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===Steinhardt Social Research Institute===
[[File:Brandeis-womens-studies-research-center.jpg|thumb|right|Women's Studies Research Center]]

The Steinhardt Social Research Institute<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brandeis.edu/ssri/ |title=Steinhardt Social Research Institute |publisher=brandeis.edu |date=2013-09-30 |access-date=2014-04-16 |archive-date=2014-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410132712/http://www.brandeis.edu/ssri/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was created in 2005 from a gift from [[Michael Steinhardt]] as a forum to collect, analyze, and disseminate data about the Jewish community and about religion and ethnicity in the United States. The first mission of SSRI was to interpret the inherent problems with the [[National Jewish Population Survey]] of 2000 (NJPS). SSRI has done a Jewish Population Survey of the Greater Boston area, the results of which were released on November 9, 2006.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/11/10/jewish_population_in_region_rises/ | work=The Boston Globe | title=Jewish population in region rises | date=2006-11-10 | first=Michael | last=Paulson | access-date=2020-02-20 | archive-date=2016-03-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082836/http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/11/10/jewish_population_in_region_rises/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

The Institute collects and organizes existing socio-demographic data from private, communal, and government sources and will conduct local and national studies of the character of American Jewry and Jewish organizations. The work of the institute is done by a multidisciplinary staff of faculty and scholars, working with undergraduate and graduate students, and augmented by visiting scholars and consultants. The institute works in close collaboration with the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies.