The Museum features monthly lectures, concerts and multi-media programs related to Jewish life and culture through the Irving H. Stolz Series and other funding sources.

Programs for the Hebrew Home Family
Throughout the year the Museum provides lectures, holiday programs and art tours for the Hebrew Home residents and Jewish holiday education for Hebrew Home staff. The Museum also hosts a variety of programs, including Yiddish Vinkel (corner), and conferences.

14th Annual Historical Services Award for Excellence, Lower Hudson Conference of Historical Agencies and Museums, 1999.
Since 1987, with local Community School District, this program celebrates the students’ diversity, pride of heritage and sharing of their cultures.

The Judaica Museum programs are made possible by generous grants from the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York, the Center for Arts Education, the New York City Annenberg Challenge for Arts Education, the New York State Council for the Humanities.

The Judaica Museum is an educational resource and a repository of objects, paintings and textiles from Jewish religion, arts and culture. The extra-ordinary Ralph and Leuba Baum Collection of over 800 ceremonial objects is the centerpiece of it’s holdings, which in recent years has been enhanced by hundreds of other donations to the Museum. Located on the Main Campus of the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, the Museum overlooks the Hudson River and the Palisades and is the setting for many cultural, educational and social programs that enrich the lives of visitors from the greater metropolitan area.

In 1936, Ralph Baum, equipped with a camera and several pewter objects, emigrated to the United States from Elmshorn, Germany. Ralph and his wife, Leuba, from Dvinsk, Russia, had an intense desire to preserve and pass on to future generations the story of Jewish life and culture. Together, they collected Judaica for five decades and, in 1982, the Museum opened its doors to display the Baum’s gift to the Hebrew Home -- their cherished collection of Judaica.