProgramRutgers UniversitySUNY FITTouro CollegeUniversity of CincinnatiUniversity of DelawareYeshiva University

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OTHER GROUPS92nd Street YAHRC Bernard Betel CentreBig Apple Lansmann ToursBloomingdale Aging In PlaceCamp JudeaCentral Queens YCuisine Arts LLCDarkhei NoamDC 37Digital Photo AcademyEducational AllianceExplore New YorkGuides Association of New York City

(GANYC)Gilder Lehrman Institute

of American HistoryGreenwich Village Society

for Historic PreservationHANAC Ravenswood Senior CenterHASC—The Hebrew Academy

for Special ChildrenHenry Street Settlement—

Personalized Recovery Orientated Services

High Mountain Institute AlumniIOPE—EAST/Go West ToursJASA—Trump 4 Us JASA Club 76JASA Dreiser Senior Center

JCC of Middlesex CountyJewish Family & Children’s Service

of Greater PhiladelphiaJewish Historical Society

of Central JerseyJewish Journey ProjectKen Jewish Community CenterKineret Youth Program Lions of Judah—UJA FederationLittle Star of Broome Street

Early Childcare CenterLower East Side Jewish ConservancyManhattan Multicultural

Summer Youth ProgramMC ProductionsMiddle Village Adult CenterMoishe HouseNYC & CoPathways to GraduationPort Washington Public LibraryRaritan Photographic SocietyRay’s Food and Walking ToursREALRM ToursSAGESandy Pensak Book ClubSelf Help Community Services, Inc.Shalom BrooklynStrategic HebrewSWAN—Shuang Wen Academy NetworkThe Flow of History

The Upper ClassTomorrows ToursTours By Design/West Hartford CT

Continuing EducationUFTWF—United Federation

of Teachers Retiree ProgramUnited Nations Alliance of CivilizationsVillage of East Hills

Senior Activities CommitteeWalks of New YorkWestchester JCC—

Global Jewish ConnectionsWestchester Senior GroupYiddish Book Center

MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONSCenter for Jewish History—

Junior Scholars ProgramJewish Children’s MuseumLong Island Museum Museum of Chinese in AmericaMuseum of Jewish HeritageNew York Transit MuseumThe Rubin Museum The Tenement MuseumYIVO

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“Central to the Museum’s mission is a deep respect for those who have contributed to America’s culture and heritage.”

—Bonnie Dimun, Executive Director

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Leading figures from New York City’s business, philanthropic and sports communities supported the Museum at Eldridge Street at a gala honoring “Champions of the Spirit” Mariano Rivera, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, and Art Shamsky, and Pulitzer Prize-winning sports writer Ira Berkow. The gala took place on November 3, 2014 at Gotham Hall in New York City, and included cocktails, dinner and a live and silent auction. “Central to the Museum’s mission is a deep respect for those who have contributed to America’s culture and heritage,” said Museum at Eldridge Street’s Executive Director Bonnie Dimun.” Our landmark site, the Eldridge Street Synagogue,

stands as a testament to the countless immigrants to America and the values that they hold dear: respect for community, religious freedom, and the opportunity to build better lives for their children and their children’s children. Our honorees this year serve as models for all Americans. Their deep commitment to education, to religious freedom, to philanthropy, and their accomplishments, professionalism and brilliance on and off the field inspire us all.” The Museums gala raised $450,000 for our educational and cultural activities.

2014 Gala

Steven Walsey, Mallory and Elliot Silverstein, Helene Walsey, Romy Silverstein Jacquelyn Silver, Rhonda Silver, Bob Silver, Debby Klein Batelli, Anne Math

Jonathan Mechanic, Michael Weinstein, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Art Shamsky, Ira Berkow, Mariano Rivera, Arlene Goldfarb, Bonnie Dimun

Above: Bonnie Dimun, Walt “Clyde” Frazier

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2014 FUNDRAISING REPORTFrom Eva Brune, Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Preserving and sharing Jewish heritage is at the heart of the Museum at Eldridge Street’s mission. We’d like to thank our more than 1,900 donors in 2014 for their $1,164,871 in gifts which make possible the Museum’s myriad cultural and educational programs. Of this amount, $96,343 was contributed by first-time donors to the Museum in 2014: welcome and thank you!

