The Myer & Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History

Simhat Torah Rally for Soviet Jewry. October 17, 1970. With over 5,000 participants, this was the largest of more than 50 rallies held throughout the United States on that same day. Courtesy of the Urban Archives, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA.

Theme for 2012-2013

What is Your Food Worth? Jews and Food Choices

"What Is Your Food Worth?" Temple University' s Feinstein Center in partnership with the Gershman Y, the National Museum of American Jewish History, and Congregation Rodeph Shalom.

Over the course of two years, these institutions will pose and answer the question in multiple ways. The public will be invited to engage in the discussion through a series of programs bringing together historians, scholars of religion, kosher bakers, organic farmers, labor activitsts, chefs, and foodies to investigate how American Jewish life and thought is articulated, contested, marketed, lived and digested.

What is your Food Worth Program

For a complete calendar and ongoing conversations about Jewish foodways, please visit www.whatisyourfoodworth.com.

Jews and Leftist Politics in Philadelphia Online Guide - information about our newest oral history collection housed in the Special Records Collection in Temple University's Paley library.