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Judith Kaplan became the first American bat mitzvah in 1922. The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony has become more popular for girls ever since.
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which in 2022 begins on the evening of Dec. 18, focuses on the story of the male Maccabees. But women are also heroes in histories from that era, including Judith and Hannah.
A Jewish studies scholar discusses the societal changes that women are leading in ultra-Orthodox communities.
While male and female prisoners at Auschwitz faced the same ultimate fate – torture, forced labor and near-certain death – women sometimes reacted differently to Nazi captivity.
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Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Director, the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar-Ilan University
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PhD Candidate in Gender & Sexuality Studies and Hebrew & Jewish Studies, UCL
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Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University
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Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University