Contributions from individuals, foundations, corporations, and government sources represent more than 83% of the Museum’s income. We are grateful to all of our donors for their commitment to sharing American-Jewish heritage, maintaining the Museum at Eldridge Street as a site that examines Jewish life, culture, art, history and literature. As author Sally Berkovic noted poignantly in a recent article,

“Caring for a synagogue…requires manpower and funds. A synagogue is known as a Beit Knesset—a house of gathering for the community—but if there is no community, then who is it for?” With the support of all of our donors, the Museum at Eldridge Street is alive with community and the Eldridge Street Synagogue is a beacon for Jews and those interested in Jewish heritage.

Each year, the Museum at Eldridge Street hosts a major fundraising event celebrating a year of accomplishment and success. Special thanks to thank Gala Co-Chairs Michael Weinstein and Judy and Stanley Zabar, and the entire Board of Directors for their leadership in raising $450,000 through this event in 2014.

We pay respects to long-time donors Miriam Jacobs and Freda R. Resnik, who

each made bequests to the Museum in 2014 as part of our 1887 Society

program. To date, the 1887 Society has received 20 bequests totaling $563,467.

For a complete listing of estate gifts, please see the Donations Page at the end

of this Annual Report.

Especially, we would like to thank a major Anonymous donor, The David Berg

Foundation, Epstein Teicher Philanthropies, The Morris and Arlene Goldfarb

Family Foundation, Aaron and Marion Gural Foundation, The Marc Haas

Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Blanche and Irving Laurie

Foundation, The Alice Lawrence Foundation, Inc., The Lucius N. Littauer

Foundation, Inc., The Leo Rosner Foundation, The Silver Family Foundation,

Valley National Bank, The Weinstein Foundation, and Judy and Stanley Zabar

for their 2014 leadership gifts.

Thank you for your support. To join this community of committed donors,

please contact 212.219.0888 x202 or ebrune@eldridgestreet.org.

Millen Magese, Bonnie Dimun, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Michael Weinstein

Abby and Valerie Doneger, Mariano Rivera, Arlene and Morris Goldfarb

Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor Lori Moore, Jeffrey Wilks, Amy Stein-Milford

Matthew Ezersky, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Lorinda Ash Inger and Mark Mirsky

Bonnie Dimun, Ira Berkow, Steve Greenberg

Jan Jalenak, Marilyn Fleming, Etty Moyal, Suzy Boshwit, Barry Wine

Roberta Brandes Gratz, Rebecca Gratz and Steven Sitrin

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LEADERSHIP CIRCLE: Gifts of $50,000 and overThe Marc Haas FoundationInstitute of Museum and Library ServicesThe Alice Lawrence Foundation, Inc.New York State Council on the Arts with

the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

Michael Weinstein/The Weinstein Foundation

PLATINUM CIRCLEGifts of $25,000–$49,999The David Berg Foundation, Inc.Bonnie and Tony DimunThe Morris and Arlene Goldfarb

Family FoundationPaula and Jeffrey Gural/

Aaron and Marion Gural FoundationCity of New York Department of Cultural

Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council/The Honorable Margaret Chin

The Silver Family FoundationHelene and Steven Walsey

GOLD CIRCLEGifts of $10,000–$24,999AnonymousSuzy B. BoshwitFeil Family FoundationJonathan Mechanic/

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and JacobsonThe Goldie Anna Charitable TrustThe Hyde and Watson FoundationBlanche and Irving Laurie FoundationThe Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Inc.Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel FoundationLori and David Moore FamilyNational Endowment for the ArtsDiane Rosenstein and Paul H. RichLeo Rosner FoundationStainman Family Foundation Inc.Untitled, LPLise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation

SILVER CIRCLEGifts of $5,000–$9,999Lorinda AshThe Eli and Edythe Broad FoundationSarah and Tal Michael ChitayatElias A. Cohen Foundation, Inc.William and Dewey Edelman Charitable TrustThe Edouard Foundation, Inc.Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg

Family FoundationEpstein Teicher PhilanthropiesRoberta Brandes GratzHUB International NortheastSamuel and Anna Jacobs Foundation, Inc.Peter LeeEve and Stephen MilsteinNYC & Company Foundation, Inc.Lonnie and Thomas Schwartz

Charitable FoundationSpielman Family FoundationJane and Frances Stein FoundationValley National BankVornado Realty Trust/David GreenbaumJudith and Stanley Zabar

BRONZE CIRCLEGifts of $1,000–$4,999Nanci and Sammy AaronPamela and Richard AderAnonymousBergman Family FundEdward BlankThe Ernest Bogen Philanthropic FundIra BreiteMelva Venezky Bucksbaum

and Raymond LearsyEric CohlerThe Crystal Family FoundationIde and David DangoorPaula and Brian DanielsValerie and Abbey Doneger/

Henry Doneger Associates, Inc.

2014 Contributors

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The Fertel FoundationAnna and Nathan Flax

Foundation, Inc.Ester Fuchs and Daniel VictorHana L. FuchsNaomi GatGary GershfieldLyla and Howard GlenerEllen and Neil GoldJennifer F. and Alan S. GoldfarbAlyssa and Cliff GreenbergMyrna and Steven D. GreenbergJeffrey A. GrossmanStella and Charles Guttman

Foundation, Inc.Sandra and Leonard HaikenMarc Heller/CIT Trade FinanceBecky and Ike HerschkopfPeter and Stacy Hochfelder

Charitable FoundationNathaniel JacobsonJewish Community

Youth FoundationThe Katcher Family FoundationPhilip W. KirshEugene M. LangMarcia and Neil LawnerDalia and Laurence C. Leeds, Jr.Leslie and Jim LevyThe Samuel M. Levy

Family FoundationRobin and Jay L. LewisThe Malkin Fund, Inc.The Honorable Gale Brewer/

Manhattan Borough President’s Office

Steven and Toby Mayer Charity Fund

Jay Mazur/21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund

Lisa and Wayne S. Miller/ G-III Apparel Group

Y.H. Mirzoeff & Sons Foundation Inc.

National Trust Insurance ServicesNew York City Department for

the Aging/The Honorable Donna M. Corrado

Maria and Michael OsheowitzMaria and Vincent PascalElliott C. RoschPhilip J. Rosenthal/

Global Coverage, Inc.Barbara and John SamuelsonJackie and David Schiro

Jacqueline SchnabelHarshad Shah/

Leyland Group LLCCaroline SheinbaumDonna and Barry SlotnickAshley Steinhart/

Lowenstein Sandler LLPLaurie and Sy SternbergStoller Family Charitable

Lead Annuity TrustSun Hill FoundationLola and Leonard TanzerJudy and Warren Tenney

FoundationMichael Tuch Foundation, Inc.The Eli and Arlene Wachtel

Charitable FoundationSharon and Joel WallerKaren and Rick WhiteLinda Filer and Bradford Wiley II

Shimon Wolf/Wolf Maryles & Associates LLC

Ray Kurdziel and Howard ZarBeth and Scott Zucker

Gifts of $500 and overBarbra and Frank ArnoldRene Bloch FoundationRoberta and Stanley M. BogenIrwin A. Cantor Family FundLisa B. and Edmund CohenMartin EliasDonald B. EpsteinDavid A. FeldmanGlendale Foundation, Inc.The Goodman Family

Charitable FundSylvia G. GordonAnita W. GraberJay Bruno and William F. GratzJill and Hank Grishman

Claudia and Sheldon HirshonSally and Roger HoffmanJ.E. JonesThe Kandell FundAlyce and Steven KaplanEdwin A. MargoliusNina MogilnikLawrence OrensteinSusan and Alan J. PatricofRandy PolumboMarleen Meyers and

