Sunday marks the grand opening of the new Contemporary Jewish Museum in downtown San Francisco. It is a free-admission day, but the tickets were all booked up when I showed up in the morning. Funny enough, an old lady in front of me, in the same situation, asked me to join her in her attempt to pull some "strings." It turned out that she knows some Jewish big names in the Bay Area and was also serving as a guide for her friend, a Benedictine monk from Florence, Italy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get in but we did get a discounted ticket to come back another day. The old lady mused how often Italians resort to "connections," real or imagined, to get ahead in line.
To read more about the CJM, see the New York Times' article.
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