Ruth Nussbaum Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers Ruth Nussbaum preserves a Torah on Kristallnacht November 10, 1938 Ruth Nussbaum preserves a Torah on Kristallnacht. http://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/10/1938/this-week-in-history-ruth-nussbaum-preserves-torah-on-kristallnacht Ruth Nussbaum, 1911 - 2010 She understood the need for promoting religious pluralism, human rights, and democracy in Israel as fundamental Reform Jewish values. To Ruth, Jewish nationalism expressed in Zionism is a seamless and natural aspect of Reform Jewish identity. http://jwa.org/weremember/nussbaum-ruth