BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-343@fjmc.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250316T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250316T203000 DTSTAMP:20250225T120816Z URL:https://fjmc.org/events-2/mcginity/ SUMMARY:Dr. Keren McGinity: #Us Too: How Jewish\, Muslim\, and Christian Wo men Changed Our Communities DESCRIPTION:Scroll Down to Register\n\n\nSpecial Guest: Dr. Keren McGinity\ , author of\n#Us Too: How Jewish\, Muslim\, and Christian Women Changed Ou r Communities\nSunday\, March 16\, 2025\n7:30pm Eastern/4:30pm Pacific\nWh at is the relationship between faith and the #MeToo movement? In this Wome n’s History Month talk\, scholar-activist Keren McGinity will illuminat e the similarities and differences between women’s experiences speaking truth to create positive change. Dr. McGinity will share findings from he r new book\, now available in paper and via Open Access. At a time when wo men’s rights to bodily autonomy are being questioned\, male allies are m ore important than ever. This session is intended to help Jewish men refle ct on their own behaviors and be the true menschen of our Jewish values.\n \n\n\nDr. Keren R. McGinity serves as USCJ’s first Director of Intermarr iage Engagement and Inclusion. She is also a research associate at the Had assah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University\, where she taught America n Studies. Previously\, Dr. McGinity was the inaugural director of the Int erfaith Families Jewish Engagement graduate program at Hebrew College. Her pioneering books\, Still Jewish: A History of Women &\; Intermarriage in America (NYU Press 2009)\, a National Jewish Book Award Finalist\, and  Marrying Out: Jewish Men\, Intermarriage\, and Fatherhood (Indiana Univ ersity Press 2014)\, provided groundbreaking analyses about Jewish continu ity by focusing on gender and change over time. Dr. McGinity’s advice &a mp\; opinions have appeared in the Forward\, Lilith &\; Moment maga zines\, the New York Jewish Week\, RitualWell\, Sh’ma\, the Times of Israel &\; eJewishPhilanthropy. She earned her PhD in History from B rown University\, and was the Mandell L. Berman Postdoctoral Research Fell ow in Contemporary American Jewish Life at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. She is a 2018 Forward 50 honoree for her clarion call for a Jewish response to the #MeToo movement\, named on  Lilith magazine’s “Seven Powerful Jewish Feminist Moments of 2023” list and was a JewishBoston “Top Pick.” Her newest book is #UsToo: How Jewish\, Muslim\, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities (Routle dge\, 2023).” Dr. McGinity served as an Ombud on the Committee on Sexual Misconduct of the Association for Jewish Studies and as a Board Member of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. She currently s erves on the Academic Advisory Council of the Jewish Women’s Archive. Wh en not roughing it in the woods of Maine\, she lives in Brookline\, MA. He r daughter Shira is an alum of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston\, Gann Academy\, and the TAMID fellowship program in Israel. To le arn more about Dr. McGinity’s work\, please visit her professional websi te: Love &\; Tradition.\n\n[ninja_form id=4]\n\n\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:FJMC Webinars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR