Journalism

The October 1975 publication of journalist and activist Susan Brownmiller’s treatise Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape recast public unde

The multi-talented performer and writer Eugenia Zukerman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 25, 1944.

On October 4, 1976, Barbara Walters became the first woman co-anchor of a major network evening news program.

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks touched and devastated every community in the United States.

Anzia Yezierska's best-known novel, Bread Givers, received a glowing review in the New York Times on September 13, 1925.

Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer and Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips were born seventeen minute

The cartoon strip Rhymes With Orange appeared in syndication for the first time on June 19, 1995.

Susan Weidman Schneider's Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Today was published on June 1, 1984.

When the National Headliners' Club included women in its ranks of prizewinning journalists for the first time in 1943, Sylvia Porter was one

On June 5, 2005, acclaimed historian Gerda Lerner received an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, who has become one of the most well-known figures in both the Jewish and secular feminist movements, was born on Jun

Born in Germany on June 17, 1908, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin became a major commentator on the nature of American Jewish life.

Public intellectual and controversial essayist Susan Sontag published her last essay, "Regarding the Torture of Others," in the May 23, 2004, editio

Lizzie Black Kander, author of The Settlement Cookbook, was born in Milwaukee, on May 28, 1858.