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Looking over this program for the annual Women’s Festival at Queens College in New York that I helped to plan in the early l970s brought back the rush of exhilaration that I experienced during that time, as a member of the Women’s Collective. Feminism was exploding, illuminating my life with new ideas.

Feminism gave women the power to change the world, and the world was changing for women.

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We ranged across an extraordinary terrain – from politics to culture to family life – and there was no territory that our feminist imaginations and visions could not discover, recover, or transform.

Jewish feminism was more complicated for me. I loved Network’s first National Conference of Jewish Women at the McAlpin Hotel in 1973, and I dedicated myself to moving these issues forward in the Jewish world.

But Jewish feminism always seemed more laborious and more constricting. And yet, at the same time, my commitment to Jewish feminism was a powerful calling that kept me returning again and again Shifra Bronznick – AWP SESU