When it comes to improving women’s lives and the lives of their families, the U.S. falls abysmally short. We laud mothers, but we are failing them.
Author: Rabbi Hara Person
Rabbi Hara Person is the Chief Strategy Officer of Central Conference of American Rabbis, serves as Publisher of CCAR Press, oversees the publication of the CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly and is the CCAR incoming Chief Executive. She was previously the former Editor-in-Chief of URJ Books and Music and Managing Editor of The Torah: A Women’s Commentary, which won the 2008 National Jewish Book Award Book of the Year. Her essays and poems have been published in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Women and Judaism and The Women’s Haftarah Commentary. Hara was ordained in 1998 from HUC-JIR, after graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College and receiving an MA in Fine Arts from New York University’s International Center of Photography.
The Injustice of Unequal Pay
Closing the wage gap is about more than just dollars and cents. It’s about asserting that women have just as much worth in our society as men.