Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations

IN THIS ISSUE

Introduction
by Janet Jakobsen

About this Issue
by Janet Jakobsen

Recommended Reading

Online Resources

PART 1
Jewish Women & the American Mainstream

A Conversation with Katya Gibel Azoulay, Liz Holtzman, Lisa Jervis, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Nancy Schwartzman, and Moderated by Laura Levitt

• Panel Introduction
• Transcript with Video Clips
• Summary
• Slideshow: Photographs by Joan Roth

PART 2
Changing Jewish Communities

A Conversation with Shifra Bronznick, Sally Gottesman, Khadijah Miller, Gina Nahai, and Moderated by Paula Hyman

• Panel Introduction
• Transcript with Video Clips
• Summary

PART 3
Changing Judaism

A Conversation with Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, Judith Hauptman, Norma Joseph, Lori Lefkovitz, Danya Ruttenberg, and Moderated by Judith Plaskow

• Panel Introduction
• Transcript with Video Clips
• Summary
• Slideshow: JWA’s Women of Valor Posters

PART 4
Changing Culture

A Conversation with Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross, Rachel Havrelock, Faith Jones, Irena Klepfisz, Alisa Solomon, and Moderated by Naomi Scheman

• Panel Introduction
• Transcript with Video Clips
• Summary

Cultural Contributions:

• Play: “From Tel Aviv to Ramallah”
  by Rachel Havrelock
• Introduction from Bridges: “Sustaining Hope in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict”
• Poem: “The Sleepwalkers”
  by Maya Barzilai
• Song: “Farlangen” (Longing) by Metropolitan Klezmer
• Poem: “’67 Remembered”
  by Irena Klepfisz

PART 5
Jewish Women’s Archive at the Conference

Voices of Challenge and Change: Jewish Women Speak Out about Feminism

Slideshow: “Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution”