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  • J Street: The Political Home for Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace Americans 
    J Street (J Street, 2017)
    The official Web Site of J Street, "the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people." The date provided is merely the year in which ...
  • Jewish Book Council 
    Jewish Book Council (Jewish Book Council, 2019)
    "Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, found­ed in 1944, is the longest-run­ning orga­ni­za­tion devot­ed exclu­sive­ly to the sup­port and cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture. For over sev­en­ty years, we have used lit­er­a­ture to ...
  • Jewish Currents 
    Jewish Currents (Jewish Currents, 1946)
    "Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left." Click on the link above to access the magazine.
  • Jewish Federation of Cleveland 
    Jewish Federation of Cleveland (Jewish Federation of Cleveland, 2017)
    The Web site of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. Click the link above to access.
  • Jewish Federations of Canada - UIA 
    Jewish Federations of Canada - UIA (2020)
    Founded in 1967, the Jewish Federations of Canada - UIA (United Israel Appeal) partners with Jewish organizations across Canada to "strengthen Jewish life and raise funds for programs and services in Canada, Israel and ...
  • The Jewish Federations of North America 
    The Jewish Federations of North America (The Jewish Federations of North America, 2018)
    "The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) represents 148 Jewish Federations and over 300 Network communities, which raise and distribute more than $2 billion annually and through planned giving and endowment programs ...
  • Jewish Federations of North America 
    Jewish Federations of North America (2020)
    Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) is a network of philanthropic Jewish Federations which supports the social welfare, educational and social services needs of the Jewish community. They also respond to the needs ...
  • Jewish Humor in America: From the Borscht Belt to Broadway and beyond 
    Novak, William (My Jeiwish Learning, 2020)
    This article by William Novak in My Jewish Learning is an excerpt from his books "The Big Book of Jewish Humor," published by HarperCollins. He argues that the uniqueness of American Jewish humor has not been recognized. ...
  • Jewish Museum 
    Jewish Museum (Jewish Museum, 2017)
    The Web site of the Jewish Museum, "one of the world’s preeminent institutions devoted to exploring art and Jewish culture, from ancient to contemporary, was founded in 1904 in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, ...
  • Jewish People's School 
    Pinsky, Marian (Museum of Jewish Montreal, 2015)
    The Jewish People's School emerged out of a coalition of Yiddish and Labour Zionits, known as National Radical School, which, in 1918, was renamed the Peretz School. The Jewish Peoples School developed out of debates over ...
  • Jewish Public Library 
    Jewish Public Library (2017)
    Located in Montreal, Quebec, the Jewish Public Library contains North America's largest circulating Judaica collection.Their goal is to provide a full range of recreational, research, educational and cultural services to ...
  • The Jewish Publication Society 
    The Jewish Publication Society (The Jewish Publication Society, 2015)
    "Since 1888 the mission of JPS has been to enhance Jewish literacy and self-understanding with the JPS TANAKH, the most widely read English translation of the Hebrew Bible, Bible commentaries, and hundreds of classic books ...
  • The Jewish Religion in North America: Canadian and American Comparisons 
    Schoenfeld, Stuart (Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1978)
    "The question of similarities and differences between the Jewish community of Canada and that of the United States is examined with respect to religious organizations, attitudes and practices." Click on the link above to ...
  • Jewish Women's Archive 
    Jewish Women's Archive (Jewish Women's Archive, 2018)
    "The Jewish Women’s Archive is a national organization dedicated to collecting and promoting the extraordinary stories of Jewish women. JWA explores the past as a framework for understanding the issues important to women ...
  • Jewish-American Playwrights Are Grappling With Identity Head On 
    Siegel, Ed (The ARTery - WBUR Radio, 2020-01-02)
    The author discusses a shift in the way earlier Jewish playwrights treated their Judaism with the way contemporary Jewish playwrights do. He claims that the earlier playwrights were "more interested in joining the American ...
  • Judaism, Torah and Jewish Info - Chabad Lubavitch 
    Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center (Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, 2018)
    The Web site of Chabad.org. Click on the link above to access.
  • Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry 
    Columbia University Libraries (2016)
    An archive of spoken Yiddish containing 5,755 hours of taped interviews with Yiddish speakers collected between 1959 and 1972, and accompanying linguistic field notes.The speakers were from over 600 locations, with the ...
  • Lilith 
    Lilith (Lilith Magazine, 1976)
    "Independent, Jewish & frankly feminist since 1976, Lilith magazine charts Jewish women’s lives with exuberance, rigor, affection, subversion and style. Lilith’s mission is to be the feminist change-agent in and for the ...
  • The Lower East Side 
    Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 2017)
    A brief discussion of the Lower East Side created by the Library of Congress as a resource for teachers. Note that the year 2017 in the item record reflects the year that the website was accessed. No date was provided in ...
  • Lower East Side Then and Now 
    Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy (Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy, 2017)
    Photographs of Lower East Side locations from the early twentieth century followed by contemporary photographs of the same locations. Click on the link below to access the photographs.

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