A poem by Lea Goldberg that speaks to the joy, grief, and hope of this moment.

Jewish lesbian tennis player Helen Hull Jacobs played her way into the International Tennis Hall of Fame ♥️ Winner of numerous championship victories, Jacobs was a force to be reckoned with on the tennis court in the 1920s-30s. Read more in our new encyclopedia entry: buff.ly/gk7hYi4

"I knew that my dream would be to write about sex. I could be someone to help answer those questions that my younger self was afraid to ask, and show women that there’s nothing shameful about being sexual." JWA sat down with Mia Sherin to discuss embracing her sexuality: buff.ly/MjgwQKb

Two years after October 7, JWA's podcast speaks with family members of Vivian Silver and Hayim Katsman, Israeli peace activists who were murdered that day. Hayim’s mother Hannah Wacholder Katsman and Vivian’s son Yonatan Zeigen share how they are carrying on their legacies. Listen: buff.ly/iw5clZK

Sukkot begins tonight 🌿✨ A festival of harvest and memory, marking the Israelites’ desert wanderings and the season’s abundance. 📷 The Benguiat family, late nineteenth century Smyrna (now Izmir), Ottoman Empire, late 19th century. The Jewish Museum.

At the height of WWII, Elaine Buchman Yoneda became the only Jewish woman on record to be imprisoned in an American concentration camp. In our new podcast episode, tracyslater.bsky.social describes how anti-immigrant policies tore families apart and how those forces are reemerging: buff.ly/zMgBVOI

We are links in a long chain of tradition 💙 You’re looking at a woman praying on Yom Kippur in 1496 Italy — a detail from Maraviglia’s Prayer Book, scribed by Yo’el ben Shim’on Feibush. Yom Kippur begins at sundown tonight. G'mar chatima tovah.

"I don’t see 'fantasy' as an escape from reality, but as a way into a deeper experience of what is most real." L.A.-based painter Hannah Lupton Reinhard explores Jewish femininity through vibrant colors studded with Swarovski crystals: buff.ly/2LQxtoT

Jewish New Year and Shabbat card, 1899. Two men are sitting and reading from a book, a woman is standing with a covered plate in her hand and a boy is beside her. At the bottom of the postcard is an inscription: Shabbat night kiddush, for a new year. Shabbat shalom!

JWA's Online History Course "Belles and Butches: Jewish Women in the American South" continues Sep 25 at 8 PM. Join us w/ Marcie Cohen Ferris for The Edible Jewish South. Explore food as language and cuisine shaped by privilege and deprivation. Register: buff.ly/wczFfcJ

Yemenite Jews observing Tashlich in Tel Aviv, 1926. Tashlich is a symbolic ritual of the High Holidays. The Hebrew word means “to cast off.” By a body of water, people release crumbs or small pieces of bread as a gesture of letting go, renewal, and beginning the year unburdened. 📷 Shimon Korbman

This illustation appeared on the cover of suffrage activist Selina Solomons’ 1912 book "How We Won the Vote in California." In 5786, may we carry forward the commitment of Solomons and other Jewish women to protecting democracy and bringing a more just world into being. Shana tova! ⭐

"The trees are more than landscaping. They are my neighbors, my deep-rooted friends. But our neighborhood, like our climate, is changing." On JWA's blog, Lisa Trank considers environmentalism and Rosh Hashanah:

#TheaterBSKY check out this review from @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social and then see this extraordinary play!!

"Girls who wince at locker room talk risk exclusion." Read JWA's current Rising Voices Fellow Naomi Beinart's piece in The Guardian:

"In this play, men are a non-entity—a taste of their own medicine with regard to the way matriarchs are sidelined in the Torah." A TheaterLab through Sep 28, The Matriarchs imagines a matriarchal Judaism:

JWA's Online History Course ✨ Belles and Butches: Jewish Women in the American South ✨ continues on tomorrow, Sep 18, at 8 PM ET! Register at buff.ly/eZtuWz7. Join us with Rachel Gelfand for "Queer, Jewish, Southern," examining different generations of queer experiences in the South.

