Programs

Community Projects Overview

Since 1843, B'nai B'rith has delivered community programs and services that provide help and hope to those in need.

Project H.O.P.E.
Help Our People Everywhere (H.O.P.E.) is a community action project whose major goal is the collection and distribution of food packages to poor and elderly Jews during Passover.

Unto Every Person - Holocaust Remembrance Program
Since 1989 on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, B'nai B'rith International has been the North American sponsor of "Unto Every Person, There Is a Name" ceremonies.

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Cultural and Educational Programming

B'nai B'rith Cares for Kids
A community service project that has brought tens of thousands of teddy bears and stuffed animals to children who are facing difficult health and family situations.

​Enlighten America 
B’nai B’rith’s response to a society in which intolerance, coarseness and even violence are becoming more and more prevalent.

Smarter Kids - Safer Kids
B'nai B'rith has published Smarter Kids - Safer Kids to guide parents through educating children about potential dangers.

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Leadership Development

IMPACT: Emerging Leaders Fellowship
B’nai B’rith launched the IMPACT: Emerging Leaders Fellowship in July, 2021, in partnership with the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS). Candidates selected for this program will learn from and interact with guest speakers and mentors in immersive virtual sessions to develop advocacy, diplomacy and civic engagement skills.

Women's Leadership Network
​The Women’s Leadership Network is a new B’nai B’rith initiative intended to foster an intergenerational group of female leaders focused on B’nai B’rith’s advocacy efforts. For further information, please contact Rebecca Rose, associate director of development & special projects, at rrose@bnaibrith.org.

Senior Programming

Alzheimer's Disease
B'nai B'rith International, through its Center for Senior Services, is actively involved in the many challenges that face seniors and their families.

B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum and B'nai B'rith Archives

The B’nai B’rith Archives, now housed at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Cincinnati’s Hebrew Union College (HUC), includes thousands of documents and artifacts dating from the mid-19th century to the 21st century, which provide a rich source of information on our organization’s accomplishments, as well as on the role played by lodges and leaders within the context of Jewish history, in America and around the world.

The B’nai B’rith Holocaust and Related Materials Collection, organized and funded by a generous grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. and the Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education, includes correspondence, books and periodicals, directories, and maps pertaining to B’nai B’rith in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States in the years before and after the Holocaust.

Remembered for the Judaica exhibitions mounted at B’nai B’rith’s former Washington, D.C. headquarters from the mid-1950s through the year 2001, the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum transferred its extensive acquisitions, consisting of paintings, sculptures and liturgical objects in 2015 to the Skirball Museum, also located on HUC’s campus, where these artworks are now part of its permanent collection.
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Contacts:
For more information about the National Jewish Museum and/or the B'nai B'rith Archives, please call 202-857-6647 or email museum@bnaibrith.org. 

B’nai B’rith’s Center for Jewish Identity and Culture includes the B’nai B’rith Collection of artworks and artifacts at the Skirball Museum and the B’nai B’rith Archives at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, which are located on the campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.
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Reach the Skirball Museum in Cincinnati: csm.huc.edu/

Research inquiries for the B’nai B’rith Archives at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at HUC: americanjewisharchives.org or call 513-487-3000
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Holocaust Art Resource List
As part of the commitment of the National Jewish Museum to the recovery of Holocaust-era cultural assets, we are pleased to include a Holocaust Art Resource List as well as a selection of works from the Museum's collection.