Henry Kissinger, Barbra Streisand, the Three Stooges—they’re all Jewish and all in the running to be celebrated in the Only in America/Hall of Fame at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philly. Problem is they have some competition.
The museum is asking you (yes, even the Christians, Muslims, atheists, you name it) to make the big decision for the final line-up. The museum founders set-up a website where the public can decide which 18 Jewish Americans (past and present), “whose accomplishments should be recognized in a major museum exhibition,” will make it in the “Only in America” gallery to be erected in the museum opening late next year.
There’s also the Jewish-American Hall of Fame at the Magnes Museum in Berkeley, Calif., which has already honored Hank Greenberg, Barbra Streisand and Milton Berle, among others.
(Photo credit: Ed Hill/ Philadelphia Inquirer)