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News Gender Equality Elusive in Salary Survey
The Forward’s third annual survey of 76 national Jewish organizations paints a picture of communal stagnation in gender equality, as the number of women in leadership roles remains at the same low level, and the gap between male and female salaries has grown even larger. Despite the dismal economy, half of the leaders in the…
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News Salaries of U.S. Jewish Communal Leaders
The Forward’s annual salary survey covered 76 national Jewish organizations. The following is a searchable chart of the organizations and their leaders. Men are indicated in black, women in blue. Individual salaries and organizational expenses are indicated in dollars. Benefits are not included.
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Israel News Shelly Yachimovich Started Protesting at Early Age
At 15, Shelly Yachimovich was expelled from school for hanging up posters denouncing the principal’s style of leadership. As the newly elected head of Israel’s Labor Party, it’s now her leadership style that is under scrutiny — and she’s up against far more than posters. Her campaign for the party primary September 21 was marred…
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Opinion Shelly Yachimovich’s Election Marks New Era in Israeli Politics
With the election of Shelly Yachimovich to head Israel’s Labor Party, two major political parties are led by women for the first time in the country’s history. This is an encouraging development not only because it helps advance gender fairness in Israeli society, but also because it potentially signals a new era for Israeli politics,…
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Opinion A Respectful Disagreement With Jill Abramson
First, I’ll note the obvious: For women like myself, who have been in journalism long enough to remember it as a defiantly male profession, the ascension of a smart, qualified, tough and interesting woman to the helm of The New York Times is just awesome. And that Jill Abramson is Jewish makes it all a…
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Life HERvotes Launches To Preserve Women’s Rights
It’s ironic that in the very same period that the East Coast is experiencing a hurricane and a rare strong earthquake, we commemorate two “earth shaking” historic events. On August 18, 1920, women won a years-long fight for suffrage with ratification of the 19th Amendment; and on August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of Americans…
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Life Trio of Jewish Women Religious Leaders
The Huffington Post is out with its list of the top 10 women religious leaders, and one is a rabbi, another a Jewish activist and a third is a spiritual guru with Jewish roots. Coming in at No. 9 is Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum who leads the only LGBT synagogue in Manhattan, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah…
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The Schmooze Female IDF Soldiers Suffer More Stress Fractures
A study of women soldiers in Israel has found that for the IDF to attract more women to combat roles, it is going to have to make changes to more than just the design of military gear. The IDF thought that it had eliminated the problem of women soldiers getting stress fractures by designing a…
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