Curricula and educational resources JWA's most recent curriculum, Living the Legacy, focuses on the role of Jewish women in the
Civil Rights Movement and
labor movement, seeking to highlight their often-neglected but central role. Additional educational resources include 18 "Go & Learn" lesson plans, book and film guides, primary source materials and mother-daughter workshop materials. Previous curricula include Making Our Wilderness Bloom.
Online encyclopedia The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women edited by Jennifer Sartori, formerly
Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia edited by
Paula Hyman and
Dalia Ofer, is accessible for free via JWA's website. The encyclopedia features approximately 2,000 articles on the lives and achievements of Jewish women. Articles are also disseminated via
Twitter.
Film In 2007 JWA produced
Making Trouble, a documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism and gender. The film profiles
Molly Picon,
Fanny Brice,
Sophie Tucker,
Joan Rivers,
Gilda Radner, and
Wendy Wasserstein as well as contemporary comedians
Judy Gold and
Jackie Hoffman. The film has been screened at over 70
film festivals and other venues.
Podcast The Jewish Women's Archive produced a podcast called
Can We Talk? hosted by Nahanni Rous. Rous is also joined by Judith Rosenbaum and Ibby Caputo. The show released its first episode on January 26, 2016, and continued to release episodes on a monthly basis. Each episode is only about twenty minutes in length. The show interviews Jewish women about news, politics, and culture. In one episode the hosts interview
Anita Diamant about her book
The Red Tent.
Online exhibits ''Katrina's Jewish Voices'' is an online exhibit of photos, blog posts, podcasts, and email messages documenting the experience of the Jewish community during and after
Hurricane Katrina, produced in collaboration with the
Center for History and New Media at
George Mason University In partnership with the Institute for Southern Jewish History, JWA conducted 85 interviews with members of the
New Orleans,
Baton Rouge, and
Gulf Coast Jewish communities which are included in the exhibit. Other online exhibits include Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution, History Makers: Women of Valor and Women Who Dared: Contemporary Activists.
Other resources We Remember is an online collection of personal reflections and reminiscences about recently deceased notable American Jewish women.
This Week in History is a calendar of events that matches the current date with events in Jewish women's history. ==Leadership==