In June, Akron native Courtney Krieger joined Maltz Museum staff as Manager of Student Learning and Community Engagement. Prior to joining the Maltz team, she taught in the Jewish Studies Department at The Lippman School in Akron, Ohio. Courtney also…
Irene Shaland and her husband Alex have a lifelong passion for travel, evidenced by the fact that their daughter had visited 24 countries even before graduating high school. Irene, an author, educator and lecturer, regularly captivates Maltz Museum audiences with…
Last night, for an hour or so here at the Maltz Museum, the antidote to our country’s state of conflict felt shockingly, impossibly simple. How do we overcome fear and mistrust? We meet people, we talk to them and we…
In June, Maltz Museum Members shared a bagel and coffee with the Honorable Judge Bruce J. Einhorn, a former Special Federal Prosecutor and Chief of Litigation for the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special investigations. In that capacity, Judge Einhorn…
The Torah commands us to wear Tzitzit (fringes) at the corners of our garments as a reminder of mitzvot (good deeds). The mitzvah to wear tzitzit applies only to four-cornered garments, which were common in biblical times but are not…
Don’t forget to pack your Maltz Museum Membership before you set off on a summer getaway. Members at the Advocate ($150), Upstander ($250), Champion ($500) and Founder ($1000) levels receive reciprocal benefits to hundreds of museums throughout the United States and…
We are looking for enthusiastic and curious individuals to become a part of the Maltz Museum’s volunteer community as docents. By helping museum-goers get more out of their visit, docents are an essential part of the guest experience. Guiding tours is…
Our most recent exhibition, Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann, features seven films, 70 photographs and 60 recently declassified espionage artifacts never-before-seen outside of Israel. The 1960 forensic crime lab file you see here contains the conclusions of police experts regarding the…
Technology is part of our lives today like never before. To observe Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) we can light a candle. And now, in addition to lighting a real candle, we can light a virtual one. Members of our temple…
The wedding dress you see here is part of our core exhibition. Is it familiar? The garment was on display when the Maltz Museum first opened in 2005. For preservation purposes, it was later rotated out and replaced with the darker…
