[Jewish] Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations

[Lexi Light]

This is a conference going on at Barnard motzi shabbos on the 29th and 
all day on the 30th.  Registration was closed this past friday, but 
with a phone call, we may be able to get a few of us on the list.  
There are some amazing names speaking!  It is the day after hamp 
halloween, but if fellow JSUers wanted to go down for it, we could load 
a car midday on saturday and attend.  I even can offer a place to stay 
in the city!
Let me know if you're interested!

Program

Saturday, 29 October

JEWISH WOMEN & THE AMERICAN MAINSTREAM

Opening Night Panel Discussion, 8:00 PM

We begin this remarkable conference with an evening plenary aimed at 
understanding Jewish women's contributions to the American mainstream. 
After thirty years of vibrant, vigorous feminist activism, we'll 
explore the advances Jewish women have made both within their own 
Jewish communities and as part of larger struggles for social justice 
and equality. Temple University Professor Laura Levitt leads a 
discussion with some of today's most thoughtful and distinctive voices 
in Jewish activism, culture, politics and scholarship. It's a rare 
opportunity to consider the directions in which Jewish feminism has 
gone over the last three decades, the nature of the cross-roads at 
which we now stand, and where, in the future, we might yet go.

PARTICIPANTS:

*	Katya Gibel Azoulay, author of Black, Jewish & Interracial: It's Not 
the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of 
Identity
*	Liz Holtzman, former Congresswoman from Brooklyn
*	Lisa Jervis, Editor, Bitch magazine
*	Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms. magazine; author of 
Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America
*	Nancy Schwartzman, filmmaker, Between Us; founder, 
NYC-safestreets.org; and Creative Director, Heeb magazine

MODERATOR:

*	Laura Levitt, Associate Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, 
Temple University

Sunday, 30 October

CHANGING JEWISH COMMUNITIES

Panel 1, 10:00 - 11:30 AM

Reflecting a wealth of diversity, Jewish communities are built around 
distinct national, racial and ethnic identifications, differing sexual 
desires and family structures, divergent political and religious 
ideologies. This panel will examine how these boundaries have changed 
over time, and how feminists have contributed to these changes. By 
frankly discussing how various Jewish communities embrace (or insist on 
resisting) change, we'll envision new forms of community that promise 
Jewish women fuller lives in both the public and private spheres.

PARTICIPANTS:

*	Shifra Bronznick, Founding President, Advancing Women Professions and 
the Jewish Community
*	Sally Gottesman, Chair, Moving Traditions
*	Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, activist, writer and founder of Jews for 
Racial and Economic Justice
*	Khadijah Miller, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, 
Norfolk State
*	Gina Nahai, author, Cry of the Peacock and Moonlight on the Avenue of 
Faith

MODERATOR:

*	Paula Hyman, Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale 
University

CHANGING JUDAISM

Panel 2, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

No discussion of Jewish community building would be complete without 
careful consideration of the ways in which denominational lines help to 
order and organize culture, political and religious life. In this 
panel, feminists activists committed to fostering change in religious 
contexts speak with distinguished scholars whose work produces the 
historical and conceptual work necessary for understanding, 
strategizing and effecting such change.

PARTICIPANTS:

*	Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, Regional Director, PA Council, Union for 
Reform Judaism
*	Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, 
Jewish Theological Seminary
*	Norma Joseph, Associate Professor of Religion, Concordia University
*	Lori Lefkovitz, Director of Kolot, Center for Jewish Women's and 
Gender Studies
*	Danya Ruttenberg, author, Yentl's Revenge: Third Wave Jewish Feminism

MODERATOR:

*	Judith Plaskow, Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College

CHANGING CULTURE

Panel 3, 3:00 - 4:30 PM

Jewish feminists and queers have often provided the most insightful 
critiques of American and Jewish cultures. Their voices are 
particularly vibrant in contemporary art, literature and performance, 
where the possibilities of new communities are boldly imagined in 
alternative magazines, theaters and social spaces. In this panel, 
artists, activists and scholars examine not only the purpose and scope 
of these creative acts, but also their political implications.

PARTICIPANTS:

*	Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross, international lecturer and motivational 
speaker
*	Rachel Havrelock, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, University 
of Illinois at Chicago
*	Faith Jones, Bridges magazine
*	Irena Klepfisz, poet, translator and Adjunct Associate Professor of 
Women's Studies, Barnard College
*	Alisa Solomon, Director of the Arts Concentration, Columbia 
University Graduate School of Journalism

MODERATOR:

*	Naomi Scheman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota
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