(Jewish Group) Why did the Academy leave the Jews out of its museum, anyway?

Amid all the controversy created over the Academy Museum’s initial decision not to include the story of the motion picture industry’s largely Jewish immigrant founders in its permanent exhibit, one question remains unanswered: Why?

Why would the museum organizers, with $484 million and more than 300,000 square feet, decide to tell the story of the motion picture industry and neglect to mention the people who created it?

The upcoming Oscars ceremony on March 27 has spurred more coverage of the story, which the Forward broke when the museum opened in October.

In The New York Times on Monday, Bill Kramer, the museum’s executive director, said that an exhibit on Hollywood’s founders was always under consideration. “We’ve long had this on our list to do,” he said, “and we knew this was going to be in our first rotations.”

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