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Discussion Questions about Factory Owner Louis Borgenicht Describing a Union Strike in His Shop

http://qa.jwa.org/node/22187

Discussion Questions about Pauline Newman’s Recollections of the Beginning of the 1909 Garment Workers’ Strike

http://qa.jwa.org/node/22182

Discussion Questions about Louis Borgenicht’s Description of Working Life at the Turn of the Century

http://qa.jwa.org/node/22134

Discussion Questions for Rose Cohen’s Recollections about Her First Day on the Job in a Piecework Shop

http://qa.jwa.org/node/22131

Benjamin Aron Slonik

Benjamin Aron Slonik, a Polish rabbi and student of the Maharshal and Rema, was notable for his independent approach to halakha. His rulings often went against his colleagues, including on women’s halakhot.

http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/slonik-benjamin-aaron
American philosopher of science May Brodbeck

May Brodbeck

May Brodbeck, whose career in the sciences ran the gamut from teaching high school chemistry to exploring fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of human consciousness, was among the foremost American-born philosophers of science.

http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/brodbeck-may
Nechama Tec

Holocaust Studies in the United States

Jewish American women have made contributions to the field of Holocaust studies in a variety of areas, including general history, women and gender, children, literary criticism, autobiography and biography, curriculum development, religious studies, sociology, psychoanalytic theory, biomedical ethics, and archive and museum curatorship.
http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/holocaust-studies-in-united-states
Tova Mirvis
June 10, 2015

Video Interview with Tova Mirvis

Tara Metal

Welcome to the JWA Book Club! We are excited to gather today to discuss Tova Mirvis's novel, Visible City.

Topics: Fiction
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/bookclub/book-club-meeting-tova-mirvis
Kim Chernin

Kim Chernin

From poetry to the probing of women’s eating disorders, from autobiography to the story of a voice, from commentary on sexual identity to Israel and Palestine, Kim Chernin’s writing, “writing consultation,” and pastoral counseling practices all arose from the “spiritual politics” and deep examination of self and society that she considered the essence of her Jewishness.

http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/chernin-kim
Paper Love by Sarah Wildman
March 11, 2015

Video Interview with Sarah Wildman

Tara Metal

Welcome to the JWA Book Club! We are excited to gather today to discuss Sarah Wildman's Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind.

Topics: Non-Fiction
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/bookclub/book-club-meeting-paper-love
October 26, 2009

Doing the "work" of identity

Judith Rosenbaum

"Who am I, anyway?" That's a question most of us ask at various points throughout our lives -- usually most noisily as adolescents but with piercing power as we grow older, too.

Topics: Film
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/off_and_running
Helen Suzman, 1959

Helen Suzman

Helen Suzman was a powerful force in the anti-apartheid movement of South Africa. As one of the few left-leaning representatives opposing an oppressive government, she not only used her influence to rally against the apartheid system but also concerned herself personally with those the system affected.
http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/suzman-helen
Condoms in a Box
November 29, 2012

Teaching Sex Ed to Young Modern Orthodox Women

Sarah Epstein

In the years I attended Modern Orthodox day schools, I received close to zero sex education. Aside from one class period in the sixth grade dedicated to menstruation and a week during my senior year devoted to learning the laws of Neidah (Jewish ritual purity laws relating to menstruation), I remained in the dark about reproduction and sexual health, as well as about how they related to my identity as a young Jewish woman.

Topics: Jewish Education, Judaism-Orthodox
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/teaching-sex-ed-to-young-modern-orthodox-women
Camp counselor surrounded by campers, all wearing white. Sitting on benches during services.
November 4, 2019

In the Image of God?

Mica Maltzman

When I was younger, around the time of my consecration, my vision of God was simple.

Topics: Jewish Education, Judaism-Reform, Theology
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/image-god

Lily Edelman

Lily Edelman, a dynamic and much-sought-after lecturer, committed her life to learning, to teaching, and to understanding multicultural society. She published books for adults and children and was able to unite her interests in adult education and writing with her work at B’nai B’rith.

http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/edelman-lily
"The Uncoupling," by Meg Wolizter, 2011
April 8, 2015

Q&A with Meg Wolitzer

Tara Metal

Welcome to the JWA Book Club! We are excited to gather today to discuss Meg Wolitzer's best-selling novel, The Uncoupling.

