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This new online curriculum uses primary sources to explore the role of American Jews in the Civil Rights and Labor Movements. Educators working in both formal and informal settings can use the materials in their entirety or choose individual lessons to teach.

Discover, explore, and share the rich history of Jewish women

New Home, New Life

For those of you wondering about the fate of the peripatetic theatre legend Judith Malina, there’s good news. The Forward...

May 21, 1907

Atlantic City hotel apologizes to Bertha Rayner Frank for anti-Jewish discrimination

The proprietors of the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel in Atlantic City apologized to Bertha Rayner Frank for her experience with anti-Jewish...

Temple Avodah

Oceanside, NY

On September 15, 1955, Betty Robbins, the world's first female cantor, led Rosh Hashanah evening services at Temple Avodah...

Ruby Blue

Singer and Yoga Teacher

Given the Indian name of Neeladevi by her guru in the late l960s, she became Swami Neeladevananda at her investiture in Orleans, France in 2005....

Regina Jonas

Regina Jonas, the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi, was killed in Auschwitz in October 1944.

20th Century CE

Germany