smithsonian Archives – Jewish Journal

3x Finalist! What are the SoCal Journalism Awards?

Lisa Ellen Niver June 5, 2018

August 2017 NEWS: Honored to be Published

Lisa Ellen Niver September 4, 2017

Autry president W. Richard West Jr. embodies American complexity

Tom Tugend May 1, 2013

W. (Walter) Richard West Jr., the new president and CEO of the Autry National Center, believes that a key job of this country’s museums is to interpret the complexity of the American heritage, and he embodies this mission both in his work and in his personal background.

A lesson From Cyrus

David A. Lehrer April 4, 2013

Kids, young adults and ideologues of different stripes often see the world as a straight-line progression — the world gradually, but inevitably, becomes more enlightened. Martin Luther King Jr. summarized the view, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”