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Olympians
Bobbie Rosenfeld and Aly Raisman may both have won Olympic gold against fierce competition, but they competed in vastly different worlds. Rosenfeld spent her career arguing that women could and should...
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Cookbook Authors
When Jews call themselves the People of the Book, we generally mean the Bible, but the cookbook runs a close second. There is nothing that can unite us like describing the smells and tastes of our...
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Edith Flagg built a multi–million–dollar fashion empire through her innovative use of polyester. Born Edith Feuerstein and raised in Romania, she returned to Vienna to study fashion at age fifteen....
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Nina Totenberg’s journalism ignites the Anita Hill hearings.
Nina TotenbergOctober 11, 1991Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio’s legal affairs correspondent, entered the Russell Senate Office building on October 11, 1991 expecting a routine working day --...
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Elma Ehrlich Levinger helped strengthen the Jewish community through her leadership of Jewish women’s organizations, but her books for children and adults may have had an even greater impact on...
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Sonia Levitin
Sonia Levitin mined both her personal history and major historical events for her award–winning books for children and young adults. Levitin’s family fled Germany in 1938 and settled first in New York,...
View ArticleFlorence Nightingale Levy
Florence Nightingale Levy founded important journals and led a multitude of institutions that would shape our national relationship to art. Levy studied at the National Academy of Art and Design,...
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Flora Lewis
Called “the world’s greatest correspondent” by New York Times editor A.M. Rosenthal, Flora Lewis covered the defining moments of the twentieth century and became a bureau chief for the Times. Lewis...
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Moving "Forward"?
Idina Menzel, one of 2014's "Forward 50"First of all, let me make clear that I sincerely hope this isn’t “The Year of the Jewish Woman,” as the headline of the Jewish Daily Forward’s“Forward 50” list...
View ArticleJudith Pinta Mandelbaum
As both a leader of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America (Amit) and editor of its journals, Judith Pinta Mandelbaum shaped the organization for over forty years. Mandelbaum was active as a...
View ArticleAnna Margolin
Under the name Anna Margolin, Rosa Lebensboim wrote what critics called some of the finest Yiddish poetry of the earliest twentieth century. In 1906 Margolin immigrated to New York, where she met the...
View ArticleLenore Guinzburg Marshall
A talented writer and poet in her own right, editor Lenore Guinzburg Marshall pushed her publishing company to publish William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury after it had been rejected by twelve...
View ArticlePearl Bernstein Max
Pearl Bernstein Max directed the staggering work of fusing four different colleges—City, Hunter, Brooklyn, and Queens—into the City University of New York. Max studied history and political science at...
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Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks had a stellar career as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, but it was her 2005 novel March which won her the Pulitzer Prize. Brooks graduated from the University of...
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Anita Diamant
Both through her writing and through her work as founding president of Mayyim Hayyim, Anita Diamant has breathed new life into Jewish midrash and rituals. Diamant graduated from Washington University...
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Margot Adler, 1946 - 2014
Margot Adler at the KGB Bar Fantastic Fiction Reading Series in 2010.Margot was seven and a half years my senior and, with the exception of a few gaps, she’s always been a part of my life. There is...
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Leslie Feinberg, 1949 - 2014
Leslie Feinberg, photo courtesy of Marilyn Humphreys.I was in an alleyway in Chicago the first time someone told me about Stone Butch Blues. “You’ve got to read this book,” she said. “Stone Butch...
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Shulamith Nardi
Shulamith Nardi helped shape relations between Jews and gentiles in the fledgling State of Israel through her analysis of Jewish literature and her work as advisor on Diaspora affairs to four Israeli...
View ArticleAdele Gutman Nathan
With a lifelong passion for both theater and history, Adele Gutman Nathan made a career of creating historical pageants, leading to her crowning achievement, writing a guide for Americans to celebrate...
View ArticleJill Abramson
As the first female executive editor of the New York Times from 2011–2014, Jill Abramson fought to change the newspaper’s culture, mentoring female reporters, choosing female bureau chiefs and focusing...
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