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2 unusual facts about Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art


Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe

Jerry O'Keefe was a major financial contributor and fundraiser for both the Walter Anderson Museum and the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art.

Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art

The museum is named for ceramic artist George E. Ohr (1857–1918), as well as Annette O'Keefe, late wife of former Biloxi mayor Jeremiah O'Keefe, Sr., who was instrumental in donating money and raising funds for the completion of the museum campus.


Bezalel Rudinsky

Rabbi Rudinsky is the rabbi of Congregation Ahavas Yitzchok (Agudath Yisroel of Wesley Hills) in Monsey, N.Y., and founder and Rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ohr Reuven and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Darchei Noam, both located in Wesley Hills, New York.

David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra

Keter Malkut ("Crown of Royalty") — prayers for Yom Kippur, first published with the above-mentioned Ohr Kadmon, reprinted in the Shevet Musar of Elijah ben Abraham Solomon ha-Kohen of Smyrna, and finally inserted by Heidenheim in the ritual for the eve of Yom Kippur.

Elchonon Wasserman

Rabbi Simcha Wasserman served as Dean of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in Detroit in the 1940s, founded Yeshiva Ohr Elchononin California in the 1950s, and later founded Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon in Jerusalem.

OHRRPGCE

Game Maker: The OHR is specialized towards RPGs, and as such, they are made both more easily and quickly on it.

Pleasant Reed House

In 2003, the House was moved to the new Frank Gehry-designed campus of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art, where it was restored and opened to the public for tours.

Yechezkel Sarna

When he was 11, he was sent to the Ohr Hachaim yeshiva in Slabodka, headed by Rabbi Tzvi Levitan, a student of the Alter of Kelm.

Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov-Ohr Eliyahu

As the school grew, Ohr Eliyahu relocated to a former Culver City public school near Kenneth Hahn State Park.

In April 2009, Yeshivah Aharon Yaakov-Ohr Eliyahu bought the former Daniel Murphy High School campus, located in the heavily Orthodox Jewish populated Fairfax District.


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