Go & Learn features versatile lesson plans for three different audiences—youth, families, and adults—that include background information, primary source documents, discussion questions, and program extensions. Challenge and inspire students to explore identity and action through the stories and experiences of American Jewish women.

Twenty-four lesson plans tell the story of Jewish involvement in the Civil Rights and Labor Movements. Using primary sources and a variety of engaging activities, Living the Legacy encourages learners to grapple with questions about identity and social justice through a Jewish lens.

Explore identity and activism through 16 lesson plans highlighting the stories of Jewish involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Investigate the motivations and experiences of American Jewish activists, experiment with models for civil disobedience and community organizing, and unpack the complex relationship between Jews, African Americans, and social justice activism.

Browse LTL lesson plans by keyword to quickly find resources on your subject of interest.

The 22 introductory essays in Living the Legacy provide important historical context for the questions, ideas, and sources explored in each lesson. They are also an excellent resource for getting a quick overview of Jewish involvement in both the Civil Rights and Labor Movements.

Participate in an online learning program, attend a workshop, or join our growing network of educators to discover new stories about American Jewish life. In Professional Development, you can:

• Explore past online learning programs on a variety of topics
• See what professional development opportunities are coming up
• Invite JWA to present a workshop in your community

Andrea Kalinowski brings together quotes from diaries and news stories, photographs, and quilt patterns to tell unique stories from these pioneer women's lives. In Western Pioneers, you will find excerpts from these diaries and memoirs, pictures of the women Kalinowski incorporated into her artwork, and additional pointers to online resources about Jewish women as pioneers of the American West.

Discover the stories of whole communities of Jewish women through oral history interviews, videos, and images of objects central to their lives, from the women who took leadership roles during Hurricane Katrina to cookbook author Joan Nathan explaining how she chooses recipes to Holocaust survivor Magda Schaloum's collage made from materials she scavenged in Dachau.

Nine Washington, DC women—including award-winning cookbook author Joan Nathan and NPR host and correspondent Susan Stamberg—share stories of their childhood homes, their personal struggles, and their transformative careers in this compelling series of oral history interviews

This growing online collection contains reminiscences of a variety of recently deceased American Jewish women who made a difference in their community and beyond.

Weaving Women’s Words: Seattle Stories showcases thirty women, born in the early 20th century, who made their homes in the Seattle Jewish community.

From the ordinary to the grand, thirty Baltimore women share their life stories as teachers, businesswomen, philanthropists and communal leaders, as well as mothers, wives, and friends. Together they produce a rich and authentic portrait of a pivotal generation of American Jewish women and their impact on their families, their communities, and the larger society.

Discover aspects common to the different Baltimore women’s life experiences and shared qualities that characterize their long and fulfilling lives.

Pictures and stories of significant objects in the lives of the Seattle women, from a piece of artwork created in Auschwitz to the blades used to make traditional gefilte fish.

Born in places as far-flung as Greece and Alaska, our narrators witnessed the upheaval of the Great Depression, World War II, the civil rights movement, and the feminist revolution. Their stories of their lives as homemakers and educators, activists and musicians reflect the changing expectations, opportunities, and challenges this remarkable generation of Jewish women faced.

Born early in the twentieth century, our narrators lived through decades of political, social and economic upheaval, as well as dramatic changes in expectations for women and Jews. Doctors and lawyers, homemakers and saleswomen, our narrators reflect the astonishing diversity that characterized the lives of this pivotal generation of Jewish women.