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Current Exhibitions

“Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait

“Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait

Ongoing

Discover the many different ways of “being Jewish” in the Bay Area through this mural of community photos, and objects which reflect the flavor of Jewish life in the Bay Area, both past and present.
 StoryCorps StoryBooth

StoryCorps StoryBooth

October 12, 2008 - November 7, 2010

The Contemporary Jewish Museum is the first museum in the country to host a StoryCorps StoryBooth. StoryCorps is a New York-based oral history project founded and directed by award-winning documentary artist and MacArthur Fellow Dave Isay.
Jews on Vinyl

Jews on Vinyl

And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl

February 6, 2009 - Spring 2010

Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Josh Kun and Roger Bennett's new book: And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost, which spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s, weaving an account that begins with sacred songs and ends with the holy trinity of Neil, Barbra, and Barry.

 As It Is Written: Project 304,805

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

The Torah Project

October 8, 2009 - October 3, 2010

As It Is Written: Project 304,805 is centered around a soferet (a professionally trained female scribe) who while on public view will write out the entire text of the Torah over the course of a full year.  In addition, there will be a series of displays that explore the Torah in its many facets, and new works responding to sections of the Torah.

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