The Jewish Women's Congress was held at Chicago, Illinois, on 4–7 September 1893 as part of the World's Parliament of Religions at the World's Columbian...
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The World Jewish Congress (WJC) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations...
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The American Jewish Congress (AJCongress) is an association of American Jews organized to defend Jewish interests at home and abroad through public policy...
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This is a list of Jewish members of the United States Congress. As of 2023[update], there are nine Jewish senators and 26 Jewish members of the House of...
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The Women's Initiative Women's League for Conservative Judaism Women of Reform Judaism Publications Jewish Women's Archive Lilith Magazine a Jewish feminist...
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Unions, Women's Zionist Organizations with Special Status and International Jewish Organizations. Zionist participants in the World Zionist Congress are free...
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Matrilineality in Judaism (redirect from Jewish matrilineality)
Jewish requires them to have been born to a Jewish mother. A person who is born to a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father is regarded as Zera Yisrael (lit...
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United States. First Jewish member of the U.S. Congress (U.S. House of Representatives): Lewis Charles Levin (1845) First Jewish member of the U.S. Senate:...
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(as opposed to "militarized") society; the Jewish Women's Collaborative International Fund promotes women's rights and gender equality. Machsom Watch,...
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the main grievances of early Jewish feminists were women's exclusion from the all-male prayer group or minyan, women's exemption from positive time-bound...
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submitted to the Congress by a committee under the chair of Max Nordau, it was stated: "Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine...
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The First World Congress of Jewish Women was held in Vienna, Austria, from 6 to 11 May 1923. It brought together some 200 delegates from over 20 countries...
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Biblical Women". Jewish Women's Archive. "Art: Representation of Biblical Women | Jewish Women's Archive". Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane (Jul 2016). "Women in...
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arguments for the ordination of women. Similarly, in the 1893 Jewish Women's Congress the call was made by speakers for women to be ordained as rabbis. In...
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Jewish Comedian But Have Ya Heard About The Jews Who Ran Peru". The Forward. 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2023-02-25. "World Jewish Congress". World Jewish Congress...
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Stereotypes of Jews (redirect from Stereotypes of Jewish women)
ridicule Jewishness. This includes but is not limited to the complaining and guilt-inflicting Jewish mother, often along with a meek nice Jewish boy, and...
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Negiah (category Jewish marital law)
Negiah (Hebrew: נגיעה), literally "touch", is the concept in Jewish law (Halakha) that forbids or restricts sensual physical contact with a member of the...
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Bella Abzug (category Jewish American women in politics)
National Advisory Commission for Women. Abzug was a founder of the Commission for Women’s Equality of the American Jewish Congress. Bella Savitzky was born on...
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The Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to document "Jewish women's stories, elevate their voices, and...
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Zeved habat (category Hebrew words and phrases in Jewish law)
(2001). Jewish Women's Naming Rites and the Rights of Jewish Women. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, 4(1), 140-177. הסידור המפורש...
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Wolosky, Shira (2009). "Foucault and Jewish Feminism: The Meḥitzah as Dividing Practice". Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues. 17 (1):...
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A Jewish Community Center or a Jewish Community Centre (JCC) is a general recreational, social, and fraternal organization serving the Jewish community...
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Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America is an American Jewish volunteer women's organization. Founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, it is...
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This is a list of notable Jewish American politicians, arranged chronologically. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. Jerry Abramson...
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Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Founded in 1893, NCJW is self-described as the oldest Jewish women's grassroots...
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The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions...
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American Jews (redirect from Jewish-American)
related to Jewish people of the United States. American Jewish Historical Society American Jewish Archives American Jewish Congress American Jewish World Service...
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that would one day form the modern day Jewish State known as Israel, which was established in 1948. The Congress met every year from 1897 to 1901 (after...
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The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Yiddish: אַלגעמײנער ייִדישער אַרבעטער־בונד אין ליטע, פּױלן און רוסלאַנד, romanized: Algemeyner...
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