Is Outreach A Bad Word?
A few weeks ago I attended a relatively small invitation-only gathering at the Upper West Side’s Congregation B’nai Jeshurun to discuss “Jewish identity, who is a Jew, membership in the Jewish...
View ArticleGoodbye Broner: In Memory of Esther Broner
I'll admit I did not know who Esther Broner was until she died on Monday. But I certainly knew what she is most famous for: the feminist haggadah. Though her professional life was devoted to...
View ArticlePioneering Historian, Feminist Remembered
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Yale’s Paula Hyman pushed for women’s equality within Judaism.A graduate student at Columbia University in 1972, Paula Hyman was part of a dozen Jewish feminists who...
View ArticleBack To The Wall, But Still Fighting
Elicia Brown Special To The Jewish Week Anat Hoffman, Israeli feminist arrested for Kotel service, finds cause for optimism as well as anger. It is the first morning of the Hebrew month of Kislev, and...
View ArticlePioneer Among Orthodox Feminists Succumbs
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Belda Lindenbaum, 76, remembered as ‘revolutionary’ leader. Belda Lindenbaum, who described herself as “a late bloomer” in respect to feminism but who went on to make her...
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