When History Repeats

"In the Land of Blood and Honey" premieres at Holocaust Memorial Museum

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"In the Land of Blood and Honey" poster

Angelina Jolie (not a Jewess but a definite do-gooder) visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum last week to premiere 1 comment

They will spit: In the tradition of Miriam, Jewish women will continue to challenge the establishment

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Miriam and Aaron complain against Moses

The ultra-orthodox establishment in Israel is reportedly losing sleep over women’s demands for equality.

And the winner is... Women of Valor!

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Leah Wolff-Pellingra is the winner of our contest to rename the History Makers series with her suggestion, "Women of Va

Hot Buttons: Conversations Without Women are Not Cool

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Gail Reimer

A little over 15 years ago, I found my calling. While attending a Jewish Funder’s Network conference, I received a monograph on Jewish social justice circulated to all conference participants.

Her Hat Was In The Ring: New site shares stories of women in politics before 1920

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Rose Schneiderman

Kristen Gwinn, Wendy Chmielewski, and Jill Norgren, students of women's history, had a goal: To explore whether women ran for elective office in substantial numbers before ratification of the Ninet

Meet Steampunk Emma Goldman

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Steampunk Emma Goldman

One of my favorite aspects about being Jewish is mixing tradition with the present.

Gloria Steinem: Her words as relevant today as ever

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Steinem, Gloria 1 - still image [media]

Last week, a group of JWA staffers gathered on our lunch break to watch the HBO documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words.

Three ways not to celebrate Women's Equality Day

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As second wave feminism gathered peak velocity forty years ago, the late bombastic and behatted Congresswoman (D-NY) Bella Abzug persuaded Congress t

Ultra-Orthodox photoshop of horrors: Round 2

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In May, the Hasidic Jewish newspaper, Der Tzitung, made a lot of people angry by photoshopping Hillary Clinton out of a photo in the name of tzniut, or modesty. Within days, the incident spawned a fabulous internet meme where people photoshopped women out of iconic images. The point that photoshop should not be used to erase or alter women in images as to rewrite history or reality was made ... or so we thought.