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Support Board

Rabbi Dr. Rachel Adler, Hebrew Union College, Emerita, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Dr. Susan Aranoff, Pioneer of organized agunah advocacy, New York

 

Rabba Tamar El-Ad Appelbaum, Kehillat Zion, Jerusalem

 

Nitzan Caspi-Shiloni, Adv. Jerusalem; formerly attorney of the Center for Women’s Justice

 

Dr. Phyllis Chesler, Emerita Professor, Author, New York

 

Professor Rachel Elior, John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Mystical Thought, Emerita, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv

 

Dr. Jeffrey M. Green, translator from Hebrew, contributor, Posen Library of Jewish Civilization, Jerusalem

 

Dr. Judith Green, Institute for Archaeology of the Hebrew University and the Rothberg School for Overseas Students (Ret.), Jerusalem

 

Prof. Ronit Irshai, Chair, Gender Studies Program, Bar Ilan University, Research Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem

 

Hannah Katsman, Social Activist, Jerusalem


Danielle Kranjec, Associate Vice President, Jewish Education, Hillel International, Boston

 

Rabbi Daniel Landes, Director of the Pardes Institute (Ret.), Founder and Director of Yashrut rabbinical program, Jerusalem

 

Rabbi Sheldon Lewis, Palo Alto, CA.

 

Rivka Lubitch, Veteran advocate for women and authority on women in Israeli rabbinic courts (to’enet rabbanit); Founder, Dim’at Ha’ashukim project to end mimzur; Author and Researcher, Hartman Institute, Jerusalem

 

Dr. Keren McGinity, Boston

 

Dr. Joyce Rapapport, Jewish Studies Editor, Montreal

 

Dr. Lifsa Schachter, Jewish Educator, Jerusalem

 

Rabbi Leah Shakdiel, Yeruham

 

Marian Sofaer, Esq. Palo Alto, CA

 

Hon. Abraham Sofaer, Palo Alto, CA

 

Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber, Milan Roven Professor of Talmud, and President of the Ludwig and Erica Jesselson Institute for Advanced Torah Studies, Bar Ilan University, Emeritus; Israel Prize Laureate in Jewish Studies, Jerusalem

 

Ms. Chana Sperber, Jerusalem

 

Amy Sporer Schiff, Jewish Educator, San Jose, CA

 

Julie Sporer Krigel, Arts Educator; Past President of the Silicon Valley Jewish Federation, San Jose, CA

 

Ruth Sporer, Jewish Activist, San Jose, CA

 

Dr. Susan Weiss, Adv. Founder and Director, Center for Women’s Justice (Ret.), Jerusalem

Project Miriam
 

The material on this site derives heavily from Shulamit S. Magnus’ book, Jewish Marital Captivity: The Past, Present, and End of a Historic Abuse (New York University Press, 2025), and the extensive sources cited there. 

 

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