Women’s Roundtable: Abortion in Israel; Representing Women

Hand in Hand: Gabrielle Giffords, center, who resigned from Congress on January 25 to focus on her recovery, walks with her friend Rep. Debbie Wassserman Schultz. Image by Getty Images
The state of abortion in Israel and the ways in which Jewish women are shaping American politics are the topics of this edition of the Women’s Roundtable podcast. Lilith magazine editor Susan Weidman Schneider, Lilith assistant editor Sonia Isard and Forward news fellow Naomi Zeveloff join Sisterhood editor Gabrielle Birkner for the discussion. Then Forward editor Jane Eisner explains her campaign to combat the under-representation of women in American Jewish life. The panelists also take on panelists take on the topic of “what Jewish feminism means to me.”
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