Jewish women and Jewish clergy have played an important role in the struggle for reproductive rights, both before and after Roe and Dobbs. Moderated by HBI Director Lisa Fishbayn Joffe and joined by Becca Rausch, Massachusetts State Senator, Melissa Klapper, historian and current HBI Scholar in Residence, Daphne Lazar Price, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) Executive Director, and Lara Crawford, National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) MA, we explored the history of Jewish women's activism for reproductive rights and the various forms advocacy is taking in the present moment with a look at the recent rupture in coalition-building caused by the failure of many sister feminist groups and national women’s and children’s advocacy groups to condemn Hamas' massacre of Israeli men, women, children and babies in Southern Israel on October 7th.
JOFA's Daphne Lazar Price recently wrote about this: I believed diverse coalitions would benefit Jewish women. Now I fear we were all alone, JTA, 11/27/23.
Supported by grants from Combined Jewish Philanthropies/CJP and the Mass Cultural Council.
