page_title: Jack H. Skirball
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Jack H. Skirball / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: English: Entry court of the Skirball Cultural Center — in the Sepulveda Pass area of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles.
context_page_description: Jack H. Skirball was an American rabbi, film producer, real estate developer and philanthropist.
context_section_description: Skirball founded the Los Angeles School of Hebrew Union College. By 1972, he founded the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum, a museum of Jewish life near the campus of the University of Southern California. His goal was to show Christians and Jews that they shared much in common, and to ""dissipate" anti-Semitism." He later donated US$3.5 million to move it to a 15-acre plot of land in Brentwood, off the Sepulveda Pass, where it was renamed the Skirball Cultural Center.
  In 1985, Skirball founded the Skirball Institute on American Values, a program of the American Jewish Committee. He appointed rabbi Alfred Wolf was its director until 1996, when the latter was replaced by Eugene Mornell. The Skirball Institute organized inter-faith conferences, essay contests for high school students, academic research on American values, and offered scholarships to college students.
caption: Skirball Cultural Center.
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