$13.5M museum dedicated to Jewish Heritage
to open tuesday

Toledo Blade

BEACHWOOD, Ohio — The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, a $13.5 million facility illuminating the achievements, history, and traditions of the Jewish community will hold its grand opening here Tuesday.

The museum will feature thousands of artifacts and archival texts and photographs along with film, interactive computers, special effects, and other state-of-the-art technology to tell the personal stories of Ohio Jews.

“This museum will give both Jews and non-Jews a deeper understanding of the compelling Jewish story — its religious values, its history of both oppression and accomplishment, and its remarkable power of survival,” said Milton Maltz, who, with his wife, Tamar, donated $8 million toward the project.

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Sun Sentinel

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The Randolph Reporter
The Chabad House

A new Jewish center on West Hanover Avenue will be allowed to remain open during the High Holidays but will then have to shut until it gains required zoning, building and fire safety approvals.

Township officials said on Friday, Sept. 30, that the center known as Chabad of Randolph, failed to obtain zoning, building and fire safety approvals before opening its doors. Neighbors have complained that the center will add to traffic on busy West Hanover Avenue.

Chabad of Randolph relocated its worship and educational programs to a large home at 48 W. Hanover Ave. in the Mount Freedom section of town from the previous site in a home on Andrews Road.

Steely resolve on the rails

CBS2 Interviews R. Boruch Keivman

NY Newsday

Straphangers rode the rails with steely resolve Friday, saying they had no choice but to live their lives as they normally would.

“I’m not scared,” declared Boerum Hill resident Alexa Mahnken, 41, as she boarded the train in Brooklyn to go to her consulting job at Rockefeller Center. “There are subway fires and car crashes everyday. The risks are there. You just have to go about your business.”

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