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Health Activism, American Feminist Jewish Women's …

WEBFrom 1969 to 1975, the militant women’s health movement exploded with such velocity that nearly two thousand self-help women’s medical projects were scattered across the United States, according to a …

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Revisiting Medical History: The Women's Health …

WEBWhen the COVID-19 outbreak became a pandemic in March 2020, historians and journalists alike drew comparisons between the influenza pandemic of …

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Birth Control Movement in the United States: 1912-1960

WEBThe dedicated commitment of great numbers of American Jewish women to their country’s long and controversial crusade to legalize birth control had its origins in …

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Women's Health in the Ghettos of Eastern Europe

WEBWomen in the ghettos of Eastern Europe often outnumbered men, but within ghetto populations, women generally had lower mortality rates than men, perhaps due to their …

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Simone Veil Jewish Women's Archive

WEBSimone Veil. Holocaust survivor Simone Veil was a pioneer in the French government and the European Union. As Minister of Health, she presented and …

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Phyllis Greenberger Jewish Women's Archive

WEBPhyllis Greenberger is President and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research, a national non-profit organization founded in 1990 to improve the health of women …

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Nursing as a Female Profession in Palestine (1918-1948)

WEBThe first nursing school in Palestine, the Hadassah School of Nursing, was founded in 1918. It hoped to revolutionize nursing education in the Yishuv by following the British and …

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Margaret Gene Arnstein Jewish Women's Archive

WEBMargaret Gene Arnstein was a principal architect of the American nursing profession. Renowned for her work in public health, Arnstein also advanced nursing education and …

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Naomi Deutsch Jewish Women's Archive

WEBA leader in the field of public health nursing, Naomi Deutsch spearheaded health and sanitation campaigns in the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean. In …

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Bat Sheva Marcus Jewish Women's Archive

WEBDr. Bat Sheva Marcus LCSW, MPH, PhD is cofounder and executive director of Maze Women's Sexual Health, the largest independent women's sexual health …

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Barbara Seaman Jewish Women's Archive

WEBJournalist, activist, and co-founder the National Women’s Health Network, Barbara Seaman. In 1960, Barbara Seaman introduced a new style of health reporting that …

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Esther Rome Jewish Women's Archive

WEBA co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Esther Rome educated women about their health and brought awareness to the dangers of products ranging from tampons to breast …

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American Birth Control Movement Jewish Women's Archive

WEBThe weekly Women’s Page of the Jewish Daily Forward, or Forverts, provided a forum for education and debate about birth control.The Forward had a daily …

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Lillian D. Wald Jewish Women's Archive

WEBLillian D. Wald was born on March 10, 1867, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter and third of four children of Max D. Wald and Minnie Schwarz Wald. The Walds and …

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Abortion: Halakhic Perspectives Jewish Women's Archive

WEBWhile halakhic discussions about abortion largely excluded the arguments and perspectives of women, in general poskim (decisors) determined that a woman’s life …

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Phyllis Greenberger Jewish Women's Archive

WEBPhyllis Greenberger is President and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research, a national non-profit organization founded in 1990 to improve the …

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Laurie Schwab Zabin Jewish Women's Archive

WEBAfter their divorce, Laurie married James Zabin in 1963. An accomplished and focused visionary, she obtained her Ph.D. in Population Dynamics from Hopkins in 1979 and …

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Marie Jahoda Jewish Women's Archive

WEBMarie Jahoda was a major figure in social psychology, known for her work on the effects of unemployment on emotional well-being, as well as the social impact of McCarthy-era …

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Holocaust Survivors: Rescue and Resettlement in the United States

WEBIn Brief. Immediately after the Holocaust, the American Jewish community shouldered the task of assisting in the resettlement of survivors who arrived in the …

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Lillian Wald Jewish Women's Archive

WEBLillian Wald. Courtesy of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Lillian D. Wald was a practical idealist who worked to create a more just society. Her goal was to ensure that …

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Selma Fraiberg Jewish Women's Archive

WEBSelma Fraiberg’s insightful work in infant psychology led to new ways to treat at-risk and “failure to thrive” infants and culminated in her classic book on parenting, The …

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Judith Heumann leads the 504 Sit-in in San Francisco

WEBJudith Heumann. Public Domain. by Aviva Nemeth. On April 5, 1977, Judith Heumann led demonstrators into the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco, …

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