Join JWA in paying tribute to the generations of Jewish American women who have helped form the fabric of American history, culture and society.

In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, JWA launches a new community oral history project featuring nine women from Washington, D.C.

MyBatMitzvahStory.org is a safe, fun online setting in which bat-mitzvah-age girls explore and express their emerging identities. MBMS offers a variety of ways to enrich and personalize a Jewish girl's coming of age.

Living the Legacy - curriculum on Jews and the Civil Rights Movement

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.

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Rebecca Lubetkin's 60th Bat Mitz-versary

“It’s funny how practices that seem way out in one generation become so commonplace in another that people wonder what took so long. With...

"Women Resume Riots Against Meat Shops" New York Times

May 15, 1902

Jewish women protested kosher meat prices on Lower East Side

In 1902, Jewish women on the Lower East Side organized a massive boycott of the kosher beef industry, demanding lower prices.

College of St. Joseph

Rutland, VT

Sylvia Willard, founder of the Vermont Actors' Repertory Theatre, taught drama at the College of St. Joseph. Ms. Willard died in 2006, at the...

Adrienne Cooper

Performer, Interpreter of Yiddish Song

Beyond her extraordinary artistic accomplishments, Adrienne was a mentor, resource, and role model to so many who have lived, or at least sojourned,...

Judith Plaskow

b. 1947

Judith Plaskow is the first Jewish feminist to identify herself as a theologian. Deeply learned in classical and modern Christian theology yet...