How Are Jewish Organizations Celebrating #InternationalWomensDay?
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By Talya Zax March 8, 2017
This International Women’s Day marks the hundredth anniversary of one of the day’s most significant early iterations, the 1917 Russian women’s strike for “Bread and Peace,” which helped initiate the Russian Revolution. Four days after the strike, Czar Nicholas II abdicated, and the provisional government established in his place granted Russian women the right to vote.
This year, International Women’s Day has attracted attention, fittingly, over the organization of a women’s strike to coincide with the holiday. For A Day Without a Woman, partially arranged by the organizers behind the January 21 Women’s March, women and their allies across the world are refraining from paid and un-paid work, either not shopping or shopping only at local businesses, and wearing red as a gesture of solidarity. Here’s what Jewish organizations across the country have done to celebrate the holiday and recognize the strike.
The National Council of Jewish Women rallied against President Trump’s global gag rule:
Beautiful day to protest the #TrumpGlobalGag! #NoAbortionBan #IWD2017 pic.twitter.com/tqaedzOa9w
— NCJW (@NCJW) March 8, 2017
The Anti-Defamation League shared resources for teaching children about women’s history and issues:
We’re celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth & #InternationalWomensDay! Check out our many different resources here: https://t.co/xYbK9Pn3Rx pic.twitter.com/HbHEgymONk
— ADL (@ADL_National) March 8, 2017
IfNotNow honored Jewish women who dare to rebel:
This #InternationalWomensDay, we salute all of the badass women leading the #JewishResistance movement.
— IfNotNow (@IfNotNowOrg) March 8, 2017
Hillel kept it simple:
Here’s to all women. #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/6DlDFobQSa
— Hillel (@HillelIntl) March 8, 2017
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect joined a rally:
Today we’re participating in #InternationalWomensDay rallies. Our Alexandra Gellner holds a quote from Anne Frank’s diary. #BeBoldForChange pic.twitter.com/VZHGntdyNE
— AnneFrankCenter(US) (@AnneFrankCenter) March 8, 2017
And the American Jewish World Service stood with strikers in Washington, D.C.:
Our #GlobalJusticeFellows standing w/ women walking out of the Capitol during the #DayWithoutAWomanStrike today! #WomensRightsAreHumanRights pic.twitter.com/9FM2JteNmm
— AJWS (@ajws) March 8, 2017
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