North Carolinians came together on November 8, 1997, to honor one the state’s civic leaders and pathbreaking women.

Rabbi Jill Hammer (featured on jwa.org) and Holly Shere founded the Kohenet Institute on November 23, 2005, based on a shared vision of Je

In the summer of 2010, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston received an unexpected bequest to endow a Curatorship for Judaica and increase its small but significant collection of Jewish art objects.

Ruth Wisse grew up speaking Yiddish with her family and would make a career of preserving the language’s legacy and literature.

Loren Galler Rabinowitz a gifted pianist, Bronze-medal winning ice skater, and poet who graduated from Harvard in 2010 with plans to pursue a career in medicine, won the Miss Massachusetts title in 2

Russian piano virtuoso Rosina Bessie Lhevinne’s (1880-1976) career traversed oceans and eras.

In the fall of 2009, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco launched the project “As It Is Written,” which allowed visitors to watch the pai

The first female President of this 104-year-old Orthodox congregation, Jackie Gothard had presided over the burial of seven Torah scrolls damaged beyond repair when the synagogue was flooded.