Women’s Liberation and Jewish Identity: Bringing it home

Last week, I had the great privilege of attending the conference “Women’s Liberation and Jewish Identity: Uncovering a legacy of innovation, activism, and social change.” (JWA was a conference sponsor, and you can check out Judith Rosenbaum’s response to the conference here!) As a research intern for Professor Joyce Antler, the conference convenor, this past summer, I spent hours reading short essays, activist statements, and poetry by many of the conference’s speakers, who were primarily Jewish women involved in feminist activism in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Seeing their words come to life as they spoke to an audience of peers, academics, and a few young feminists was enlightening, particularly as it provided me with a chance to rethink my own relationship to Jewish feminism as it relates to Jewish ritual practice.

Read more : @ jwablog.jwa.org

Readers found more information by searching for:

• Women’s Liberation and Jewish Identity Antler (2)
• Jewish feminism and womens identity (1)
• womens liberation (1)

You might also like:

• 5 ways that frum women can empower themselves
• Gloria Feldt’s “No Excuses” says: “Know your history!”
• The Feminist Funder
• The Lessons of Women’s Equality Day
• Put a Jewish woman in environmental activism “On the Map!”