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Interview: Jacqueline Levine
As president of the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress and a vice-president of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, Jackie Levine appealed in 1972 to the General Assembly of the council (the country's most influential Jewish organization) for the greater participation of women in Jewish communal life: Seven years ago last March I participated in the glorious March from Selma to Montgomery, a march undertaken for the purpose of securing voting rights for all Americans. I stood, one balmy Alabama night, under a starry Alabama sky, and I heard the never-to-be-forgotten voice of Martin Luther King ring out in his never-to-be-heard-again prophetic cadences as he said, "We are all witnesses together." He did not mean witness as onlooker, witness as voyeur. He meant witness-participant. And so are we women, when we ask to share in communal responsibility, asking to be witnesses, participants, in our own Jewish community.
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