{"id":22428,"date":"2010-10-18T17:58:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T17:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sabbath_compromise_at_philly_museum_of_u-s-_jewish_history\/"},"modified":"2010-10-18T17:58:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T17:58:57","slug":"sabbath_compromise_at_philly_museum_of_u-s-_jewish_history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22428","title":{"rendered":"Sabbath compromise at Philly museum of U.S. Jewish history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five-story museum next to Independence Mall, scheduled to open Nov. 26, is dedicated to chronicling 350 years of Jewish life in America and establishing a home base for scholarly meetings and community discussions.<\/p>\n<p>But The Philadelphia Inquirer says officials had to decide whether to open on Saturdays, even though Jewish law forbids work and commercial transactions on the Sabbath. The alternative was closing on the day and turning away thousands of visitors \u201d\u201d as well as up to a quarter of the anticipated admission revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Rosenzweig, the museum&#8217;s president and chief executive officer, says there was &#8220;not a simple answer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-10-18-sabbath18_ST_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five-story museum next to Independence Mall, scheduled to open Nov. 26, is dedicated to chronicling 350 years of Jewish life in America and establishing a home base for scholarly meetings and community discussions. But The Philadelphia Inquirer says officials<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22428\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,130,149,133,429,155,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-art","category-economy","category-history","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}