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Upcoming Day Trips

The Council offers approximately three day trips each year to Washington D.C., New York, and other destinations. Our program consists of a morning visit to a cultural site such as the National Gallery (D.C.), Metropolitan Museum (N.Y.), or the Baltimore Museum of Art with a substantive afternoon briefing at an embassy, United Nations mission, or a think tank.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

New York day trip confirmed
Jewish Museum — Dead Sea Scroll exhibit and Anti-Defamation League briefing on Middle East

Join us for a day trip to New York to the Jewish Museum to view a very special exhibition, The Dead Sea Scrolls. This exhibition will present six Dead Sea Scrolls complemented by objects excavated from the site near where they were found. Three of the scrolls have never been exhibited, including part of one of the three earliest copies of the Hebrew Bibles in existence, and three others have never been shown in New York.

In the afternoon, we will have a briefing at the Anti-Defamation League with deputy national director Kenneth Jacobson. Dr. Jacobson will discuss the progress of Israeli foreign relations, especially those with Syria, which is now open to the idea of diplomatic relations with Israel.

Members: $85; Non-Members: $95 (Pick-up Bala Cynwyd; Center City; Cherry Hill)

For more information, please call 215-561-4700, ext. 217.