Three past and current leaders of Jewish women's advocacy groups endorsed President Obama, citing their concerns about women's rights. Nancy Ratzan, the immediate past president of the National Council of Jewish Women; Barbara Dobkin, the founding chairwoman of the Jewish Women's Archive, the chairwoman of the American Jewish World Service board of trustees and a major donor to a number of causes; and Millie Sernovitz, the chairwoman of Jewish Family and Community Services of South Florida and a past president of …More

Planned Parenthood is in the news after the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Foundation announced it would no longer fund breast cancer testing for the organization. Many are decrying the Komen Foundation's move as political. For the American Jewish community, birth control has long been a contentious issue.  In 1923, seven years after Margaret Sanger and her sisters opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, a Bronx rabbi gave up his pulpit position so that Sanger could speak: "Rabbi Louis A. …More