In a variety of programs throughout the United States, Jewish women are stepping up to the dais to honor Judith Kaplan, the girl who set a sweeping change in motion in 1922
In the 1920s, the atmosphere around the inclusion of women in all forms of American life was changing. Judith Kaplan’s bat mitzvah took place just two years after the certification of the 19th amendment finally granted women the right to vote. And as the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism and SAJ, she was also in the right place at the right time.
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