On October 23, 2022, approximately 50 SJMC members and spouses went on a field trip in a classic yellow school bus to the National Museum of American Jewish History, located on Independence Mall and directly across from the Liberty Bell in the heart of Philadelphia. Our purpose was to connect with the 350-year-plus history of Jews in America. We were welcomed by the museum’s director, ushered through security, and then divided up into smaller groups, each with a trained docent. The docents took us chronologically through our history, highlighting George Washington’s letter to the Hebrew congregation in Newport, Rhode Island (to bigotry no sanction), colonial life, the Civil War, westward expansion, the great immigration (1880-1920), World War I, the Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, and movement to the suburbs. Also, there were exhibits on Jews in the arts, entertainment, politics, and the military.