Join the Conversation for Jewish American Heritage Month—Let Us #EntertainJew.

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

Where's the Beef?

Today I googled the Wendy’s commercial of the early 1980s were an older woman uses the catchphrase “where’s the beef?!”....

May 25, 1929

Birth of opera star Beverly Sills

Birth of opera star and arts advocate Beverly Sills.

Politics and Prose Bookstore

Washington, DC

Carla Cohen wanted to create a charming and comfortable gathering place for the intellectually curious in DC. The Politics...

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