From 1929-1950s, Molly Goldberg was America’s favorite Jewish mother. Her character was written and embodied by Gertrude Berg, the first female showrunner. In our podcast ep, Emily Nussbaum talks about the history and how the show resonates today: buff.ly/mt82Wpn

Rosika Schwimmer was one of Hungary’s leading voices for women’s rights, organizing women workers, birth control, and campaigning against child labor. Her vision for equality and peace made her a force of nature, but drew intense antisemitic and antifeminist backlash: buff.ly/xL8H7IE

There's only been one Jewish Miss America in history, and her name was Bess Myerson. Just months after the revelations of the Holocaust, Myerson was crowned Miss America on September 8, 1945. Her victory was symbolic of the US post-war vitality of the American Jewish community: buff.ly/kzlky1e

"As a Canadian and American Jew, I have straddled Lake Ontario my whole life. Born in Montreal, I was raised, educated, and employed equally in both countries. What is the impact of having both identities in this fraught political moment?"

JWA's Online History Course ✨ Belles and Butches: Jewish Women in the American South ✨ continues Thursday, Sep 11, at 8! Join us with Rachel Cockerell for "The Galveston Movement and Its Legacy" exploring the legacies of women in the Galveston Movement and their descendants. jwa.org/events

Berta Singerman, born this week in history in in 1901, was an Argentine actress and poetry reciter who captivated audiences across the Ibero-American world. A child prodigy, she performed in Yiddish and Spanish, later was celebrated as the first professional Spanish poetry reciter: buff.ly/dCf7TnJ

Enjoy this selection of powerful works from Mariana Yampolsky, an artist whose vision and social commitment made her one of the most important figures in 20th-century Mexico. Born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1925, Yampolsky left behind a legacy of art rooted in community and creativity: buff.ly/Ss7VVTS

JWA sat down with Cindy Rowe, the CEO of the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action to discuss the organization and its work in our current political moment: buff.ly/sApYjbY

JWA's Online History Course "Belles and Butches: Jewish Women in the American South" begins this Thursday, Sep 4. at 8 PM ET! ✨ Join us with Shari Rabin for the first topic: Jewish Women in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Register here: buff.ly/wczFfcJ

This Labor Day, learn about activist Gertrude Weil, who helped establish the North Carolina League of Women Voters and lobbied for reforms to protect women laborers in factories. Through decades of activism, she showed how local political action could spark real transformation: buff.ly/3x1Zzzt

"Adolescence, when it happened, was a shock. Suddenly I was inescapably confined by gender—I rejected this tacitly and also violently." Louise Glück was named poet laureate of the US #ThisWeekInHistory in 2003. buff.ly/NtwslBt

Selina Solomons was an American suffrage activist and author who organized and fought for votes for women in California. Solomons published "How We Won the Vote in California," a collection of the state’s women’s rights efforts, in 1912. Read more in our new encyclopedia article: buff.ly/kdHETei

In São Paulo in 1983, Rosely Roth got up on a table and protested homophobia. Ferro’s Bar denied entrance and prohibited lesbian zine ChanacomChana. Roth dared to challenge this homophobia—and won. The owners backed down, and this victory is Lesbian Visibility Day in Brazil: buff.ly/aJEJarr

Judith Resnik became the first Jewish American astronaut, and second woman, to be in space #ThisWeekInHistory in 1984. Resnik operated experiments in crystal growth and photography using IMAX. By the end of the flight, Resnik had logged nearly 145 hours in space. Read more: buff.ly/2KcbsBe

Israeli poet Dahlia Ravikovitch was a significant figure in modern Hebrew literature and poetry. Best known for feminist poetry and political involvement, her success in the male-dominated field of Hebrew poetry made work by women more common. She died #ThisWeekInHistory in 2005. buff.ly/LPUZP7K

The atrocities of the Holocaust shaped psychotherapist and educator Erika Landau’s worldview. She transformed survivors' guilt into a creative and active form. Read more about the life and work of Erika Landau in our new encyclopedia entry: buff.ly/0ATL6Ug

Haydée Chikly Tamzali was a Tunisian-Jewish actress and filmmaker who played an essential role in the development of Arabic and African cinema. She was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1906. Her father directed her in "Zohra" (1922), considered the first fiction film made in Tunisia: buff.ly/iAM62qD

