*giggle*
Was just leafing through a book I was cataloguing here at work, called "Your neighbor celebrates" from the 1960s or so, and there was a random picture of the chapel at Brandeis, for some reason accompanying the section on "Rabbis and Cantors". So once upon a time there were curtains behind the ark, and the menorah was up on the bima. Go know. It was just sort of incongruent.