This Week in History

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March 17—March 23

1922

Judith Kaplan Celebrates First American Bat Mitzvah Ceremony

Judith Kaplan Eisenstein at her Second Bat Mitzvah

March 18

1970

Writer Grace Paley arrested at Vietnam protest

"The Collected Stories" by Grace Paley, 1998

March 19

1893

Senda Berenson officiates at first collegiate women's basketball game

Senda Berenson

March 22

2005

Judith Leiber handbags featured in First Lady museum exhibit

Judith Leiber

March 22

1962

The "New York Times" reports on Barbra Streisand's Broadway debut

Barbra Streisand

March 23

2009

Elena Kagan confirmed by US Senate as first woman Solicitor General of the United States

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

March 19

1919

Birth of Sally Lilienthal, founder of Ploughshares Fund

Sally Lilienthal

March 19

1935

Mary Goldsmith Prag, California educator and mother of the first Jewish Congresswoman, dies

Mary Goldsmith Prag, 1965

March 17

2006

Death of social activist Sophie Gerson

Sophie Gerson

March 20

1994

Death of Estelle Joan Sommers, “Empress of Dance”

Estelle Joan Sommers

March 21

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Jewish Women's Archive. "This Week in History." (Viewed on March 22, 2025) <http://qa.jwa.org/thisweek>.