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National Museum of American Jewish History tells 'story of America through Jewish eyes'Sunday, November 14, 2010 @ 2:32AMIn the 1960s, a popular national ad campaign showed miscellaneous people - a wizened American Indian, a Chinese elder, Buster Keaton, an Irish cop, an angel-faced African American boy - biting into a luscious deli sandwich, with the caption: "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's real Jewish rye."

HP, Newseum Announce Major New Media GalleryThursday, September 30, 2010 @ 11:40AMWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HP (NYSE:HPQ) and the Newseum, an interactive museum devoted to issues related to the news media and society, today announced they are collaborating on a new, hands-on media gallery that will allow Newseum visitors to explore technology’s impact on the ever-evolving way that information is reported, distributed and accessed. Social media tools are empowering ...

HP, Newseum Announce Major New Media GalleryThursday, September 30, 2010 @ 11:30AMWASHINGTON----HP and the Newseum, an interactive museum devoted to issues related to the news media and society, today announced they are collaborating on a new, hands-on media gallery that will allow Newseum visitors to explore technology’s impact on the ever-evolving way that information is reported, distributed and accessed.

When Is a Glass Box Not Just a Glass Box?Wednesday, July 7, 2010 @ 2:40PMAnswer: when it houses Philadelphia’s new National Museum of American Jewish History. Scheduled to open in November, the museum is dominated by a massive glass facade and does not, at first glance, appear that different from other modernist glass and steel edifices in the United States. But looking behind the museum’s glass “veil” reveals a host of fascinating and often competing symbolic ...

Viewpoints: Journalism wanes not for lack of value, but of being valuedFriday, November 27, 2009 @ 8:17PMLike the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Newseum – Washington's museum dedicated to journalism – displays dinosaurs.

5 don't-miss spots in Washington, D.C.Thursday, June 4, 2009 @ 7:35PMBut if, to quote a perfectly fine airline ad, you want to get away from the crowds and stop going with the flow to create your own, I've got a few charming and exquisite, yet (shhh) undertraveled picks to share.

5 don't-miss spots in Washington, D.C.Friday, May 29, 2009 @ 4:16PMThe last time Ben Stiller got silly in a museum - that was in late 2006, in the first "Night at the Museum" - the American Museum of Natural History in New York that shared top billing with the movie star got a silly little 25 percent increase in attendance...