"What Jewish life feels like today, as humans, is not reflected by most of our Jewish institutions...I think we all feel that there is a different Jewish experience in the 21st century than what we can even understand from the 20th century. And it's heading in a direction that is like nothing our museums are accustomed to. Jewish life is going to look and feel and present so differently in fifty years it's going to be astonishing."

-Melissa Martens Yaverbaum

We continue our series on the exhibit A Fence Around The Torah with a conversation about the mixed-media installation We Would Come Home But You've Locked The Door, which deals with themes of inclusion and exclusion in Jewish communities.

Daniel Toretsky is an artist and architectural designer based in Brooklyn. He plays trombone in the Hungry March Band and Mrs. Toretsky’s Nightmare.

Melissa Martens Yaverbaum is the Executive Director of the Council of American Jewish Museums, and was on the curatorial panel for A Fence Around The Torah. She also used to work at the Jewish Museum of Maryland.