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DC’s new Jewish museum highlights Jews who shaped the nation’s capital, from a Confederate spy to RBG

JL;DR SUMMARY The new Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., offers an immersive exploration of Jewish history within the U.S. capital, spotlighting figures like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Confederate spy Eugenia Levy Phillips. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryJewish CommunityJewish IdentityRuth Bader GinsburgWashington D.C.Interactive ExhibitsCapital Jewish MuseumEugenia Levy PhillipsJudiciary SquareUlysses Grant

Places mentioned

Washington D.C., Washington DC, United States
"The interior of an 1876 synagogue that is the core of the new Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., June 1, 2023."
Paducah, Kentucky, United States
"Fourteen years earlier, as a Union general, he infamously expelled the Jews of Paducah, Kentucky, accusing them of being war speculators."
Maryland, United States
"The museum chronicles that communitys expansion from the capital to the Maryland and the Virginia suburbs, driven at times by Jews joining white flight."
Virginia, United States
"The museum chronicles that communitys expansion from the capital to the Maryland and the Virginia suburbs, driven at times by Jews joining white flight."

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