Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

The Bat Mitzvah Project:

The Bat Mitzvah Project (BMP) aims to revolutionize the experience of becoming a bat mitzvah.  HBI, in collaborative partnership with Moving Traditions, is designing a program to make the bat mitzvah a more meaningful experience, while fostering self-confidence and a strong Jewish identity.

The HBI Annual Calendar Project: 

In 1999, HBI began producing a 12-month, Hebrew/English calendar featuring Jewish women around the world. Our overarching goal is to bring a fresh look at Jewish women’s experiences, achievements, and work into the daily lives of calendar users. To date, calendar themes have focused on actvist artists, athletes, scientists, leaders, rabbis, writers, and most recently, craft artisans.

Esther’s Legacy: Celebrating Purim Around the World

Esther’s Legacy is a collection of 140 men’s and women’s personal thoughts, observations, memories, and descriptions on the holiday of Purim. Written by people from nearly 100 Jewish communities, the collection strives to represent the diversity of worldwide Jewry while exploring the commonalities of celebrating Jewish life—and Purim in particular.

Please contact the HBI for additional information about the project and the publication that led to its culmination.

Religion & Law Project:

The Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law was initiated by a grant from The Sylvia Neil and Dan Fischel Philanthropic Fund. The project was launched in February 2007 as part of the celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.

Families & Holocaust Project:

Launched in February 2009, the mission of the HBI Project on Families, Children and the Holocaust is to introduce a new dimension to Holocaust studies - interdisciplinary research on the histories and representations of East European Jewish families and children from 1933 to the present. In particular the project aims to explore the experience of childhood, motherhood and fatherhood in specific geographical locations and in a transnational context. The Project also encourages methodological research and artistic expressions pertaining to adult and child survivors' accounts of their prewar, wartime and postwar lives.

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Internship Program