Rena Kosowsky

2020-21 Rising Voices Fellow Rena Kosowsky

Rena Kosowsky is an alumna of Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland. She spent this past spring working as an intern for the Brem Foundation, a breast cancer nonprofit, and is currently studying for a year at Midreshet Lindenbaum, a gap year program based in Jerusalem.

Blog Posts

Girl Holding #MeToo sign

It’s Time Schools Took Sexual Assault Seriously

Rena Kosowsky

By failing to educate students about sexual boundaries, my high school perpetuated a culture of assault.

Young Women Praying at the Wall

Create a Space for Women to Pray in Our Synagogues

Rena Kosowsky

As a Modern Orthodox Jew, prayer spaces for women (or lack thereof) in synagogues I've attended have made me feel like an outsider in my own religious space.

Bella Abzug at a New York Press Conference, 1972, by Diana Mara Henry

Battlin' Bella: Why We Need The ERA Today

Rena Kosowsky

I believe that Bella Abzug’s approach to the courts and legislature on issues of discrimination and inequality must be applied to activism today. 

Glasses Resting on Open Tanakh

The “Jewish Women Question”: Can Women Learn Gemara?

Rena Kosowsky

I’ve learned the value of endurance in activism through my experience with Talmud learning.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Rena Kosowsky." (Viewed on November 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/blog/author/kosowsky-rena>.