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Originally broadcast August 21, 2009<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

KIM LAWTON<\/strong>, guest anchor: Parents are often looking for entertaining and educational outings for their kids. An interactive museum in Brooklyn, New York helps children learn about the Jewish faith, from holidays to traditional rituals and Bible stories. Education director Rabbi Nissen Brenenson gave us a tour of the Jewish Children’s Museum.<\/p>\n

RABBI NISSEN BRENENSON<\/strong> (Director of Education, Jewish Children\u2019s Museum, Brooklyn, NY): As you approach the museum, the first thing you see is a giant photo mosaic, and as you get closer you realize that it\u2019s made up of thousands and thousands of smaller photographs of children of all ages, of all races. Then that contains a special message, and that is that we\u2019re really one.<\/p>\n

The gallery on the six days of Creation and the Shabbat, the Sabbath, contains a Shabbat table where you\u2019re actually walking on the table. There are Shabbat candlesticks, a giant crawl-through challah tunnel. Inside the tunnel, you can learn about the ingredients, the significance, of the special challah bread.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hanukkah is also a favorite. We have an olive oil pressing station where children can actually squeeze their own olive oil. They like to do that, and the olive oil represents the miracle of the oil that happened at the time of the Hanukkah story.<\/p>\n

I think we have the world\u2019s only touch-screen Seder plate, and by pressing the screen and selecting the various symbolic items on the Seder plate, the children can watch short clips of what these symbols represent and the story of Passover.<\/p>\n

The holiday of trees is called Tu B\u2019Shvat, and here at the museum we have our own special talking Tu B\u2019Shvat tree:<\/p>\n

Talking Tree: Tu B\u2019Shvat is my birthday.<\/em><\/p>\n

RABBI BRENENSON<\/strong>: He\u2019s sort of a storyteller and explains how man is compared to a tree in many ways. We have our roots, and that\u2019s our faith, and we also have our fruits, and those are the good deeds that we perform.<\/p>\n

The journey continues into our kosher supermarket, where children can scan products. Instead of coming up with prices, there are trivia questions about the kosher diet as well as a full-scale kosher kitchen.<\/p>\n

The last gallery on that floor focuses on values that are rooted in Jewish tradition but have also become universal, such as kindness\u2014kindness to others, kindness to animals, respecting the environment, charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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