Stanley RogovinMartin and Florence Rothman

Donor Advised FundDavid L. SchiffIra SchulmanThe Peter Daniel Seligman

FoundationDebra and Gary M. SofferKaren Freedman and

Roger WeisbergNorman I. WeismanDavid WroclawskiNora and Barry YoodThe Sarah and Harold Zalesch

Fund, Inc.Sherry Jacobson and

Eugene L. Zuriff

Gifts of $250 and overHirschel B. AbelsonAnonymous (2)Joel BarishSusan and Bruce BergerCynthia C. Wainwright

and Stephen BergerRoberta BerkenTami and Mark BermanCatherine Cahill and

William BernhardMr. and Mrs. Stuart BerniDebra and Peter B. BerryLouis H. BlumengartenJenny Carchman and

Seth BomseBobbi and Barry CollerRaymond ConnorsJoan K. DavidsonEssig Enright Family FoundationClarice FeinmanGloria and Stan FishfaderVicki FleisherThe Anne and Gerald Freedman

Charitable Foundation, Inc.Deborah S. Freedman

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Maralyn FriedmanPhyllis H. and

Seymour GartenbergGE FoundationMichael Giordano/

Paper EnterprisesThe Jane and Lawrence Gould

Charitable FundSusan Steinhauser and

Daniel GreenbergJudy and Stuart HershonDavid Himelberg FoundationJudy D. and Zachary I. HodesMr. and Mrs. Joseph HorowitzJanice and Lewis KampelNora and Steven KandelSivia Kaye Charitable Gift FundPenny M. and David J. KleinWilliam KleinJoann and Robert Todd LangAnn and Melvin J. LevyTina LubinCabot MarksJoanna MastroianniFaith MenkenMatthew and Amy Stein MilfordNina Allyn MoinesterLaurence J. MurphySaul RawSheila and Lester Robbins

Philanthropic FundMelvin K. RosemanMurray RosenSheri and James RosenfeldBonnie and Mordechai RozanskiEsther SametSusan and Norman SchulmanEsther Esh Sternberg FoundationAlisse WaterstonDr. Harold S. YoodThe Gellin Zalaznick

Foundation Inc.

Gifts of $100 and overElie AbemayorAmy B. AbrahamsCarole and Israel AbramcykArthur S. AbramsonMindy Lang and Ken AndruskoKen Marks/Ann Service

CorporationAnonymous (3)The David Aronow

Foundation Inc.Roberta Ashkin

Susan and Eric BaelenNorma and Paul G. BarashAnita and William BaronStanley L. BarrishNan BasesSandy BeckCarol and Terry BeckerCarole BehrmanJanine BeichmanMartin M. BellMarilyn BelousGloria Berkenstat FreundRosalie and Larry BermanMichael BermanMurray BermanLori Zeltser and

Leonard BermanArleen Levine Bernstein

and David BernsteinGladys B. BernsteinFrances and Myron BerrickDebra BerryMarc E. BersonStephen BigmanKaren and Leslie BlacksburgJoan and Charles BlanksteenJoan and David BlitzErika BloomfieldLois D. BlumenfeldBruce BolterAmy BoorsteinWilliam S. BoorsteinHarriet BoxerTammy BraininNorma and Melvin BreiteBetsy BroderElaine and Michael BroidaFran BrooksBrout Family FundPhyllis E. and Irwin L. BrowarskyBarbara BrownSandy and Allen BruneAndrea BurgerDavid BurginNancy BursteinAndrew ByrneJoshua R. CammakerErin CantorJules ChametzkyJackie Chan-BrownBette CohenRuth and Edward CollierNorah ColtonBarbara Bell CookJeffrey Cosiol

Eileen and Howard CottonEsther E. CrainBarbara and Frederick CroninLinda and Teo DagiJessica and Andrew P. DavisCharles DimstonIra DonewitzDoris and Leo DreyfussMartin DvorkinBarry, Hilit, Tillirose, and

