Sexual violence awareness workshop is for high schoolers
Ryan Torok
September 14, 2016
“Unless we are educated, everybody in this room is a potential victim, a potential perpetrator and a potential bystander.”
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Jewish Women’s Conference allows women to let down their hair
Danielle Berrin
March 5, 2015
The fourth annual Jewish Women’s Conference of Southern California, held March 1 at UCLA’s Covel Commons, proved a fertile testing ground for women’s issues today, drawing nearly 200 women of all ages and religious backgrounds to a daylong female-centric confab.
Rags or riches? NCJW/LA thrift stores offer vintage treasures
Jewish Journal
January 7, 2015
On any given weekday, Bob Klausner can be found at a number of regional thrift stores looking at the most interesting and salable art, overlooked designer handbags and finest of silver.
Channeling Purim’s Esther, Jewish women fast for immigration reform
Jonah Lowenfeld
March 13, 2014
While many devout Jews across the United States and elsewhere observed the pre-Purim tradition of fasting on Thursday, March 13, more than 200 Jewish women and men are going without food today for a different cause: immigration reform.
Jewish groups praise Senate on Violence Against Women Act
Jewish Journal
February 14, 2013
Three Jewish groups praised the U.S. Senate\’s reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and urged the House of Representatives to follow suit.
Heeding religious groups, Obama administration tweaks contraception mandate
Jewish Journal
February 1, 2013
The Obama administration simplified its definition of religious groups that would be exempt from allowing staffers contraceptive coverage.
Jewish groups push for action on gun control
Jewish Journal
December 18, 2012
In the wake of the shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., Jewish groups are looking to build alliances and back legislation to strengthen gun control laws.
Jewish groups ready to weigh in as Supreme Court considers same-sex marriage
Jewish Journal
December 11, 2012
With public acceptance of same-sex marriage growing, liberal Jewish groups are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down the Defense of Marriage Act that they have long opposed.
Jewish Women’s Conference: Putting women first
Susan Freudenheim
November 14, 2012
The talk at the second annual Jewish Women’s Conference of Southern California focused not so much on the Jewish part, as on the women’s part. Some 300 women (and one man — a devoted husband, perhaps?) filled the ballroom of UCLA’s Covel Commons on Nov. 11 for a series of sessions on activism, feminism today, women’s health, the effects of the recession on women, plus one session on Israeli women and another on rabbinical interpretations of women’s equality within Judaism.
HEALTH CARE DECISION — Jews Respond: Nancy K. Kaufman, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women
Jewish Journal
June 29, 2012
\”The US Supreme Court\’s decision to uphold the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a huge victory for women and families across the country.
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