CAJM Executive Director Christine Beresniova, along with several CAJM member museums, recently shared insights with JTA on the serious risks that federal arts and culture funding cuts pose to the Jewish museum field. As Beresniova explains, “There could be a cascade effect from these kinds of drastic changes—not only in terms of funding or staffing but in the latent message being delivered that museums are somehow not essential to the communities they serve — which they are.”
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