Jordan Namerow

Jordan Namerow

Jordan Namerow is a feminist writer, strategic communications professional, and facilitator. With more than fifteen years of experience in the non-profit sector, she is passionate about helping leaders deepen their impact at the nexus of storytelling and social change. Much of her work centers on helping women, girls, and LGBTQ people elevate their voices and claim their power to make the world more equitable for everyone. Prior to founding her strategic communications firm, Jordan held a variety of roles in Jewish social justice organizations, including at the Jewish Women’s Archive and American Jewish World Service. A graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University, Jordan lives in Boston with her wife Idit Klein, their son Lior, and their dog Langston.

Blog Posts

Who says there are only four questions?

Jordan Namerow

Yesterday,the Jewish Women's Archive sent out a Passover e-greeting with the subject line: "Who says there are only four questions?" One of several responses to ourgreeting was from Nina Amir who affirmed that, indeed, there are far more than four questions to explore on Passover.

Topics: Passover

Live Webcast of Today's Ann Arbor Symposium ... with Women We Love!

Jordan Namerow

In case you thought New York was the ‘be all, end all' of Jewish life, think again. Step aside, Upper West Side, because Ann Arbor, Michigan is where the action's at today.

Topics: Activism

Remembering Janet Jagan, President of Guyana

Jordan Namerow

You might have read in the New York Times or in the Boston Globe that Janet Jagan, the first woman elected president of Guyana, died at age 88 this past weekend.

Oranges, Miriam's Cup, and Other Passover Rituals

Jordan Namerow

Passover is next week. How did that happen?! I haven't even begun to prepare, but was reminded that I better get on the ball after reading the opinion piece "Raising Cups, Dropping Oranges" by Aurora Mendelsohn in the Forward. Mendelsohn discusses the ways in which her Seder's feminist rituals have changed over the past decade: Miriam's Cup has endured while the orange on the Seder plate has disappeared.

Topics: Passover, Ritual

Women's History Month Podcast Feature #3

Jordan Namerow

The third and final feature in JWA’s Women’s History Month podcast series, Jewish Women and Political Leadership, is now live! Listen to four political activists reflect on their journeys in shaking up the political “boy’s club” and tipping the gender scales -- from confronting miniscule quotas for women in law school, to pushing women’s health legislation in Congress, to becoming the first Jewish woman elected to the Maryland State Senate.

Women's History Month Podcast Feature #2

Jordan Namerow

Out from the balcony and onto the bimah! Introducing JWA's second Women's History Month podcast feature, Jewish Women and Religious Innovation. Learn how Hadassah Blocker, Sally Priesand, and Marcia Falk created religious experience on their own terms, expanding opportunities for women's religious participation in their own communities and for American Jews at large.

A Look at "How Jews Look" and "The Colors of Water"

Jordan Namerow

A few weeks ago, MyJewishLearning.com released "How Jews Look", a four-and-a-half minute film profiling a few Jews reflecting upon their own appearances in connection with their Jewish identities. A lively and somewhat heated conversation about "How Jews Look" emerged on Jewschool.

Topics: Film

Podcasts for Women's History Month!

Jordan Namerow

Happy Women's History Month! This may come as a shock, but at the Jewish Women's Archive, every month -- correction: every minute of every month -- is Women's History Month. Still, there's no reason why we shouldn't do something special on cue with the Gregorian calendar, right? Of course.

Women crunch numbers, too. Like Barbara Liskov.

Jordan Namerow

Think you can't survive without your computer? The Internet? The blogosphere? Me too. It's easy for me (and for many of us, I think) to forget about the brains, number crunching, and rigorous research that enable us to post blog entries, read the NY Times online, or shop for shoes with just the click of a mouse.

Topics: Technology

Trafficking, Sex Work, ... and Purim?

Jordan Namerow

Purim starts in a few hours, and while the holiday is considered by many to be the most joyous in the Jewish calendar, there is a somber side as well.

Topics: Purim

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