Please report this (copy and paste) to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. You could suggest to the Wall Street Journal that businesses should stop doing business with companies in Northern California until this discrimination stops.
We do a lousy job teaching our kids about loving Judaism; mostly just the minimum to get through their B'nai Mitzvah. Religious schools in synagogues, get pushback from parents because it interferes with soccer or other after-school activities. Day Schools are very expensive and compete with elite private schools that have more local cachet. Most Jewish parents do consider a Jewish summer camp.
And we wonder why such a large percentage of our young kids are Anti-Zionist.
My Intro to Judaism Jewish students are often puzzled about how they never read Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel. And I, a secular Jew, cannot answer this question to my religious Jewish students. Why didn't they? Sarah Hurwitz has a great book that takes sterility out of Judaism. But she is not the only one, and you don't need to go to a more popularized way, though her Here All Along is a great introduction to get some people out of a stupor. When we are reading in class some passages from the best literature in the world, the Hebrew Bible, especially some psalms and certainly the Song of Songs, we feel amazement. But there is more to say.
It's amazing all of these (wonderful) women work inside of Jewish organizations (and this is in line with typical "woman's role" i.e. supportive.) Are you aware of Jewish women who do not work inside Jewish organizations? Have you forgotten about Dr. Ada Yonath (Nobel Prize in Chemistry) or the Hon. Golda Meir or Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg or Dr. Gertrude Elion (Nobel Prize in BioChemistry) or the Hon. Bella Abzug, or Betty Friedan or Janet Yellen or Sheryl Sandberg or Justice Elana Kagan or Susan Wojcicki, or Safra Catz or Ruth Porat or Irene Rosenfeld or Bonnie Hammer or Diane von Furstenberg, etc. etc. Are you sure you read/watch then news? I appreciate your column but it is extremely male-oriented.
Follow-up to my comment above. We need to teach our kids about the many amazing women from the past and the cool ones from today. You list heroes from our generation. That's great, but how about the women on the front lines of the IDF who are leading tank divisions, or the Israeli singer, Eden Golan, chosen for Eurovision? In my area of the country, none of your examples would be taught in a public school; maybe RBG who transcends being Jewish. The schools here are too busy taking days off to protest for a ceasefire and boycotting local "Zionist" businesses. We have to do this education at home these days...
There have been many online Zooms on the subject. Problem is that only pro-Israel folks tend to attend. "Preaching to the Choir". We don't have a "Jewish History Month"... public schools teach about the Holocaust and then turn genocide and apartheid against us. Kids wearing kufiyahs because its cool.
If only... the Pro-Israeli Jewish community, JCRC and ADL here is spending our time fighting every school board and city council to either pass a fairly worded "ceasefire" resolution and to have teachers in K-5 stop teaching a biased Pro-Palestinian narrative. We fought the ethnic studies curriculum at the state level to recognize Jews as a minority, the counties and individual school boards don't have to follow the state guidelines. The President of the County Board of Education in my County protested VP Harris's recent visit with another Board member calling for "Ceasefire" and "Free Palestine". Up in Oakland, Jewish parents are pulling their kids out of a particular elementary school with an awful teacher, she wrote a blog calling them "McCarthyites" for not wanting to subject their kids to verbal abuse.
A Jewish History Month, Day or Hour isn't going to happen in Northern California any time soon.
Historically, Judaism has been a male-oriented religion. Women and women's issues were an afterthought at best. Why do you think so many women embraced Christianity when it was founded?
Many of the columns here take me back to that very very male-oriented religion. Try to make at least some of your columns oriented towards women's issues and lifestyles. After all, if you want Jewish brides, the women need to see opportunity for them in Judaism, and not just a prescribed role.
Please report this (copy and paste) to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. You could suggest to the Wall Street Journal that businesses should stop doing business with companies in Northern California until this discrimination stops.
