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Ruth F. Brin

Ruth F. Brin helped transform modern prayer with her evocative writing, translation, and poetry. Brin began writing liturgical poetry in the 1950s, using vivid imagery from her own experience and...

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Felice Cohn

Felice Cohn was one of Nevada’s first women lawyers and the fourth woman permitted to argue before the US Supreme Court. Cohn was admitted to the Nevada Bar in 1902, at age eighteen, and was admitted...

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Frances Allen de Ford

Doctor Frances Allen de Ford pioneered hygiene initiatives in the malaria-ridden, working-class Kensington district of Philadelphia. De Ford was raised in a philanthropic family with a tradition of...

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Naomi Deutsch

A leader in the field of public health nursing, Naomi Deutch spearheaded health and sanitation campaigns in the US, Central America, and the Caribbean. Deutch earned degrees from the Jewish Hospital...

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Ellen, Bonnie, Heather, and Sylvie write home from Freedom Summer

Heather Booth playing guitar for Fannie Lou Hamer during the Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi, 1964. Photo credit: Wallace Roberts. Permission to use granted by Heather Booth.August 12, 1964“This...

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Death of Carolyn Goodman, not just a Jewish mother

Photo: Andrew Goodman Foundation.August 17, 2007“[Carolyn Goodman] deserves even more to be remembered for her own part as a role model, not just as a Jewish mother, but as an activist and as a force...

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Mary Belle Grossman

Mary Belle Grossman made history in 1918 as one of the first two women admitted to the American Bar Association, then dedicated her career to protecting women. Grossman decided to become a lawyer while...

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Ida Espen Guggenheimer

Ida Espen Guggenheimer supported Zionism, civil rights, and feminism throughout her life, from hosting talks on birth control to supporting political prisoners. Guggenheimer raised funds to help...

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Janet Harris

Janet Simons Harris shepherded the National Council of Jewish Women through one of the most divisive times in its history and led both national and international efforts for women’s rights. Harris...

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Bertha Beitman Herzog

Bertha Beitman Herzog’s leadership of women’s organizations in Cleveland created a safety net for women and children throughout the region. Herzog moved to Cleveland Heights, Ohio in 1900, shortly...

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Rhoda Kaufman

Rhoda Kaufman helped create social welfare organizations throughout Georgia and overcame prejudice against her religion and gender to become one of the most respected social reformers in the country....

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Anna Moscowitz Kross

Anna Moscowitz Kross helped reform the New York prison system by curbing abuses and offering felons chances to train in new skills. Moskowitz graduated from NYU law school in 1910 but had to wait to...

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Sarah Kussy

With seemingly limitless energy, Sarah Kussy helped found and lead a variety of major Jewish organizations like Hadassah, the United Synagogue’s Women’s League, and Young Judea. In 1906 Kussy became...

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Adele Lewisohn Lehman

Adele Lewisohn Lehman’s career as a philanthropist and organizational leader spanned both the Jewish community and the secular world. Married to investment banker Arthur Lehman of Lehman Brothers in...

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Jennie Davidson Levitt

Jennie Davidson Levitt continued her family’s tradition of activism and philanthropy with her work for Jewish organizations, including resettling Jewish refugees during and after WWII. Levitt’s father,...

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Ruth Lewinson

Ruth Lewinson, one of the first female Jewish lawyers in America, both worked in private practice and gave public lectures on practical law to help people better navigate the legal system. Lewinson...

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Clara Lipman

Clara Lipman based her long and successful career as an actress and playwright on her ingénue performances and her gift for light comedy. Lipman made her New York debut in 1885 in The Rat Catcher...

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Anna 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...

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Pearl 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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Maud Nathan

After her daughter’s death, Maud Nathan battled grief by throwing herself into social justice work, transforming herself from a simple society wife to influential social reformer. Nathan, a member of...

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