This fall, join JWA and Central Synagogue for a deep dive into the protests of Jewish women, who have fought for change from factory floors to college campuses to legislative sessions. Learn with four leading scholars as they show how Jewish women’s voices and actions reshaped our cultural and political landscape. Register here.

Thursday, Nov 14, 8 PM ET—Tamar W. Carroll, Jewish Women’s Protest in the 20th Century 

Jewish women have been involved in myriad forms of protest on countless social and political issues over the last century. What tactics have they taken, and how have different movements influenced each other? This talk will provide some snapshots of different approaches to social change Jewish women have pursued in the United States. 

 Tamar W. Carroll is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Rochester Institute of Technology. Among other works, she is the author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism and the co-curator of “Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: New York City, 1980-2000. 

Thursday, Nov 21, 8 PM ET—Annelise Orleck, Jewish Women and Labor Activism 

Jewish women were at the heart of the labor movement in the U.S. From the picket line to the stage, their protests for fair wages, decent working conditions, and equal pay created change for American workers and shaped both labor and women's movements for years to come. 

Annelise Orleck teaches U.S. history, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of five books on the history of women, labor, immigration and poor people's movements. Among them are two works primarily on Jewish subjects: Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States and Soviet Jewish Americans.

Thursday, Dec 5, 8 PM ET—Samira K. Mehta, Jewish Women and the Fight for Reproductive Justice 

What roles did Jewish women play in the fight for abortion and birth control? How have they advocated for reproductive freedom in the years since Roe v. Wade? Learn about how their protest and activism have shaped the struggle for reproductive justice in the U.S in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

Samira K. Mehta is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also serves as the Director of Jewish Studies. She is the author of Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States, The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging, and God Bless the Pill: Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion. 

Thursday, Dec. 12, 8 PM ET—Jillian M. Hinderliter, Jewish Women and the Women’s Health Movement 

Drawing directly from archival collections and feminist publications from the 1970s, Jillian Hinderliter will explore how American Jewish women helped create the women's health movement and the role Jewish identity played in shaping their health activism. 

Jillian M. Hinderliter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Moses M. and Hannah L. Malkin Fellow in Jewish History and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches courses on Jewish women in America since 1654, feminist thought, and women’s health activism in the twentieth-century United States. 

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