We do a lousy job teaching our kids about loving Judaism; mostly just the minimum to get through their B'nai Mitzvah. Religious schools in synagogues, get pushback from parents because it interferes with soccer or other after-school activities. Day Schools are very expensive and compete with elite private schools that have more local cachet. Most Jewish parents do consider a Jewish summer camp.
And we wonder why such a large percentage of our young kids are Anti-Zionist.
My Intro to Judaism Jewish students are often puzzled about how they never read Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel. And I, a secular Jew, cannot answer this question to my religious Jewish students. Why didn't they? Sarah Hurwitz has a great book that takes sterility out of Judaism. But she is not the only one, and you don't need to go to a more popularized way, though her Here All Along is a great introduction to get some people out of a stupor. When we are reading in class some passages from the best literature in the world, the Hebrew Bible, especially some psalms and certainly the Song of Songs, we feel amazement. But there is more to say.
It's amazing all of these (wonderful) women work inside of Jewish organizations (and this is in line with typical "woman's role" i.e. supportive.) Are you aware of Jewish women who do not work inside Jewish organizations? Have you forgotten about Dr. Ada Yonath (Nobel Prize in Chemistry) or the Hon. Golda Meir or Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg or Dr. Gertrude Elion (Nobel Prize in BioChemistry) or the Hon. Bella Abzug, or Betty Friedan or Janet Yellen or Sheryl Sandberg or Justice Elana Kagan or Susan Wojcicki, or Safra Catz or Ruth Porat or Irene Rosenfeld or Bonnie Hammer or Diane von Furstenberg, etc. etc. Are you sure you read/watch then news? I appreciate your column but it is extremely male-oriented.
Follow-up to my comment above. We need to teach our kids about the many amazing women from the past and the cool ones from today. You list heroes from our generation. That's great, but how about the women on the front lines of the IDF who are leading tank divisions, or the Israeli singer, Eden Golan, chosen for Eurovision? In my area of the country, none of your examples would be taught in a public school; maybe RBG who transcends being Jewish. The schools here are too busy taking days off to protest for a ceasefire and boycotting local "Zionist" businesses. We have to do this education at home these days...
Or organize public seminars on Israel's contributions to humanity and on famous Israeli and American women.
There have been many online Zooms on the subject. Problem is that only pro-Israel folks tend to attend. "Preaching to the Choir". We don't have a "Jewish History Month"... public schools teach about the Holocaust and then turn genocide and apartheid against us. Kids wearing kufiyahs because its cool.
Well, there's a Black History Month. How about petitioning your state for a Jewish History Month? We can outline a curriculum. nyclaire@aol.com
If only... the Pro-Israeli Jewish community, JCRC and ADL here is spending our time fighting every school board and city council to either pass a fairly worded "ceasefire" resolution and to have teachers in K-5 stop teaching a biased Pro-Palestinian narrative. We fought the ethnic studies curriculum at the state level to recognize Jews as a minority, the counties and individual school boards don't have to follow the state guidelines. The President of the County Board of Education in my County protested VP Harris's recent visit with another Board member calling for "Ceasefire" and "Free Palestine". Up in Oakland, Jewish parents are pulling their kids out of a particular elementary school with an awful teacher, she wrote a blog calling them "McCarthyites" for not wanting to subject their kids to verbal abuse.
A Jewish History Month, Day or Hour isn't going to happen in Northern California any time soon.
https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning/subjects/social-studies/jewish-american-heritage-month
The above link provides what is available in New York State for Jewish American Heritage Month which is May.
Thank you for your feedback.
Historically, Judaism has been a male-oriented religion. Women and women's issues were an afterthought at best. Why do you think so many women embraced Christianity when it was founded?
Many of the columns here take me back to that very very male-oriented religion. Try to make at least some of your columns oriented towards women's issues and lifestyles. After all, if you want Jewish brides, the women need to see opportunity for them in Judaism, and not just a prescribed role.
We published this over a year ago: https://www.futureofjewish.com/p/50-of-our-favorite-jewish-women-right