Madeline Gross

Madeline Gross Headshot

Madeline Gross is a rising senior at Poly Prep Country Day school in Brooklyn. Madeline is passionate about math, cooking, fashion, literature, and world travel. Madeline’s extracurricular activities include designing sets and costumes for her school’s many shows, leading the women’s entrepreneur club and fashion club, competing in national speech and debate tournaments, serving as a peer tutor and ambassador for her school, active member of the schools GSA, boxing and serving a madrichah and continuing education student at her Brooklyn synagogue, Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope. Madeline is the youngest of three sisters and the older sibling to a 10-year-old labradoodle. In her free time, Madeline loves to cook, ski, hike, run, and travel. She’s also an avid D and D player and knows the words to most Broadway musicals. In college, Madeline hopes to study business and fashion. Madeline is super proud of her Jewish identity and enjoys the Jewish holidays and celebrations with her many cousins and relatives.

Blog Posts

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Why I Write: An Argument for Effort

Madeline Gross

Humans, at the end of the day, are simply a collection of stories to be told; without a story or someone to tell it to, we lose our humanity.

Image of four main stars of Little Women (2019)

My Very Own Little Women

Madeline Gross

[Gerwig] portrays the difference between the diverse desires of women to emphasize that there is no single correct way to exist as a woman, but that a patriarchal society will make many ways of being a woman undesirable.

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The Smallest Jew Who Ever Lived

Madeline Gross

I had never really thought before about the difference between “more” or “less” Jewish, simply that we were all Jewish and that we all celebrated, just maybe not in the same ways. 

Bella Abzug at a Press Conference in Battery Park, New York, 1972, by Diana Mara Henry

Batting Bella: Becoming a Blueprint for Jewish Feminists

Madeline Gross

Bella Abzug contributed to the causes that she was passionate about, not afraid to connect her passions and “womanly emotions” to the impacts she made.

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She Who Wears The Star Chooses Her Burdens

Madeline Gross

I am a Jewish feminist, whether or not the charms on my necklace hide. They are always with me, reminding me of who I am and who came before me.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Madeline Gross." (Viewed on July 19, 2026) <https://jwa.org/blog/author/gross-madeline>.