Advice for a museum in Israel

[Jason Goldstein]

I have been in touch with Rabbi Slifkin who runs the Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh Israel (Beit Shemesh means house of the sun).   I mentioned that it would be good to have a planetarium and he agreed after he posted this.  

"At the Biblical Museum of Natural History, we have a gift store, selling various animal- and science-related souvenirs. One of the most significant items that we sell is a globe that shows the global distribution of animals. The original thought was that it was the zoological aspect of it that was significant, but we realized that it’s the globe itself which attracts attention.

One charedi {Ultra religious individual from very insular communities in Israel} visitor - an adult - was shocked when he saw it. “That’s the whole world?!” he asked in amazement. That in turn may sound shocking to readers here, but that’s only because we are so used to seeing depictions of planet Earth, with everything from globes to the Universal Studios logo. If you grow up in a sheltered chareidi environment, you may never have seen it."   

https://www.rationalistjudaism.com/p/flat-earth-reaches-israel

Any advice on how he would get started?   The museum's goal is to show the natural world as it relates to Israel and Judaism. Also to do it in a way that people from the insular  chareidi   world would be comfortable going to.  (For instance he simply avoids talking about the age of the Earth or evolution so people see some Science).

This is his Linkdin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/natanslifkin/

Thanks.

[Stephen Pribut]

I’ll send some material directly to you. But from what I’ve seen from a quick search, the charedi may be too far out of the mainstream and separatist to make material that works for them as meaningful for others. 

 

Steve

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