The building is the former seat of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel until the 1990s. The building also serves as the Jerusalem Campus of Herzog College for their Masters in Education program,[1] and houses the Jewish Heritage Center and Museum of Jewish Art.
History
The building was erected between 1953 and 1958, following plans by German-born architect Alexander Friedman.
The building has housed the Jewish Heritage Center and Jewish Art Museum since 1992.
The Renanim Synagogue was transferred from Padua together with its 18th-century Torah ark and bimah, and decorated with modern stained glass windows. The Entrance Gallery displays temporary exhibitions of Israeli artists. The museum displaying traditional and modern Jewish art in permanent and temporary exhibitions is named in honour of British Jewish philanthropist, Sir Isaac Wolfson.