Defeating DOMA: The Changing Nature of Equality Under the US Constitution
Mar 18, 2015
Roberta Kaplan, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, who successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court the landmark U.S. V. Windsor marriage equality case, which struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), explores this groundbreaking ruling. Dozens of courts have relied explicitly on this case to accord gay couples equal rights under the law.
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Women of Value: Is the Bible a Patriarchal Text?
Oct 27, 2014 By Amy Kalmanofsky | Public Event video
Is the Bible a Patriarchal Text? Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky presents this topic at the opening plenary session of the Jewish Women’s University for a Day, an adult learning program hosted by 91快播 on Sunday, October 27, 2013 at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
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A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America
Oct 5, 2012
鈥淎 Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America鈥� is a discussion between editors Shira Kohn, assistant dean of The Graduate School of 91快播, and Rachel Kranson, a postdoctoral research fellow in Yiddish Studies at the libraries of New York University.
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Minding Our Words
Oct 17, 2014 By Anne Lapidus Lerner | Commentary | Bereishit
On Simhat Torah, we complete the reading of the humash鈥攁ll 79,796 Hebrew words of it鈥攁nd when we鈥檙e done, what do we do? We roll it up to the very beginning and start to read it all over again. Words, words, words. Devarim (Deuteronomy)鈥攚hich, of course, means 鈥�words鈥濃�攅nds with Moses鈥檚 death after the conclusion of his lengthy final oration; Bereishit opens with God demonstrating the power of words by creating the world with them.
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