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JWA's Online History Course: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Global Jewish Experience continues Thurs at 12 PM ET! Join us with Shahanna McKinney-Baldon to discover the story Madame Goldye Steiner, the first known African-American woman singer of Ashkenazi liturgical music: https://buff.ly/3CJXvOV

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"No one listens so closely or hears so deeply as a translator." Poets Else Lasker-Schüler, Mascha Kaléko, Anna Margolin, and Rachel Blaustein transformed language, identity, and poetry itself—yet their names remain overlooked in literary history.

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JWA March Book Talks start in just a few weeks! Register: https://buff.ly/4i3Vg7N 🔷 Thursday, March 13, 12 PM ET—Beth Kander, I Made It Out of Clay 🔷 Thursday, March 20, 12 PM ET—Ayelet Tsabari, Songs for the Brokenhearted 🔷 Thursday, March 27, 12 PM ET—Sara Glass, Kissing Girls on Shabbat

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JWA's Online History Course continues tomorrow, Feb 20 at 12 PM ET! Dr. Shula Mola will unfold the history and culture of the Beta Israel women of the village of Enkash and explore how their unique religious practices created space for resistance to patriarchy. Register: https://buff.ly/4aWXymX

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Often categorized as “folklore” and seen as separate from official patriarchal religion, the women's religious culture of Eastern European Jewry formed a crucial part of Ashkenazi life. Learn more about women religious workers in Eastern Europe in our new encyclopedia entry: https://buff.ly/40Ry0Vb

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"In politics obedience and support are the same.” Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" argues that Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was no monster, but an ordinary man following orders. Published #ThisWeekInHistory in 1963, it remains timely: https://buff.ly/4aKHsN7

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As anti-trans rhetoric and policies escalate across the country, Jewish tradition calls us to respond with courage and compassion. Join us Feb 19 for an evening of learning and action as we pledge to affirm trans dignity and stand in solidarity with trans individuals: https://buff.ly/3QlUGGR

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A former prostitute herself, Maime Pinzer’s approach to community and sex workers in the early 1900s stood out amongst the morality-concerned reformers and religious authorities of the time. Read more in our new encyclopedia entry: https://buff.ly/4gpiN26

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Olga Benário, a Communist revolutionary, was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1908. Though she was executed at age 34, Benário had an impactful career as a revolutionary. She carried out this work even in the midst of Nazism in her home country and fascism abroad. https://buff.ly/40RvIVI

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"I’m praying and fighting for a world where every single human can live in freedom and dignity, where nobody is treated as disposable, and where everyone can thrive." JWA chats with musician, song and prayer leader, and cultural organizer Batya Levine.

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"If we allow our history to be erased, and cover the parts that are inconvenient to those in power, what was once done in the dark will be done again—this time, in broad daylight."—Marcella White Campbell, Director of JWA's Pomegranate Writing Fellowship.

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We’re thrilled to announce the inaugural cohort of the new Pomegranate Writing Fellowship for Jewish Women of Color! Mazel tov: 🔶 Sai Jallow Edelstein 🔶 Rachel Faulkner 🔶 Emily McDonnell 🔶 Anjelica Ruiz 🔶 Hannah Joy Sachs Read more: https://buff.ly/40XhQbh

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Opening art exhibit and reception tomorrow (2/13) at the Kniznick Gallery! Looking forward @hannahaltman.bsky.social and thank you @jwaonline.bsky.social for sponsoring the reception! @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social

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Tu BiShvat celebration, 1942. The new year for the trees starts tonight. 🍃 💚 📷 Photo by Zoltan Kruger. https://buff.ly/40LJR5x

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TOMORROW: Online History Course: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Global Jewish Experience February 13 at 12 PM ET: Join our Online History Course with Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah for "Jewish Women and Modernity in Turn-of-the-Century Baghdad" Register: https://buff.ly/4hmUwe6

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Our next Online History Course on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Global Jewish Experience starts this week! Up first: Thursday, February 13, 12 PM ET—Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, Jewish Women and Modernity in Turn-of-the-Century Baghdad Register: https://buff.ly/4hmUwe6

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👏 Reproductive 👏 freedom 👏 is a 👏 Jewish value. JWA is excited to partner with @ncjw.bsky.social for #ReproShabbat, a nationwide event celebrating the importance of reproductive freedom and Judaism’s teachings about reproductive health, rights, and justice. ReproShabbat.org

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For decades, Sharon Alterman has fought for developmentally disabled people to be included in her Jewish community. As we celebrate Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month, let’s take a look back through Sharon’s eyes and appreciate how far we’ve come: https://buff.ly/4jQ4jeC

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As the first Latin American woman to be ordained a Conservative rabbi, Analia Bortz merged her identity as Latina with her careers in the rabbinate and medicine to help Latin American Jewish women achieve equality. She was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1967. https://buff.ly/4axbAeM

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"We dream that Artful Disclosure will embed into the lives of institutions so that new groups of women discover its ability to mine and share and celebrate their stories." JWA chats with the creators of our program that honors Jewish women through visual storytelling: https://buff.ly/3Q37PEL

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Know a teen writer who is passionate about Judaism, feminism, and social justice? JWA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 Rising Voices Fellowship! Tell the future leader in your life to apply by April 1, 2025. More info: https://buff.ly/4hJE73s

