April 16, 2025 Grow Session: In Miriam’s Footsteps-Jewish Women’s Leadership and the Pursuit of Justice

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For our April 2025 program in Hebrew College Adult Learning’s free, monthly GROW series, we examine Jewish women’s leadership with Judith Rosenbaum, PhD, CEO of Hebrew College shared campus partner Jewish Women’s Archive.

We hope you will spend an hour with us for this and future programs in our series, to gather, reflect, observe, and wrestle with topics that will deepen your Jewish learning.

In Miriam’s Footsteps: Jewish Women’s Leadership and the Pursuit of Justice

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 12-1 PM EST/9-10 AM PST | Zoom
Program: In Miriam’s Footsteps: Jewish Women’s Leadership and the Pursuit of Justice
Instructor: Judith Rosenbaum
Cost: FREE

In the spirit of celebrating Miriam during this Passover season, this class will consider the Jewish women who have followed in her footsteps as spiritual leaders, visionaries, and voices for justice. We will explore models for Jewish women’s activism, leadership, and creativity in different historical contexts. What can we learn from these foremothers and what is the legacy we inherit from them? How does taking their stories into account expand our understanding of individual and collective liberation?

Instructor

Judith Rosenbaum is CEO of the Jewish Women’s Archive, a pioneering digital archive that documents Jewish women’s stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change. Judith earned a PhD in American Studies from Brown University, with a focus on women, gender, and social movements. As a Fulbright Fellow, she studied women’s collective communities in Israel. An educator, historian, and writer, she teaches, lectures, and publishes widely on Jewish studies and women’s studies.

Save the date

Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | 12-1 PM EST/9-10 AM PST | Zoom
Program: TBD
Instructor: Rabbi Adam Lavitt