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On November 29, 1862, Phoebe Yates Levy Pember wrote a letter to her sister indicating that she was about “to take charge of one o

When Ilona Karmel died on November 30, 2000, she was remembered as the author of the novel, An Estate of Memory.

Israeli and American women joined together and attempted to pray as a group at the Western Wall for the first time on December 1, 1988.

A new synagogue, dedicated in Newport, Rhode Island on December 2, 1763, introduced an important innovation in synagogue design.

In her short stories and novels, author Anzia Yezierska focused on the challenges faced by young Jewish women trying to navigate between their im

On December 8, 1977, Rosalyn Yalow became the first American-born and American-trained woman to receive a Nobel Prize in science when she accepted

The Empire State Building offered a special tribute to the 110th anniversary of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), whe

Grace Paley, author, feminist and “somewhat combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist,” was born on December 11, 1922 in the Bronx.

On November 22, 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated in City Hall by a former city supervisor, Dan White.

A group of Jewish women in Charleston, South Carolina deplored the death of British author Grace Aguilar as a "national calamity."

On November 3, 1992, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were elected to the U.S.

After over 20 years in elected public life, Linda Lingle was elected as Hawaii's first female and first Jewish governor on November 5, 2002.

In her autobiography, Madeleine Kunin acknowledges that her background may not have predestined her to become governor of Vermont.

On November 8, 1988, Nita M. Lowey was elected to Congress.

Jessie Sampter was an influential Zionist educator, a poet, and a Zionist pioneer. She died at Kibbutz Givat Brenner on November 11, 1938.

Caroline Klein Simon, a pioneering attorney, communal worker, and state official, was born on November 12, 1900.

Dancer and choreographer Anna Sokolow debuted on Broadway on November 14, 1937.

The National Council of Jewish Women held its first national convention at Tuxedo Hall in New York City between November 15 and

After over two decades of building a reputation as a passionate and generous member of the Jewish community through her activism and volunteer work, Baltimorean Shoshana Cardin was elected as the first woman president of the Council of Jewish Federations on November 15, 1984.

Alma Gluck first appeared on stage with the Metropolitan Opera on November 19, 1909 in the role of Sophie in Massenet's Werther.