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Rena Kosowsky

2020-21 Rising Voices Fellow Rena Kosowsky

Rena Kosowsky is an alumna of Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland. She spent this past spring working as an intern for the Brem Foundation, a breast cancer nonprofit, and is currently studying for a year at Midreshet Lindenbaum, a gap year program based in Jerusalem.

Blog Posts

Girl Holding #MeToo sign
November 9, 2021

It’s Time Schools Took Sexual Assault Seriously

Rena Kosowsky

By failing to educate students about sexual boundaries, my high school perpetuated a culture of assault.

Topics: Feminism, Women's Rights, Schools, Civil Rights
Young Women Praying at the Wall
May 28, 2021

Create a Space for Women to Pray in Our Synagogues

Rena Kosowsky

As a Modern Orthodox Jew, prayer spaces for women (or lack thereof) in synagogues I've attended have made me feel like an outsider in my own religious space.

Topics: Women's Rights, Judaism-Orthodox, Synagogues/Temples
Bella Abzug at a New York Press Conference, 1972, by Diana Mara Henry
April 9, 2021

Battlin' Bella: Why We Need The ERA Today

Rena Kosowsky

I believe that Bella Abzug’s approach to the courts and legislature on issues of discrimination and inequality must be applied to activism today. 

Topics: Civil Rights, Women's Rights
Glasses Resting on Open Tanakh
October 26, 2020

The “Jewish Women Question”: Can Women Learn Gemara?

Rena Kosowsky

I’ve learned the value of endurance in activism through my experience with Talmud learning.

Topics: Feminism, Judaism-Orthodox, Talmud

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Rena Kosowsky." (Viewed on March 30, 2023) <https://jwa.org/blog/author/kosowsky-rena>.