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Selma Stern-Taeubler was born in Kippenheim bei Lahr in southern Germany on July 24, 1890. The first girl accepted to her local school, she graduated with honors in 1908.

On July 2, 1965, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) commenced operations.

Irma Lindheim, a wealthy American-born Jewish woman, joined Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek on October 30, 1933.

Jennifer Gorovitz was named Chief Executive Officer of the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation, one of the largest federations in the country.

In a talk at Harvard University on "Identity, Diversity, and Human Rights," Canada Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella shared her family's Holocaust story and explained how it informs he

President Barack Obama named Amanda Simpson to the position of Senior Technical Adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Lesléa Newman’s Heather Has Two Mommies is the first children’s book about a family with two moms.

“I think I’m universally acknowledged to be the darkest, dark horse in the fiction field,” said Jaimy Gordon at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York City on November 17, 2010.

“We women are gathering because life on the precipice is intolerable,” Women’s Pentagon Action declared in a unity statement before its march from Arlington National Cemetery to the Pentagon on Nov

On October 16, 2010, the Kadima Reconstructionist Jewish Community in Seattle read from the first Torah ever commissioned to be written by a group of women.

North Carolinians came together on November 8, 1997, to honor one the state’s civic leaders and pathbreaking women.

Rabbi Jill Hammer (featured on jwa.org) and Holly Shere founded the Kohenet Institute on November 23, 2005, based on a shared vision of Je

In the summer of 2010, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston received an unexpected bequest to endow a Curatorship for Judaica and increase its small but significant collection of Jewish art objects.

Ruth Wisse grew up speaking Yiddish with her family and would make a career of preserving the language’s legacy and literature.

Loren Galler Rabinowitz a gifted pianist, Bronze-medal winning ice skater, and poet who graduated from Harvard in 2010 with plans to pursue a career in medicine, won the Miss Massachusetts title in 2

Russian piano virtuoso Rosina Bessie Lhevinne’s (1880-1976) career traversed oceans and eras.

In the fall of 2009, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco launched the project “As It Is Written,” which allowed visitors to watch the pai

The first female President of this 104-year-old Orthodox congregation, Jackie Gothard had presided over the burial of seven Torah scrolls damaged beyond repair when the synagogue was flooded.