Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Jewish women have played central roles in Jewish life since the early days of the Torah (Jewish Bible). This presentation will focus on four well-known Jewish women whose efforts have shaped Jewish, American and Israeli history. These women include Miriam, Moses’ sister, who saved her younger brother from certain death in Egypt, Golda Meir, who was instrumental in the establishment of the State of Israel and would later became the only woman to serve as Israel’s prime minister, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first (and only) Jewish woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and Henrietta Szold, who founded Hadassah. These Jewish women’s legacies continue to inspire generations by their example.