American Jewish Historical Society

The American Jewish Historical Society is in the Center for Jewish History in New York City. It is a collection of American Jewish holdings from the 16th century to the present. Paul B. Warhit is president. Contact Nicole Straus.

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Wikipedia page on same-sex marriage

Wikipedia keeps its page on same-sex marriage updated with background, links, state-by-state information and charts. Wikipedia also has a page about Christian churches around the world that have approved same-sex marriages. As with any open-source website, information on Wikipedia should be confirmed before it’s used.

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Joey Weisenberg

Joey Weisenberg is the creative director of the Hadar Center for Communal Jewish Music. He is a mandolin player who is bringing ancient Jewish nigunim, or wordless rabbinic hymns, back into synagogue music. He was named to Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36: The Next Wave of Jewish Innovators” (scroll down).

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Daniel Sieradski

Daniel Sieradski is the founder of Jewschool, a blog that covers everything from politics to religion to art from a Jewish perspective. It has 50,000 readers and contributors from 80 countries. He was named to Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36: The Next Wave of Jewish Innovators.”

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Naomi Levy

Rabbi Naomi Levy is the founder of Nashuva, a Jewish worship community in Los Angeles. Levy is widely credited with finding innovative and creative ways of engaging unaffiliated and disaffected Jews with their faith.

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Isaac Jerusalmi

Isaac Jerusalmi is a professor emeritus of Bible and Semitic languages at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. He wrote the introduction to Stanford University’s digitized Ladino library.

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