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Ago as chief curator. We have programs of music, literature, film. I introduced you as pretty and you are pritic. You know as we get older, our hearing isnt as better. I am sorry. Thats fine. One of the things lori asked me to do when i started a year ago, anniversary part, was to really ramp up the experience of the visitor the moment they set foot in the building. We wanted it not to be dry. Institutions can be cold. We wanted it to be celebratory when they walk in, before they even have to pay, to be confronted with our other jewish theme. I have done several things. The most spectacular is we have a gigantic art piece installed on the ceiling of the lobby by david blaine. Its 90 feet long, weighs six tons, and is titled lamp of the covenant. Its symbolic. Its covered with lights and globes. He talks about it as a model of this about the covenant between man and god which in judaism as you know, its all about the ongoing conversation about what is the nature of the covenant between ....

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