Documenting American
Jewish Communities

His Father’s Bookstore

Interview with Laurence Roth, author of a beautiful new book about life in a Jewish bookstore in Los Angeles

Understanding America’s Sephardic & Mizrahi Jews

Q&A with Sarah Levin, Executive Director of JIMENA

Rigorously Researching Jews

Q&A with Brandeis’ Len Saxe

The Past Speaks

Interview with Rachel Cockerell, the author of an unconventional and gripping new book on Jewish family, migration, and assimilation

Looking Forward

Q&A with Lisa Kay Solomon, author, strategic foresight designer, and Designer in Residence and Lecturer at Stanford d.school

Complicating Jewish Heritage

Q&A with Historian Hasia Diner

The Longview of American Jewish Life

Q&A With Steven Windmueller, Professor Emeritus of Communal Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles

Church, State, Jews

Interview with Rachel Laser, CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State

The Sunrise & Sunset of Jewish Organizations

Q&A with Aliza Mazor of UpStart

Jewish Los Angeles Burns

Tragedy in a global Jewish city

Jewish Moguls at the Museum

And interview with New Yorker writer Michael Schulman

Recent Essays

His Father’s Bookstore

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September 2025 Research Digest

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Understanding America’s Sephardic & Mizrahi Jews

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August 2025 Research Digest

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Rigorously Researching Jews

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Summer Research Roundup

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