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Margarete Zuelzer’s life epitomizes the lives of women scientists in the first half of the twentieth century. Born# ThisWeekInHistory in 1877, she was one of the first generation of women scientists in Germany. Unable to find refuge from Nazis, she was murdered in 1943. https://buff.ly/3CzyaXB

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Orthodox feminist Arlene Agus (1949 – 2024) was known for her fervid connection to Jewish liturgy. https://buff.ly/3E2DfYO Arlene taught us to lift our voices in public and buck the norms of her day in service of what she knew to be true—that Jewish women deserve to sit at table. #WeRemember

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My daughter is a fellow in this year's #RisingVoices cohort and has so appreciated how the program has helped her develop as a writer, an activist, and a feminist. Know a kiddo who wants to develop their literary voice? @jwaonline.bsky.social is accepting apps through 4/1. jwa.org/risingvoices

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"Yavilah McCoy’s African-American family has, four generations and counting, been on a journey into Jewish living. Along the way, she and her ancestors enriched the Jewish community in ways that are only starting to be felt on a broader stage." #BlackHistoryMonth

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Born in Budapest, the abstractly organic shapes of Eva Zeisel’s iconic pottery are featured in the MoMA. She experimented with feminine imagery and shapes within her pottery and became iconic for this style. Read more in our new encyclopedia entry: https://buff.ly/42tT4ls

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“Mother and me at candle-lighting time,” 1999, by multimedia artist Helene Aylon. Aylon was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1931. Shabbat shalom 🕯️ 🕯️ https://buff.ly/40QkvoD

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In a 2016 episode of our podcast, we turned to poet Emma Lazarus, the Jewish woman who gave the statue of liberty a voice and transformed her into the symbolic mother of exiles. Now, as Trump orders the deportation of immigrants, that conversation feels relevant all over again: buff.ly/4hyflTF

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Group of Yemenite Jews, Jerusalem, Palestine, approx. 1900-1920. #NewToTheArchives 📷 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. https://buff.ly/3PstvK9

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Yesterday's @jwaonline.bsky.social's academic advisory council meeting confirmed yet again that they are the real, visionary deal.

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"Jewitches exists as a means of creating an emporium of curated goods from across the Diaspora." JWA chats with Zohare Jacobi, founder of @jewitches.bsky.social

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During the 1970s-80s, when the issue of women’s equality was at the forefront of Conservative Judaism, Dr. Judith Lax took on leadership roles in her congregation and in the USA that were previously held exclusively by men. Read more in our new encyclopedia entry: https://buff.ly/4gKThoR

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Dive into Yiddish women’s poetry with the Yiddish Book Center's online course, “Froyen lider: Reading Yiddish Women’s Poetry Together" on Tuesdays, Feb 4, 11, 18, and 25, from 7–8:30 PM ET! More info & register: https://buff.ly/3POS7gb

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👋 This includes us. And we’re loving our new Bluesky community!

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"999: The Forgotten Girls" is a documentary that tells the story of the 999 young women who made up the first official transport of Jews to Auschwitz in 1942. This Holocaust Remembrance Day, read JWA's interview with film director Heather Dune Macadam: jwa.org/blog/q-heath...

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Young Jewish woman, North Africa (likely Tunisia), circa 1930. #FromTheArchives 📷 From the Jewish Chronicle Archive/Heritage Images. https://buff.ly/3BWrySZ

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Frances Perkins' political opponents spun a conspiracy theory and circulated a rumor that Perkins was secretly Jewish. The false claim tells us as much about antisemitism and Jewishness in the 1930s US as it does about Perkins, if not more.

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We made a Jewish feminist starter pack for our great new community here! Who should we add? go.bsky.app/MNtodjs

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Prolific Indian-Jewish painter Amrita Sher-Gil was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1913! 📷 Amrita painting "Brahmacharis", 1937, Image courtesy of Delhi Art Gallery.

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Kinda want to make a Jewish feminist starter pack 👀 who should we include?

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JWA's first online history course of 2025 has officially arrived! ✨ Join us Thursdays at 12 PM from Feb 13 - Mar 6 for Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Global Jewish Experience. Register: https://buff.ly/3CkgBuw

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Today we are taking a moment to mark this “un-anniversary” of Roe v. Wade with renewed resolve and commitment to a more inclusive and unstoppable Jewish movement for abortion access and reproductive freedom for all. We have always known this fight will be long and demanding.

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@annsplaining.bsky.social 's new amazing reader for @jwaonline.bsky.social highlights Ashkenazi women's leadership in healthcare & healing, the expression of emotion, & connection with ancestry, "broaden[ing] our understanding not only of women’s religious role, but of Ashkenazi Judaism itself."

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So excited to see many JWA Book List and Book Talk authors on this list! Mazel tov!

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"Charlaque lived through perhaps one of the most horrific periods in world history as a Jew AND as a transgender woman, AND she survived."

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Cynthia Ozick has won widespread acclaim for her writing depicting the Jewish-American experience and for her memorable, nuanced female characters. https://buff.ly/4hcuAkT #ThisWeekInHistory in 1983, Ozick won the Harold Strauss Living Award, a prize among the largest available to American writers.

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