There was an ad in the Oak Leaves for a lab technician. I had just a little lab experience and I was attending school full time and had a wife and children. Dr. Herta Spencer interviewed me and said that I could work my hours around my schoo

My husband, Philip Kashin, is a physiologist and he met Dr.Spencer at a meeting (FASEB or Amer. Physiol.Soc.) in Albany, NY in thelate 1970s. Thereafter, we met at the yearly Gordon Conferences in NewHampshire where we brought 2 of our children along.

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I first knew Pam as a student. She was in one of the first Melton classes here is Seattle. She was a warm engaging participant. After a few years Pam left her work at the Jewish Family Service Kosher Food Bank and joined the Federation as the out reach

I am sad today, to read of Arlene's death. She was not a part of my day to day life at all, but I carried an image of her in my mind always. She visited my Los Angeles studio only one time, in the early 70s, and I can't recollect a more open and honest

The Shul, Brenham, Texas
1944

That was the year my chin could finally
reach the railing of the women's balcony.
The Yom Kippur of the new blue dress,
the one that matched th

...I have sung so many songs
testing note and style and theme,
rejecting this for that, so like
the mockingbird, not mocking
certainly, yet certain that
the next will be my one true voice,
my rationale for nesting in

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I am sorry that I never met Ruth Segel. I do know two of her five children, Jim and Arthur Segel. For me, she represents the generation of women which set about to change the expectations of the college educated woman in the United States. It's impo

If you were in any way involved in NY progressive Jewish activism in the past few decades, or were a student at the City University's Queens College, chances are you met Dr. Carolyn Goodman, who

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Shortly after the deat

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Born in 1911 and raised in New York, dancer and choreographer Sophie Maslow began her training at the Neighborhood Playhouse, where Martha Graham's early company was formed. From 1931 to 1940, Maslow was a member of the Martha Graham Company, appearing

I came across your article about Mollie Orshansky and wanted to say how grateful I was for it. I thought it might be worth mentioning that Mollie's name was actually used in the very popular TV series, The West Wing—where they acknowledge her as

I just discovered Arlene's passing through a random online search...by typing her name into google. Hardly a civilized way to discover someone I admired and who had such an impact on me, would no longer be with us. I suppose my searching Arlene's nam

Imagine if you will two women walking and talking in Central Park as the sun is rising and the city is waking. The landscape might be buds on the trees, ice or leaves crunching under foot. In all kinds of weather we walked and talked for the past 8 Yea

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I met Tikva z"l when she and I were colleagues at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. I was privlileged to see and hear her not too long before her death when, despite grave illness, she insisted on doing a series of talks in a named lec

Lisa Goldberg’s untimely and sudden passing from a brain aneurysm has left so many of us interested in Jewish women and their place in the world feeling unspeakably bereft. To say nothing of her wonderful family, her remarkable daughter, a freshm

She was involved. I remember her years as treasurer for the 43rd District Democrats when only Republicans were elected from the district. She even made the front page of the Post-Intelligencer (along with [my brother] Danny), participating in a natio

There was no artifice. There were No Games. What you saw is what you got. She showed up. She was present. She came through. When she walked in, you knew everything was going to be alright. She was a lady. She was elegant. She was beautiful. S

She was a walking contradiction:

• A woman who wasn't classically maternal, but who EVERYONE called "Mother," even her co-workers at the Bon who were OLDER than she.
• An original women's libber who could walk into any CEO's office and d

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