GEN: Cultural Calendar

Judaism in America
Provides an overview of Jewish life, cultural and experience throughout American history. From the Pluralism Project at Harvard U. 

10 key findings about Jewish Americans (Pew Research)
2021 survey covering a wide range of culturally Jewish activities as well as traditional religious practices.

• American Jews  (Bias Busters: Cultural competence guides)
  • Written by MSU journalism students & faculty, selection from of items from the book “100 Questions and Answers About American Jews.”
• National Museum of American Jewish History
  • Presents educational programs and experiences centering the Jewish experience in the United States.
• Jewniverse (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
  • "Jewniverse features extraordinary, inspirational, forgotten, and just-plain-strange dispatches from Jewish culture, tradition, and history. Yiddish workout videos? Dr. Seuss’s political cartoons? Novels about Jewish mail-order brides in the American Old West? We’ve got it covered."
• Keshet
  • Focusing on the Jewish LGBTQ+ community, provides advocacy opportunities, events, educational guides.

Adventures in Jewish Studies
"Fostering greater understanding of Jewish Studies scholarship among the wider public...designed take listeners on exciting journeys while exploring a wide range of topics, from the contemporary to the ancient, in ways that are informative, engaging, and fun."

Ask Your Jewish Mother
"Sometimes you just need your Jewish mom. We'll work on health, fitness, relationships, self-hypnosis and guided imagery. Whatever YOU need - ask your Jewish mother."

Can We Talk?
"stories and conversations about Jewish women and the issues that shape our public and private lives."

Jew-ish
"JEW-ISH is a series of one to one interviews with Jews from a range of different cultures and backgrounds, aiming to show the nuance that exists within the Jewish world."

Jewish Identity Crisis
"If you ask Isaac or Julia where they’re from, make sure you have have a few hours... As ‘mixed’ Jews, they live the experience of multi-cultural, diasporic Judaism, extending as far as Jewish History does—from the Middle East, to Iberia, to Eastern Europe, to the United States, to Latin America. But Julia and Isaac’s unique perspectives go farther than their ethnicity. As young and loud Jewish activists in a changing world, these two college students aim to find their place in society."

Theatre Schmooze
"monthly podcast from Alliance for Jewish Theatre where we chat with Jewish theatre makers from around the world about their art, Judaism, and vision for theater’s future"

Jewish American Heritage Collection at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Provides nearly 400 public television and radio programs from 1945 to 2017 that focus on social, cultural, and religious aspects of Jewish life in America.

Jewish American Heritage Month: Library of Congress
Paying tribute to the generations of Jewish Americans who have helped form the fabric of American history, culture and society.

Jewish Women's Archive
Dedicated to collecting and promoting the extraordinary stories of Jewish women. 

Jewcy
online magazine of Jewish pop culture and offbeat news, particulalry focusing on Jewish identity by young US Jews.

Jewish Advocate
A Boston-based Jewish newspaper with wide distribution.

Lilith
An independent Jewish women’s quarterly exploring the relationships between Jewish identity and feminism.

Moment: The Magazine of Jewish Culture and Opinion
An independent bi-monthly journa covering Jewish politics, religion and culture.

A bi-monthly magazine providing space for progressive Jewish voices to address critical issues.

BookRiot 20 Essential Jewish-American Novels (and Story Collections) of the Past 20 Years
To read Jewish-American novels is to examine a multitude of other topics: religion, immigration, family, responsibility, love, culture, mysticism, tradition, and place.