(JTA) — Two American Jewish philanthropists will donate $5 million each to the Beit Hatfusot museum in Tel Aviv.
The donations to Beit Hatfusot, formerly known as the Diaspora Museum, come from Cleveland’s Maltz Family Foundation, founded by Milton and Tamar Maltz, and from Alfred Moses, formerly President Carter’s liaison to the United States Jewish community and a former U.S. ambassador to Romania.
Moses’ gift, according to a press release from the museum, will be earmarked for the museum’s Great Hall of Synagogues, which will contain replicas of synagogues around the world spanning 3,000 years. The Maltz family has donated to several museums, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, both in Cleveland, and wants to see Beit Hatfusot develop an interactive educational platform for young visitors.
“These two significant gifts, which were pledged within weeks of each other, are important milestones in making the museum one of the key builders of the Jewish future,” Beit Hatfusot Chair Irina Nevzlin Kogan said in the press release. ‘The museum will tell and chart the narrative of our people as a whole, preserve many individual stories, and serve as a platform for Jews worldwide to connect to one another.”