August EdelsteinHoward S. EdelsteinHenry L. EhrlichNatalie and Michael Eigen

David EisenbergAnn and Howard M. EisenstodtPeg EmpleHoward G. EpsteinAsher EtkinSharon and Michael FalconeGeorgia FeingoldEdith Gross and Yoseph FeitHoward FeldmanAlan FersterRobert E. FidotenHilda and David FinsSheila FishmanSander A. Flaum Charitable TrustMarilyn FlemingThe Forest Family

Foundation, Inc.Charles A. FormaJane FrankEdith and Sol FreedmanJoe-Tom Easley and

Peter FreibergLisa FriedlanderEphraim Garber

Sarah A. GelberRabbi David Gelfand/

Temple Israel of NYCMartin R. GellerLaura GerchikAdelle GerstenThe Honorable

Ruth Bader GinsburgRandy GlobusMonica GoldStacey and Jeff GoldfarbArlene GoldmanLucy Goldman Fund of the JCFRachel GoldmanLinda J. and Richard A. GoldsteinStuart GoldsteinGilbert GordonPaul GordonPaul GordoyGail P. and Edward G. GreenPaul GreenbergThe Burton G. and Anne C.

Greenblatt Foundation, Inc.Ira J. GreenblattDena and Abraham GreensteinLaurel and Steven GriffMelanie H. GrishamBarbara GroddDoris Ruth and Alan GrohPaul L. GrossMark A. GrossbardPhilip J. Hahn FoundationThe Hammerman

Charitable TrustSarah and Joel L. HandelmanDavid J. HellersteinDave HenigThe Herman Family

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Ralph HillmanShelly HirschBernice and Jack S. HoffingerHollander FoundationAllan A. HorlandPaula and Kenneth HornAllisse Waterston and

Howard HorowitzRobert Vincent HuberMrs. Taube ImportRose and Michael JacobsohnCara and Leonard KaganFrances A. and Kenneth M. KahnBernard KalbBarbara and Steven KantorRita and Henry Kaplan

FoundationKarasik Family Fund of the JCFBarbara S. KarlinStanley KatzAlyce H. KaufmanRobert A. KaveshBetty and Howard KerpenMarc KlapholzCarol KleinPatti and Harvey KleinRoberta and Melvyn KleinPatricia KlemzLynn and Morris KletzkinJanet T. KlionVivian and Stuart KoenigElla KohnCarol and Elliott KominskySevilla and Aaron H. KommelJudith and Martin KonikoffEli KopelmanMarc KorashanClaire and Richard KornRoberta KozaBenjamin Kracauer/ArchimuseBarbara and Seymour KrasnerAlan C. KriegerCarol H. and Robert D. KrinskyNaomi and Paul KronishDavid F. KuckJonathan Myles KushnerRuth LaibsonBerton M. LapidusLinda and Sherwin LenerSondra S. and Stanley A. LeonDonald LevinLinda LevittThe Lorber Foundation

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Fern and Lew LowenfelsBonnie and Lloyd LowingerRenee LuebkeMorris MansfieldClaire and Edward MargoliesJacob MargoliesLori Zabar and Mark MariscalBernard MartinSilvia MarxAnne and Stephen MathRita and Robert MatthewsRichard E. McGrathCarole and David MetzgerTimothy L. MichelPaula MichtomSusan and Allan MillerJennie Parnes MillerSandra MillesInger and Mark MirskyMaxine L. MyersRuth NadelAnne and Victor S. NavaskySusan NegroWinifred G. and Gustave NewmanSteven A. OkinPhilip OppenheimerHarry OttermanSylvia ParnesMichael PastonJoan Lee and Richard PerfitCheryl and Lloyd PineRos and Michael PloskerSteven PollackDr. and Mrs. Richard H. PollenLauren K. PopkoffSidney Lee PoselBetsy PosnerSusan and Gerald PostRabbi Joseph PotasnikLaVerne L. PragerRabbi Marshal and Laurie PressPreston Family TrustCynthia RawitchElizabeth and Eugene RenkinFred M. RichmanStephen L. RichmondGail R. Gremse and David S. RoseKelly A. RosenGay RosenbergLeona Z. RosenbergBarbara Minakakis and

