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October 16, 2005 | Filed Under Blog |I’m not so online after Sukkot, so I’m posting this early:
October 29th (motz”sh) and 30th, Barnard’s hosting a conference called Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations featuring yours truly along with folks like Alisa Solomon, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Judith Plaskow, Judith Hauptman, Irena Klepfisz, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross and my girl Lisa Jervis of Bitch Magazine. It’s free and open to the public, so if you’re in The City, come on by.
(X-posted to JewSchool)
hey- this conference sounds incredible! is there any organization that you could reccommend for travel scholarships or subsidies? thanks!
-sam (swoll(at)umich.edu)
Comment by sam — October 16, 2005 #
I don’t think that they’re funding, but you can email the Rennert people and ask. And check with your own university’s Gender Studies and Jewish Studies depts. They might have some cash around, or know who would….
Comment by Danya — October 16, 2005 #
BS”D
Wow - kudos & mazal tov & yay & kol ha-kavod, Danya! This sounds fabulous! Enjoy picking everyone’s brain & having your brain picked by some of the brainiest Jewish women around!
Comment by Soferet — October 17, 2005 #
I’ve known this was happening for a while (Hadassah told me about it), but now that I see the program I’m intrigued that there isn’t a single female pulpit rabbi on the list.
No Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Sally Priesand, Amy Eilberg, Janet Marder, Laura Geller, Lisa Edwards, Ayelet Cohen, Sharon Brous, etc.
If women in the congregational rabbinate hasn’t changed American (and world) Judaism, I don’t know what has….
Comment by Shawn Landres — October 27, 2005 #