Topics: Fiction
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/bookclub/book-club-meeting-uncoupling
August 5, 2008

Book Revew: Normal

Lily Rabinoff-Goldman

Usually, we have used this space to review new books (see recent reviews of The Book of Dahlia, Away, and The Zookeeper's Wife), but I can not let the opportunity pass to write a bit about Amy Bloom's non-fiction book, Normal, which was first published in 2002. I had initially put Normal on the Jewesses with Attitude Summer Reading List as a whim - an aside, even, just something to accompany my reading of Away if I decided that I liked Amy Bloom. I liked Away a lot, and now, having read Normal, I like Ms. Bloom so much more.

Topics: Non-Fiction
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/normal
"The Chosen" Book Cover
March 14, 2018

One Chosen People, Many Chosen Ways

Tamar Cohen

As a young Jewish woman in contemporary society, I tend to use the word "pluralism" a lot, in a fairly abstract way. I sometimes struggle to explain this concept despite it meaning so much to me, but I have found no example better than Chaim Potok's iconic young adult novel, The Chosen. When I first read The Chosen in tenth grade, it brought on a series of mixed emotions. I was beginning the journey toward understanding my religious and secular identities, and simultaneously saw so much and so little of myself in the protagonists, Reuven and Danny.

Topics: Judaism-Orthodox, Fiction
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/one-chosen-people-many-chosen-ways
"The Feminine Mystique" Book Cover by Betty Friedan
March 18, 2020

Dear Betty Friedan

Lilah Peck

Every good dystopian novel is about a character who questions the system. In this way, Betty Friedan is like my favorite characters: Katniss, Tris, Jonas. 

Topics: Feminism
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/dear-betty-friedan
Judy Gold cropped

Judy Gold

Standup comedian Judy Gold won two Daytime Emmys for her work writing and producing the Rosie O’Donnell Show in 1998 and 1999.
http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gold-judy
Rabbi Leah Berkowitz at her Ordination
April 18, 2018

The Consequences of Professional “Negging”

Rabbi Leah Berkowitz

Having started my career young (and single, and a woman), I feared that congregations wouldn’t take me seriously. I’ve been pleasantly surprised that, once congregations invited me to be their rabbi, they’ve treated me as one, without question.

Topics: Feminism, Rabbis
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/consequences-of-professional-negging

Nelly Neumann

Nelly Neumann completed her doctorate in synthetic geometry in 1909 at Breslau University, making her one of the first women in Germany to obtain such a degree. In her lifetime she provided career guidance to female university students and worked as a secondary school teacher, tackling the intersection of philosophy and mathematics.

http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/neumann-nelly
Gilmore Girls Friday Night Dinner
October 13, 2020

We Need a Jewish Bechdel Test

Ariel Finkle

Too often Jewish characters are the butts of jokes or used as trauma porn fodder. Enter the Finkle Test.

Topics: Television, Film
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/we-need-jewish-bechdel-test
May 11, 2006

Feminist dialogue at its best

Judith Rosenbaum

Last night was the first event in the Heirs to a Revolution: Intergenerational Dialogues on Jewish Feminism series from JWA and Hebrew College, and it was really provocative. Blu Greenberg and Devorah Zlochower addressed the topic “Feminism and Orthodoxy: No Longer Strange Bedfellows?”.

Topics: Feminism, Jewish Studies, Judaism-Orthodox
http://qa.jwa.org/blog/femdialogue
Portrait of Liz Lerman

Liz Lerman

A dancer, choreographer, educator, writer, and collaborator, Liz Lerman is among the dance field’s prominent public intellectuals, bringing deeply researched ideas about dance and community across fields as diverse as genetics, history, ethics of justice and reconciliation, and the science and religion of the origins of the universe. She draws consciously on the Jewish value of tikkun olam—healing the world—in her work.

http://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lerman-liz

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