Jewish Women's Archive

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Direct beneficiaries per year: 900,000 unique visitors to website/year.

Board Members and Affiliation: Joyce Antler - Brandeis University

Susan Asher Calechman - Wellesley College Friends of Art

Olivia Cohen-Cutler - Walt Disney Co./ABC Inc.

Barbara Dobkin - Dobkin Family Foundation

Sue Bricker Dorn

Gloria Feldt

Roz Garber - Garber Travel Co.

Penina Migdal Glazer - Hampshire College

Felicia Herman - Natan Foundation

Carol M. Joseph - Cassel, Cassel, and Joseph

Ann F. Lewis - NoLimits.org

Anne Meyer - Goulston & Storrs

Linda K. Morse

Beth Newburger - Epoch Communications

Michele Rosen - Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, United Jewish Appeal

Barbara Ellison Rosenblit - Weber School

Susan Levin Schlechter - NYU Steinhardt School of Education

Marian Scheuer Sofaer - Federal Arbitration, Inc.

Prudence L. Steiner - Harvard Hillel

Nancy Schwartz Sternoff -Dobkin Family Foundation

Nicki Newman Tanner

Jeane Ungerleider - Boston IVF

Carol B. Wise

Diane Wohl

Mission:

The mission of the Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA) is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish women. A national non-profit organization founded in 1995, the Jewish Women’s Archive is devoted to making known the stories, struggles, and achievements of Jewish women in North America in order to enrich the way we understand the past and to ensure a more inclusive future. One of the first Jewish organizations to recognize and invest in the potential of the Internet, JWA has amassed the most extensive collection of material anywhere on American Jewish women, which be accessed for free by anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world. Its award-winning website, www.jwa.org, gets over 900,000 unique visitors a year and is a destination for people seeking knowledge, a sense of connection and community, and a way to affirm and enhance the legacy of American Jewish women.

JWA.org offers an online Encyclopedia of Jewish women, a lively blog, lesson plans and other educational materials that can be downloaded for free, online exhibits on topics as diverse as Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution and Katrina’s Jewish Voices, several book and film guides, a growing collection of reminiscences of recently deceased Jewish women, a poster series, and numerous other resources for anyone interested in the experiences of American Jewish women, both celebrated and unheralded.

In addition to its website, the Jewish Women’s Archive runs a biannual summer Institute for Educators, is the producer of Making Trouble, an acclaimed film about Jewish women comedians that has been screened at over160 film festivals and other venues and is now available on DVD, and sponsors public programs in partnership with other non profit organizations.

Results:

Created largest single collection of information on American Jewish women.

Produced “Making Trouble,” a film about six Jewish women comedians that has been screened at more than 160 film festivals and other venues around the world.

Assembled the largest single repository of data related to the Jewish experience of Hurricane Katrina.

Created 14 “Go & Learn” curriculum modules, which have been downloaded over 26,000 times; hosted biannual Institute for Educators.

Award-winning website (jwa.org) reaches over 60,000 unique Web visitors each month.

Named one of the 50 most innovative Jewish organizations by Slingshot.

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noragold

10/31/09

Jewish Women's Archive is an extraordinary organization that does unique work and fills a much-needed role. No other organization is compiling now what will in future be the history of Jewish women, and nowhere else is there this rich treasure trove of information about Jewish women up till now - to... more »

MamouchiE

10/30/09

What's remarkable about JWA: first, the only organization I've every dealt with in which everyone (board and staff) has put aside personal matters and concentrates on the JWA tasks at hand. Second--this lack of self-importance has made JWA flexible, open and remarkably effective. Its web-site and... more »

LBMahana

10/22/09

JWA afforded me an opportunity to express my thoughts and feelings after my Mother passed away, the year after Katrina. I read and reread my thoughts over and over. It is very comforting. Since that time, I follow the site and have found, it to be an organization that expresses and extols the ... more »

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