The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish women. From our Encyclopedia to our blog to our lesson plans, check it all out at http://jwa.org
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I was not surprised by the recent headline in the Forward stating “Jewish women lag behind men in promotion and pay.” Nu? What else is new? Th...
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Healthcare Reform bill only after Democrats caved on abortion, allowing the Stupak Amendment to be added in order to move the bill along...
Merry Lynne Thanks for being on facebook so I can share your site with my facebook friends.
Gale C Vance I'm looking forward to reading your facebook comments...whoever you are. :)
In a recent interview with Lisa Leingang in the New York Times, Melena Ryzik asks the question: "Why are there so few women in comedy?" To answer it, you have to approach it the way Bill Clinton did during the Monica Lewinsky period. We have to deconstruct the terms. read more
Yesterday's gay marriage defeat in Maine reminds us that civil rights should not necessarily be decided by a majority vote. [The Daily Beast] [Choices Campus] Rumors of a Jewish woman for President? Could Debbie Wasserman Schultz be the first?read more
Jewish Women's Archive "I was running [for Congress] not because I happened to be a woman but because I was a woman." ~Bella Abzug, Induction Speech, National Women's Hall of Fame, NY, 9/24/94
Today is the first Tuesday in November, which means that for those of us freezing our toes off up north, it's finally time to turn on the heat...
The blogosphere and my inbox, have been buzzing with response to former Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman’s rather bizarre piece on modern womanhood in The New York Times, “The Mismeasure of Woman,” which has spent several days floating around on the paper’read more
The Good: When divorce is a reason to celebrate. [Sisterhood]...
Yesterday, Oct. 28, 2009, heralded a historic moment for human rights as President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr...
Karen Pike Photography Ann Zinn Buffum came to JWA through “midnight web searches” for family history. She was surprised to discover that Madeleine May Kunin, the first woman Governor of Vermont, was the only Vermonter to be featured on jwa.org. “S...
Jewish Women's Archive
Did you see our post on Jewish hair? Now it's a Flickr group! Share a photo of your great, Jewish hair today! http://www.flickr.com/groups/myjewishhai
Source: www.flickr.com
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
Source: jwablog.jwa.org
The buzz about Good Hair, Chris Rock's new documentary about Black hair, has got me thinking about "Jewish hair": what it is, what it means, and where I -- a straight-haired woman -- fit into this curious piece of Jewish identity.