Marian RosenbergMonroe H. Rosner

Lori L. Cohen and Christopher H. Rothko

Martha and John M. RozettJill SacksGreer Rivlin SaltzmanJane and Martin SalwenJill W. and Lawrence SandbergNicholas SantoraMichael SarverCharlotte Barnard and

Robert SawyerHoward SchainAnnette Sally SchecterEugene SchillerGloria, Dorothy and

David SchulbergHelen SchulbergJeffrey SchulbergHarvey SchulmanHarvey SchusslerRise SchwabDaniel SchwartzElliot SchwartzEthan, Julie Bookbinder,

and Jon SchwartzHermine M. SeidenbergJay W. SeligmanTeresa Taylor and Art ShamskyLina Ann ShaneNancy Rubenstein and

Robert Y. ShapiroMichael L. and

Vivien Brodkin ShelanskiMr. and Mrs. Dror D. ShnayerRhonda and David SiegelSharon and Jeffrey R. SilverDr. and Mrs. Lawrence SilverVivian and Meyer SilverElliot SilversteinAllen J. SimonsonSusan and Gary SingerBarrett N. SinowitzMr. and Mrs. Robert SiskinTzvi SitzerDouglas A. SkolnickStella SkuraHanna Griff Sleven

and Paul SlevenMr. and Mrs. Abraham J. SmallMardi and David T. SmithJoannie C. and James C. SmithWillard J. SmithSO Charitable Trust

Carol and Steven SokolLaurence T. SorkinKatherine SperlingAllla SpiegelHenry M. SpinelliDr. and Mrs. Morton E. Spitzer Regina SteinSharon L. SteinMelvin A. SteinSylvia and David Steiner

Charitable TrustGary SteinkohlSandy L. SternWilliam H. StrangeMarilyn and Alan TannenbaumZiv TavorSusan W. TofiasDeborah S. and Michael Troner

Paul TuchmanTuchman, Korngold, Weiss,

Lippman & GellesRuth and Stuart TurnerMarcia F. and Richard S. VolpertEileen Wilk WalshMarian M. Warden FundIra WarrenMr. and Mrs. Arnold WassermanBeth Berman WechslerBeverly WeinsteinMax WeintraubElaine and Robert D. WeissAmy and Robert J. WellerPenny and Ted WilliamsDavid A. and Shoshanna

Wingate FoundationLewis WirshbaJanine B. YamamotoMartin ZeigerMeyer ZinnHeddy J. ZirinPenni S. Zola

1887 SocietyEstate of Leona K. AdlerEstate of Lucie BlauEstate of David J. FoxEstate of Rose FreemanEstate of Blanche K. GoldbergEstate of Fanny GoldfarbEstate of Samuel N. GoldsteinEstate of Peryl GottesmanJulius W. Graber Memorial FundEstate of Lillian GrossEstate of Stella Freeman HarmonEstate of Miriam JacobsEstate of Louis KatzowitzEstate of Emma LandauEstate of Elaine Lowell/

Lowell TrustEstate of Selma MerkinEstate of Harriet MessingerEstate of Beatrice PalestinEstate of Freda R. ResnikEstate of Ada RovinskyEstate of Matilda Gross ScheinerEstate of Meyer SmolenEstate of Elvira and Herbert WellerEstate of Zelda W. WernerEstate of Alexander Wincberg

Public SupportThe Honorable Margaret Chin/

New York City CouncilInstitute for Museum and

Library ServicesThe Honorable Scott Stringer/

Manhattan Borough President’s Office

National Endowment for the ArtsNew York City Department

for the AgingNew York City Department of

Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council

New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

New York State Assembly/ The Honorable Sheldon Silver

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

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2014 INCOME BY SOURCE PERCENT OF TOTAL

