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Mandell Berman Institute 
North American Jewish Data Bank
                               University of Connecticut 
Data Bank Brief

May 2013

Bill Berman Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) was founded in 1780 by such American luminaries as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, among others. Now, the AAAS includes among its distinguished membership, Bill Berman, the founding patron of the North American Jewish Data Bank. At a recent meeting, Bill was invited to join this august body and the staff members of the Berman Institute - North American Jewish Data Bank offer their sincere congratulations to him on this most deserving honor. 

 

Data Bank Prepares to Move from UConn to New York at Jewish Federations of North America

Pursuant to the endowment created by patron founder, Bill Berman, last summer, the Data Bank will be administered by The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), headquartered in New York City, effective July 1, 2013.

 

Dr. Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, Senior Director of Research and Analysis at JFNA, will assume the additional position of the Director of what will be known as the Berman Jewish DataBank. Dr. Arnold Dashefsky will become Director Emeritus and Senior Academic Consultant and Dr. Ron Miller will remain as Associate Director. The URL will remain the same: www.jewishdatabank.org. The new structure will allow simultaneous searching of the content of the Berman Jewish DataBank and the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. 

Feedback from Data Bank Co-sponsored Session at the Meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture

A recent session of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture (ASREC) included a co-sponsored session by the Data Bank with the Association for the Social Scientific of Jewry (ASSJ), chaired by the President of ASREC, the distinguished economist, Professor Laurence R. Iannacone. Afterwards, he wrote to us, and permitted us to share his comments with our Founder, our Advisory Board, our staff and our users.

 

He wrote: "As I said at the start of the session, scholars, community leaders, and financial backers of the North American Jewish Data Bank can scarcely appreciate how valuable their work has been for non-Jewish scholars and communities. . . . In short, I wish you and your colleagues all the best -- and for OUR sake as much as YOURS.  Your work is of course extremely important in its own right, but the data you collect is so terrifically helpful for the rest of us."

 
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Mandell L. Berman Institute North American Jewish Data Bank
Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut
405 Babbidge Rd, Unit 1205, Storrs, CT 06269-1205
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