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Philly, you showed up! 💙 Our inaugural “Meet Me at The Weitzman” with Hen Mazzig and Mike Solomonov was one for the book...
10/19/2026

Philly, you showed up! 💙 Our inaugural “Meet Me at The Weitzman” with Hen Mazzig and Mike Solomonov was one for the books.

Good stories, great company, and plenty of Jewish joy. Thanks to everyone who made our first gathering so special!

Keep up with future events happening at The Weitzman: https://heyor.ca/Q3vhMI

Shabbat Shalom! 🕯️🍷 The challah is ready. The w**e is chilling. Now, how’s the table looking? From colorful candleholder...
10/16/2026

Shabbat Shalom! 🕯️🍷 The challah is ready. The w**e is chilling. Now, how’s the table looking?

From colorful candleholders to the perfect serving dish, find everything you need to set the scene for Shabbat at the Museum Store: https://heyor.ca/3jXvqs

Welcome to your next Jewish Joy 101 lesson—just in time for matzah ball soup season. 🍲 Whether it’s a family recipe, you...
10/15/2026

Welcome to your next Jewish Joy 101 lesson—just in time for matzah ball soup season. 🍲 Whether it’s a family recipe, your go-to deli order, or simply the thing you want the second there’s a chill in the air, matzah ball soup has a way of tasting like home.

Hungry yet? Swipe for more. ➡️

10/14/2026

On October 21, we're setting the table for our annual Women's Leadership Forum Luncheon at The Weitzman, featuring New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ostler.

Join as we celebrate inspiring and influential women leaders in the Jewish community with a catered lunch, a VIP museum tour, and a conversation with Catherine about 'The Renoir Girls,' and the real women whose lives inspired her latest book: https://heyor.ca/MLuQ5i

10/11/2026

Saturday Night Live premiered on this day in 1975, with Jewish American comedian Gilda Radner among its original cast.

Roseanne Roseannadanna. Baba Wawa. Emily Litella. Gilda’s characters became part of SNL and comedy history.

51 years later, which Gilda character still gets you every time? 😂👇

(🎥: Love Gilda | Original SNL footage: NBC)

Klezmer is giving major Main Character Energy right now.For four decades, The Klezmatics have done something remarkable:...
10/08/2026

Klezmer is giving major Main Character Energy right now.

For four decades, The Klezmatics have done something remarkable: taken a nearly lost tradition and made it thrillingly, joyfully alive.

On October 15, the Grammy Award-winning ensemble brings its 40th Anniversary World Tour to The Weitzman for a night celebrating the music’s endurance, creativity, and hope by the people who reinvented it.

Buy tickets today: https://heyor.ca/Mjb3cW

10/07/2026

To remember is to bear witness.

Three years after October 7, Nova music festival survivor Natalie Sanandaji reminds us of something each of us can do: listen to the stories of those who were there, and make sure what happened is known.

Today, we remember the lives lost on October 7, honor those forever changed, and make space for the voices carrying their experiences forward.

10/06/2026

All the colors. All the feels. Now FREE. 🌈 Step inside the "Colors of Creation," our immersive family experience filled with movement, music, play, and plenty of wonder for everyone.

Don't miss it while it's free for a limited time! Plan your visit today: https://heyor.ca/95HGqj

October is National Book Month, so we pulled a stack from the Museum Store: Jewish history and language, food and celebr...
10/05/2026

October is National Book Month, so we pulled a stack from the Museum Store: Jewish history and language, food and celebration, big ideas, powerful firsthand stories, and a little fiction to unwind at the end of the day.

Shop the shelf: https://heyor.ca/bdaRjl

Tomorrow night begins Simchat Torah, a holiday built around a cycle that never really ends. 🔁Over the course of the year...
10/02/2026

Tomorrow night begins Simchat Torah, a holiday built around a cycle that never really ends. 🔁

Over the course of the year, Jewish communities read through the Torah, the first five books in the Hebrew Bible. On Simchat Torah (Hebrew for "Rejoicing in the Torah") the end of Deuteronomy is read, and then the cycle begins again with Genesis.

The occasion is celebrated with hakafot, joyful processions in which Torah scrolls are carried around the synagogue amid singing and dancing.

📸: Photograph, Ted Parris holding the Torah at his Bar Mitzvah. Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, 1994.17.8.

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