2014 EXPENSES BY SOURCE PERCENT OF TOTAL

GALA(NET OF EXPENSES)26%

PROGRAMS37%

INDIVIDUALS(INCLUDES DIRECT MAIL, NET OF EXPENSES)20%

GALA7%

FOUNDATIONSAND CORPORATIONS21%

FUNDRAISING8%

TOURS/ADMISSION11%

MANAGEMENT& GENERAL9%

RESTORATION& BUILDING39%

OTHER EARNED INCOME 6%

GOVERNMENT16%

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DONATEYour tax-deductible contribution supports the care and maintenance of the Eldridge Street Synagogue, a National Historic Landmark, and cultural and educational programs for people of all backgrounds. Special opportunities include gifts to honor or memorialize loved ones, our Glass Block Dedication Tribute Wall permanent naming opportunities, and our 1887 Society planned giving program.Learn more: 212.219.0888 x202 or email ebrune@eldridgestreet.org

VOLUNTEERBecome a docent and share the story of our landmark building with people from around the world. Join our student internship program and be a part of the day-to-day operations of one of New York City’s leading Jewish museums.Learn more: 212.219.0302 x5 or email cbyrnemitchell@eldridgestreet.org

CELEBRATECelebrate your lifecycle event, family reunion or important occasion at our magnificent National Historic Landmark.Learn more: 212.219.0888 x204 or email bdimun@eldridgestreet.org

SPREAD THE WORDBring your friends, family, colleagues and out-of-town visitors. Recommend a group visit to your house of worship, club, community center or school.Learn more: 212.219.0302 x5 or email cbyrnemitchell@eldridgestreet.org

CONNECT

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Michael Weinstein, Chairman

Lorinda Ash, President

Kenneth L. Stein, Vice President

Paul Rich, Treasurer

Mark Mirsk, Secretary

Roberta Brandes Gratz, Founder and President Emeritus

Lisa M. AfrickSuzy BoshwitMildred Caplow*Eric CohlerEster R. FuchsArlene GoldfarbJeffrey R. GuralArthur KorantJonathan L. MechanicDavid MooreRichard RabinowitzRhonda SilverDavid SitzerMichele Cohn TocciTai Chin TungSteven WalseyJeffrey S. WilksHoward Zar

*deceased

STAFF

Bonnie Dimun, Executive Director

Amy Stein-Milford, Deputy Director

Eva Bruné, Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Courtney Byrne-Mitchell Director of Visitor Services

Hanna Griff-Sleven Director of Cultural Programs and Internships

Judy Greenspan Director of Education

Nancy Johnson, Archivist

Rachel Serkin Education Associate

Sharon Stein Visitor Services Associate

Walter Hernandez Building Maintenance

Oscar Perez, Building Manager

DOCENTS

Roberta Berken Master Docent

Harriet BenjaminMara BernsteinMelvyn BirnbaumBette CohenClarice FeinmanBarry FeldmanJane FrankNaomi GatLyla GlenerRochelle GoldsteinGil GordonAnita GraberBarbara GreenbergLee GreenbergAnna HessaBarbara HornLeah HorowitzJan KampelHerb KassLinda KatzSandra KleinhandlerJenna KronenbergRoberta KozaPatti MyersLiz OffenbachSeth OffenbachGitty Prus

Shelley RonesJoan RosenblattJanis RudenAmy SalantErynn SarnoMitchell SchecterJoyce ShenkerDavid SilverMaxine SimsonSusan SlaterEsta SteinMiryam WassermanSylvia WeinerZoe YatesBarry Yood Henry Zimring

INTERNS

Taylor Baker Brandeis University

Alexandra BondsMeredith Carroll

Grinnell CollegeRebecca Galpern

Baruch CollegeLuna Goldberg

Hampshire CollegeSarah Hong

Eugene Lang College/ The New School

Anna Shneyderman Eugene Lang College/ The New School

Ellie Schwartz Yeshiva University

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The Museum at Eldridge Street, a non-sectarian cultural organization in Lower Manhattan, is preserving and interpreting the historic 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, a magnificent National Historic Landmark that re-opened in December 2007 after an extensive, $20 million restoration. Since then, more than 260,000 people from around the world have participated in tours, cultural events, exhibits and educational programs that present the history and heritage of this historic house of worship and the Jewish immigrant community of the Lower East Side.

MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET | 12 ELDRIDGE STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10002 | 212.219.0888 |ELDRIDGESTREET.ORG