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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Lily Winner and immigration, then and now

Ninety-one years ago today, journalist and playwrite Lily Winner published an essay in The Nation entitled "American Emigrés." She...

May 16, 1999

Angela Warnick Buchdahl invested as first Asian-American cantor

Angela Warnick Buchdahl was invested as the first Asian American cantor. Two years later, she became the first Asian American rabbi.

New York's 18th Congressional District represented by Nita Lowey

White Plains, NY

Nita Melnikoff Lowey has represented constituents in New York's 18th Congressional District since 1993. Before that, Lowey served as Representative...

Bette Berman Arnold

Boston Restaurateur

She always treated everyone the same regardless of race, gender, class, or age. She knew innately that these things were right. It took society a...

Gertrude Stein

1874 - 1946

Gertrude Stein, the American modernist writer, was an international celebrity, an artistic iconoclast, and a self-proclaimed genius. Her...