More weather by AccuWeather®

BOROUGH PRESIDENT MARTY MARKOWITZ CELEBRATES THE OPENING OF THE JEWISH CHILDREN’S MUSEUM ON BROOKLYN’S OWN “MUSEUM MILE”

Photographs by Kathryn Kirk
(from left to right): Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson, Councilmember David Yassky, and Borough President Marty Markowitz (top center); Senator Hillary Clinton and Devorah Halberstam (bottom).

Museum is dedicated in memory of Ari Halberstam on the first night of Chanukah

 On Tuesday, December 7, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz joined Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson and Devorah Halberstam to dedicate the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, other elected officials and members of the community also helped to cut the ribbon for the new museum.

“This groundbreaking museum is the first of its kind in the country, and makes a perfect addition to Brooklyn’s Museum Mile,” said Borough President Markowitz. “The Jewish Children’s Museum is about educating young people about Judaism, and more — it is about helping our kids be aware of the similarities that all individuals of every faith, every race and every culture share, as well as the differences that make us unique—because in Brooklyn we cherish the knowledge that we are all children of one G-d.”

The Museum was dedicated to the late Ari Halberstam, who was killed on the Brooklyn Bridge at the age of 16 when a gunman opened fire on a crowd of Orthodox Jewish students. Director of Foundation and Government Services Devorah Halberstam, his mother, has devoted her life to fighting terrorism after her son’s tragic death ten years ago.

The Jewish Children’s Museum adds to Brooklyn’s own growing Museum Mile on Eastern Parkway in Central Brooklyn, where the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum are also located.