"I found queer radical Jewish community that filled a place I didn’t know was empty. Being Jewish means engaging in my ancestors' spirituality and tradition." JWA sat down with Sian Shine, a queer tattoo artist from London, to learn how they integrate Judaism into their work: buff.ly/ErSsKjk

he epitome of beauty and brains. #ThisWeekInHistory in 1942, actress Hedy Lamarr received a patent with composer George Antheil for a communication system designed to make radio-guided torpedoes harder to detect. Their invention would eventually become the basis for WiFi. buff.ly/2lTak57

Depiction of Jewish women in Türkiye, 16th century. Illustrations by Nikos Stavroulakis. Learn more in our "Turkey: Ottoman and Post Ottoman" encyclopedia article: buff.ly/ge4mnBV 📷 Jewish Museum of Greece Research Center.

In 1926, a article titled "Why She Feels Better in Men's Clothes" was published about the painter Gluck, who was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1895. The artist earned critical acclaim in England during the 1920s and 1930s for an individualist style and eclectic subject matter: buff.ly/GU1jlnU

Tu B’Av began as matchmaking, but it holds radical potential beyond romance. From a feminist lens, Tu B’Av invites us to reclaim love as something we define for ourselves. It’s a celebration of joy and the power of community. Begins tonight! buff.ly/2xFZRzv

 Join JWA's upcoming Online History Course Belles and Butches: Jewish Women in the American South! Discover the roles Jewish women played in the Civil War and Reconstruction; the experience of lesbian and queer Jews; and how Southern Jewish food was shaped by women’s experiences: buff.ly/1yQGsBe

Annabelle Gamson sparked interest in American modern dance in the 70s, performing choreographer Isadora Duncan’s work with depth. Starting this chapter in her 40s, Gamson defied a youth-obsessed dance world, her silver mane a celebration of strength. She was born #OnThisDay in 1928 buff.ly/zdMxwra

In honor of Old Hollywood star Sylvia Sidney’s birthday week, here's a swoon-worthy collection of her iconic 1930's fashion moments. Iconic. buff.ly/lMHPOEL

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in to the US Supreme Court #ThisWeekInHistory in 1993, she became the second woman - and the first Jewish woman - to do so. buff.ly/wxU31K1

While our podcast is on summer hiatus, we're listening back to some of our favorite Can We Talk? episodes. This time, an episode from 2021 about Moroccan Israeli singer Zohra El Fassia. Listen here: buff.ly/DRYj3ZT

"The world of books is the world I know." In a profession historically dominated by men, Blanche W. Knopf became known as a respected publisher in her own right, making the firm she launched with her husband in 1915 one of the most respected in the world. buff.ly/nWfC0my

Cass Elliot brought charm and vocal muscle to a stormy and transitional period of American music history as a member of the Mamas and the Papas. She died #ThisWeekInHistory in 1974. Read more: buff.ly/FDj2M5r

How do Jewish women respond to and shape their traditions through text? Join JWA and our Twersky Fellow Danielle Kranjec on Aug 5 at 8 PM at Lehrhaus in Somerville, MA to explore the Torah of Jewish women's lived experiences in their own words. More info:

"Bella was born yelling" - and never stopped. #ThisWeekInHistory in 1920, Congresswoman Bella Abzug came into the world ready to raise her voice. A fierce leader in the women’s movement, she made sure women’s rights were always on the agenda. buff.ly/HK3xiXI

Rare photo of a young Amy Winehouse ❤️‍🩹 Amy Winehouse was an English neo-soul and jazz-influenced singer from an Ashkenazi Jewish background. A great talent, her drug use ended her short but brilliant career at age 27 #ThisWeekInHistory in 2011. buff.ly/ORZa3lB 📷 Amy Winehouse in the 1980's.

"In Jewish tradition, transformation isn’t linear, it’s recursive, always in dialogue with what came before. My work grows from this conceptual soil, rooted in values of memory, impermanence, offering, and return." 7 Questions For Artist Evie Metz: buff.ly/OsDm236