Tour and Events

Online Events

Thursday, May 21, 2020, 6:00 pm EDT
In conversation with Michael Berenbaum
The Plot Against America: Antisemitism Run Amok
National Museum of American Jewish History
Philadelphia, PA

Tuesday, May 26, 2020, 4:15 pm EDT
From Emma Lazarus to Natalie Portman: America’s Jewish Women, Zionism, and the State of Israel
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Israel

Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 4:00 pm EDT
America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School Beyond the Classroom
Rockville, MD

June 25, 2020, 8:00 pm EDT
In conversation with Prof. Jonathan Judaken and Marcie Stagner (Memphis JCC)
America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
Rhodes College/Memphis Jewish Community Center/Memphis Jewish Historical Society

Wednesday, July 8, 2020, 2:00 pm EDT
America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
Waltham, MA

 

Michigan

Tuesday, November 10, 2020
“It Can Happen Here”: Antisemitism, Gender, and the American Past
David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Florida

Wednesday, February 3, 2021
“Down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room”: Politics and America’s Jewish Women
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Book Clubs

Jewish Women’s Archive Book Club
Women of Conservative Judaism: Women’s League Reads  (May 2019 book of the month)

Past Events

  • Washington, DC Metropolitan/Maryland: Politics and Prose Bookstore, with Rabbi Shira Stutman; Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies (at JCC of Northern Virginia and Kol Shalom, Rockville); Congregation B’nai Tzedek (Potomac, MD); Cantors Assembly (Potomac, MD); American University High Impact Research Conference; Women of Reform Judaism Social Justice Conference; National Archives; National Museum of American Jewish Military History; Jewish Study Center; B’nai Israel Congregation (Rockville, MD); Bet Aviv Congregation (Columbia, MD); American University book talk and panel with Jewish Studies students; Baltimore Jewish Literary Festival (at Jewish Museum of Maryland), Tifereth Israel Congregation (DC); Live and Learn (Bethesda, MD); Temple Sinai Women of Reform Judaism Author Roundtable
  • New Jersey: Congregation B’nai Jeshurun (Short Hills) The Book House (Millburn); Congregation Gesher Shalom/Jewish Community Center of Fort Lee
  • New York: American Jewish Historical Society, with Jane Eisner; 92nd Street Y, with Rona Sheramy; New York Public Library, with Gal Beckerman; Yeshivat Maharat, with Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Museum of Jewish Heritage, Columbia University; Streiker Center, Temple Emanu-El, panel “Create Meaning or Fade Away”
  • Philadelphia: National Museum of American Jewish History
  • Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Book Festival; University of Virginia Jewish Studies Faculty & Graduate Students Workshop
  • Massachusetts: Boston: Porter Square Books; Amherst: Yiddish Book Center
  • Charleston, SC: College of Charleston, Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program;
    Women’s League for Conservative Judaism – Southern Region
  • Ohio: Central Conference of American Rabbis (Cincinnati); Jewish Community Center, Columbus; Cleveland Jewish Book Festival
  • Seattle, WA; Third Place Books–Ravenna
  • Eugene, OR: University of Oregon – Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies
  • California: Green Apple Books on the Park (San Francisco); Stanford University; American Jewish University; University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at Santa Barbara; Temple Beth Am (Los Angeles); Merage Jewish Community Center (Orange County)
  • Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
  • Michigan: Eastern Michigan University
  • Arizona: Limmud Arizona (Tempe), Women’s Leadership Institute Learning and Leading  Jewishly (Scottsdale)
  • Texas: Margot Rosenberg Dallas Jewish Bookfest
  • Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Schusterman Center for Judaic Studies
  • Florida: Alper Jewish Community Center (Miami)
  • Zoom: Peninsula Jewish Historical Society (VA); “Jewish Women and Health Crises in History,” American Jewish Archives; “Facing the Spanish Flu and the Great Depression,” National Museum of American Jewish History; American Jewish University B’yachad Together