Yeshiva Museum Goes Back to School

Image by Courtesy Yeshiva University Museum

By Forward Staff February 6, 2013

Yeshiva University Museum has received a grant of $135,900 to expand its Re-Imagining Jewish Education Through Art program. The grant comes from The Covenant Foundation, and is part of the $1.2 million in grants approved by the foundation in January. The foundation plans to distribute a total of $1.7 million this year.

According to a press release issued by YUM, the program follows a model of “creative aesthetic education” created by the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts and applies it to Jewish education. The museum will partner with the Lincoln Center Institute to train teachers in New York and elsewhere.

YUM has already run the program in three New York high schools — Heschel High School, SAR High School, and Yeshiva University’s Marsha Stern Academy (MTA) — as well as at the Kings Bay YM-YWHA. The museum plans to expand the program to at least six Jewish day schools. Gabriel Goldstein, a project director and independent curator, and Ilana Benson, a museum educator, will administer the program.

The grant follows on the heels of a $1.5 million grant from the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust to the Center for Jewish History, of which Yeshiva University Museum is one of five constituent organizations. The $1.5 million grant will create The Lillian Goldman Reference Services Division, which will serve all of the institutions at the CJH.

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