Meredith Jacobs is CEO of Jewish Women International. JWI is the leading Jewish organization working to end violence against women and girls. To learn more, go to www.jwi.org
Meredith Jacobs
By Meredith Jacobs
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Opinion Shirel Golan survived the Nova massacre but died by suicide. Online denial may be to blame
One year after Oct. 7, young women who survived face campaigns that deny sexual violence
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Opinion The women’s movement has a double standard when sexual violence happens to Jews
Sexual violence happened on Oct. 7. Why are the UN and other human rights groups ignoring it?
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Opinion Jewish women are on the frontlines of the fight for abortion rights. We can’t give up hope now
If the leaked SCOTUS ruling stands, in less than 60 days, women will become second-class citizens of this country. We must fight back, writes the CEO of Jewish Women International
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Opinion Jewish teen groups are rife with toxic sexual culture. It’s on us to fix that.
As someone long involved with Jewish youth groups, Shira Wolkenfeld’s recent “New Voices” investigation on the toxic sexual culture that exists within many of them was difficult to read. In the extensive article, Wolkenfeld documents incidents of groping during convention Shabbat dinners, over-sexualization, pressures to hookup and sexual assault. I struggled to reconcile this portrait…
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