The 12th Annual Spring Lecture, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte's Women's Division, is set for Thursday, April 22 in the Sandra and Leon Levine Social Hall at Temple Israel. Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein, authors of Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited, are this year's guest speakers. Look for your invitation in your mailbox soon! Click here to read more

NEW YORK (JTA) -- The last time the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance organized a conference at Columbia University, in 2007, Israeli activist Tova Hartman electrified a crowd of several hundred with her call to "stop kvetching" and start acting until the plight of "chained women," or agunot, was resolved.

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