Capital Jewish Museum
How Washington Put Jewish History in the Civic Center
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Jewish Institutions & Organizations
Museums, universities, nonprofits, archives, and organizations that built durable Jewish public infrastructure.
American Jewish World Service
How a Jewish Human Rights NGO Built a Global Mission
Yeshiva University
The Yeshiva University LGBTQ club dispute became a test of student support, Orthodox...
NALA and the Israeli NGO Model of Global Health
NALA built an Israeli global-health model around neglected tropical diseases,...
Egypt Is Restoring Synagogues. Can Jewish Heritage Survive Without...
Egypt has restored major synagogues and speaks more openly than it once did about Jewish...
Jewish Institutions That Shape Public Life
Synagogues, Schools, Courts, Museums, and the Organizations That Hold a Community Together
Jewish Museums in America
Memory, Public History, and the Institutions That Turn Heritage Into Civic Culture
Manchester's Jewish Community
How One British City Built a Jewish World of Its Own
Myanmar's Jews
How a Once-Visible Community Survived in One Synagogue
Paul Azaroff
Yiddish Teacher and Oral-History Witness
Shalhevet Girls Basketball
How an Orthodox School Made State History
The Broad
The Broad tested whether a free contemporary art museum built from private collecting...
The Yiddish Book Center
How a Book Rescue Became a Cultural Renaissance
Why the Weitzman Museum Matters for American Jewish History
The Weitzman Museum matters because it treats American Jewish history as part of the...
Jeremy England
Physicist, Origins of Life, and Thermodynamics
Adam Schiff
Prosecutor Behind a Career Around the Defense of Institutions
Antony Blinken
Diplomat Making Alliance Management His Life Work
Dana Nessel
Michigan Attorney General and Civil Rights at the Center of the Job
David Geffen
Mogul Behind Labels, Studios, and Cultural Institutions
Greg Joseph
Kicker and Carrying Jewish Day School Into the NFL
Harvey Fierstein
Playwright and Gay Life Center Stage
Jacky Rosen
Synagogue President Making Bipartisanship Her Brand
Jared Moskowitz
The Florida Democrat Shaped by Crisis Politics
Julian Zelizer
Historian and American Politics Legible Again
Kenneth Feinberg
The Lawyer Who Tried to Make Catastrophe Compensation Fair
Lawrence Bacow
The University President Who Made Steadiness a Governing Style
Moses
The Biblical Liberator, Lawgiver, and the Problem of History
Renee Richards
Tennis Pioneer Who Forced the Sport to Face Gender in Public
Sam Altman
Operator, AI, and a Public Power Center
Tamar Frankel
Scholar and Trust at the Center of Corporate Law
Ted Deutch
Congressman Who Carried Jewish Advocacy Into Institutional Life
Theodor Herzl
Journalist, Zionism, and a Political Program
Walter Isaacson
Biographer, Genius, and Public Argument
Andrew Levy
The Realtor Who Treated School Lunch Debt as an Emergency
Canadian Jewish Climate Activism
How a Communal Issue Grew
How Jewish Resettlement Networks Helped Ukrainians and Afghans...
Explains the machinery behind that help, how Jewish refugee institutions adapted to two...
Leonard and Ronald Lauder
Family Wealth Turned Into Public Institutions
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
Why Holocaust Rescuers Still Need Jewish Support
How COVID Changed Jewish Prayer, and
COVID moved Jewish prayer online quickly, and hybrid synagogue life remains because...
How Synagogues Can Become Accessible to Deaf and Disabled Jews
Synagogue accessibility is often discussed as if it were a facilities problem. Sometimes...
How Women Became Central to Talmud Study
In one generation, women moved from the edges of advanced Talmud learning to the center...
Rabbi Rachel Isaacs
American Jewish institutions often assume serious Jewish life happens in a few big...
What Is a Bimah? The Platform From Which the Torah Is Read
A bimah is one of the most important pieces of synagogue architecture.
What Is a Cantor? The Prayer Leader Whose Work Joins Music,...
A cantor leads synagogue prayer through voice, melody, and liturgical knowledge.
What Is a Gabbai? Synagogue Role Explained
In many synagogues the gabbai is the person who quietly makes the service work.
What Is a Ner Tamid? The Eternal Light That Burns Near the...
The ner tamid is easy to miss if you do not know what you are looking at.
What Is a Parashah? Weekly Torah Portion Meaning
Jews often talk about "this week's parashah" as if the phrase explains itself. The...
What Is a Sefer Torah? The Handwritten Scroll at the Center of...
A Sefer Torah is more than a copy of the Torah.
What Is a Sidra? The Weekly Torah Portion in the Synagogue Reading...
If parashah is the smaller section, sidra is the weekly portion in the public reading...
What Is a Synagogue? Prayer, Study, Community, and
A synagogue is often described as the Jewish equivalent of a church.
What Is a Yeshiva? Jewish Text Study, Talmudic Learning, and the...
A yeshiva is often described as a Jewish school, but that is too broad to capture what...
What Is an Aliyah? The Honor of Being Called Up to the Torah
Aliyah is a word with more than one Jewish meaning.
What Is the Ark in a Synagogue? Torah Cabinet Explained
The synagogue ark, or aron kodesh, is where [Torah...