The Berman Jewish Policy Archive (BJPA), housed at th
Graduate School of Education at Stanford University
is a centralized

electronic database A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publicatio ...

of Jewish communal

policy Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an orga ...

research. Its collection contains more than 20,000 documents, with holdings spanning from 1900 until today. It also is connected to th
Jewish Survey Question Bank
a freely available repository of survey tools and questionnaires. The BJPA partners with the

North American Jewish Data Bank The Berman Jewish DataBank, founded as the North American Jewish Data Bank, is the central online source for social scientific studies of North American Jewry and world Jewish populations and communities. The DataBank's primary functions are to ...

; together they source the largest publicly available collection of Jewish policy research. The BJPA was established through the Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation, the

Charles H. Revson Foundation The Charles H. Revson Foundation was founded in 1956 by Charles H. Revson, the founding President of Revlon Cosmetics as a vehicle for his charitable giving. He willed half of his estate to the Foundation upon his death. Julie Sandorf has been t ...

, and continued with support from th
Jim Joseph Foundation
The director and founder is

Steven M. Cohen Steven M. Cohen (born April 3, 1950) is an American sociologist whose work focuses on the American Jewish Community. He served as a Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Direct ...

. The associate director i
Ari Y. Kelman

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