Capital Jewish Museum
How Washington Put Jewish History in the Civic Center
Field archive
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
Shows a longer argument about what an Orthodox institution thinks it is recognizing when...
NALA and the Israeli NGO Model of Global Health
NALA matters not because it once responded to a pandemic abroad, but because it built a...
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
Jews in Sports
Why the Stereotype Never Matched the Record
Myanmar's Jews
How a Once-Visible Community Survived in One Synagogue
Paul Azaroff
Teacher Keeping Yiddish Warm
Shalhevet Girls Basketball
How an Orthodox School Made State History
The Broad
The Broad and the Bet That a Free Museum Could Anchor Downtown LA looks at the people,...
The Yiddish Book Center
How a Book Rescue Became a Cultural Renaissance
Why the Weitzman Museum Matters for American Jewish History
The Weitzman's reopening was never the main story why the United States needs a museum...
Jeremy England
Physicist, the Origins of Life, and Thermodynamics Argument
Adam Schiff
Prosecutor Behind a Career Around the Defense of Institutions
Aly Raisman
Olympic Captain, Survival, and Public Pressure
Dana Nessel
Michigan Attorney General and Civil Rights at the Center of the Job
David Geffen
Mogul Behind Labels, Studios, and Cultural Institutions
Eric Weinstein
Public Intellectual, Dissent, and Genre
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
Florida Democrat and Learning to Fight Through Crisis
Julian Zelizer
Historian and American Politics Legible Again
Lawrence Bacow
University President, Steadiness, and 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
Andrew Levy
Realtor Treating School Lunch Debt as an Emergency
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
Brothers, Family Wealth, and 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 space.
What Is a Gabbai? The Synagogue Officer
In many synagogues the gabbai is the person who quietly makes the service work.
What Is a Haftarah? The Prophetic Reading That Follows the Torah...
The Haftarah is the reading that follows the Torah, but it is not a decorative add-on.
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? The Section of the Torah Read Publicly in...
Jews often talk about "this week's parashah" as if everyone knows what that means.
What Is a Sefer Torah? The Handwritten Scroll at the Center of...
A Sefer Torah is not just 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 larger weekly portion.
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? The Cabinet That Holds the Torah...
In synagogue architecture, the ark is not just furniture.