#  Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff 

   ![Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_crop_168x168/public/mediaobjects/jennifer.jpg?itok=nferlbWf "Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff") 

 

Jennifer is a Jewish storyteller, educator, and coach based in Baltimore, Maryland. Jennifer’s original story, “Rina and the Exodus” was published in the anthology, [Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration](http://www.reclaimingjudaism.org/node/242), a National Jewish Book Award finalist. The Macks Center for Jewish Education commissioned the six original stories included on Jennifer’s CD, [‘The Growing Season’](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-growing-season/id477160730). Jennifer facilitates the Storytelling Teacher Training project at Krieger Schechter Day School, Goldsmith Early Childhood Learning Center, and Chizuk Amuno Congregation. For nine years Jennifer has co-taught the Oral History of the Holocaust course at Goucher College, individually coaching each of her students.



## Blog Posts

 [   ![Women of the Wall Prayer Service in Gan Miriam, Jerusalem](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_crop_250x167_center/public/mediaobjects/Womens-Tfilah-1.jpg?itok=uKWpbASY "Women of the Wall Prayer Service in Gan Miriam, Jerusalem") 

 

 ](/blog/when-woman-cannot-mourn) April 5, 2013## [When a Woman Cannot Mourn](/blog/when-woman-cannot-mourn)

 [ Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff ](/blog/author/jennifer-rudick-zunikoff)The [Women of the Wall](/encyclopedia/article/women-of-wall) have been fighting for a woman’s right to pray at the Western Wall since 1988.

Today’s featured poet, [Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff](http://jenniferstories.com/), responds to the latest challenge facing these women- the right to say [Kaddish](/encyclopedia/glossary/kaddish) and mourn at the Western Wall.



 Topics: [Prayer](/topics/prayer), [Poetry](/topics/poetry)