Sexual violence awareness workshop is for high schoolers
“Unless we are educated, everybody in this room is a potential victim, a potential perpetrator and a potential bystander.”
“Unless we are educated, everybody in this room is a potential victim, a potential perpetrator and a potential bystander.”
The fourth annual Jewish Women’s Conference of Southern California, held March 1 at UCLA’s Covel Commons, proved a fertile testing ground for women’s issues today, drawing nearly 200 women of all ages and religious backgrounds to a daylong female-centric confab.
On any given weekday, Bob Klausner can be found at a number of regional thrift stores looking at the most interesting and salable art, overlooked designer handbags and finest of silver.
While many devout Jews across the United States and elsewhere observed the pre-Purim tradition of fasting on Thursday, March 13, more than 200 Jewish women and men are going without food today for a different cause: immigration reform.
Three Jewish groups praised the U.S. Senate\’s reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and urged the House of Representatives to follow suit.
The Obama administration simplified its definition of religious groups that would be exempt from allowing staffers contraceptive coverage.
In the wake of the shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., Jewish groups are looking to build alliances and back legislation to strengthen gun control laws.
With public acceptance of same-sex marriage growing, liberal Jewish groups are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down the Defense of Marriage Act that they have long opposed.
The talk at the second annual Jewish Women’s Conference of Southern California focused not so much on the Jewish part, as on the women’s part. Some 300 women (and one man — a devoted husband, perhaps?) filled the ballroom of UCLA’s Covel Commons on Nov. 11 for a series of sessions on activism, feminism today, women’s health, the effects of the recession on women, plus one session on Israeli women and another on rabbinical interpretations of women’s equality within Judaism.
\”The US Supreme Court\’s decision to uphold the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a huge victory for women and families across the country.