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Heather Booth statement excerpt on social values and Jewish tradition

I grew up in a family that had good social values, reflected in our Jewish heritage, culture, and history. When I was growing up, at one point I wanted to be a rabbi, but was told (at that time) women couldn’t be rabbis. I went to Israel when I graduated from high school in 1963, and the experience of Yad Vashem (the Holocaust museum) had a transforming effect on me: I promised myself that in the face of injustice I would struggle for justice.

Heather Booth, statement for the Jewish Women's Archive's online exhibition Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (http://jwa.org/feminism/index.html?id=JWA004), 2005.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Heather Booth statement excerpt on social values and Jewish tradition." (Viewed on March 28, 2024) <http://jwa.org/media/heather-booth-statement-excerpt-on-social-values-and-jewish-tradition>.