https://www.carolebalin.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-05-16 https://www.carolebalin.com/author daily 0.75 2020-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589568089763-IBGFH9JV92L7E4FY02EX/9780814338698_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg Author - ‘To Tread on New Ground’: Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro Co-editor with Wendy I. Zierler, Wayne State University Press, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589568249032-CSX56CS02OXEZKO7CJP9/71zi2gUAc%2BL.jpg Author - Sisterhood: A Centennial History of the Women of Reform Judaism Co-editor with Dana Herman, Jonathan D. Sarna and Gary P. Zola, HUC Press, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589572309400-X4HXRCK8ZY79YM0GSYOU/book_451_big.gif Author - Behikansi atah [In my entering now; Anthology of Hebrew writings by Hava Shapiro with scholarly afterword] Co-editor with Wendy Zierler, Vashti Series for Women, Resling Press, Tel Aviv, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589568553573-B22FZ50AZLLBPVJ9M7UV/61nuzYQ0D9L.jpg Author - To Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers in Tsarist Russia HUC Press, 2000 (re-issued in paperback in 2003) https://www.carolebalin.com/speaker daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589574538715-OEQTWMSZISR5E7EYIM1E/CCAR-small-logo-with-Central-Conference-copy.jpg Speaker Israel Trip Leader, Central Conference of American Rabbis - “Art, Culture and Creativity: A Different Side of Israel” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589574373041-9WW7W7PU5NUT0GSSXTZE/3CCA2A682E0D36A6599AED5CC6F88ACD.jpg Speaker Biennial Shabbat Lunch Speaker, 2019 - “Can We Talk about Judaism and Gender? Equity in Reform Judaism” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589574727623-Y5UNUCYSY7FSMS4WT79R/WomenRJ-logo.jpg Speaker Presenter, National Fried Women’s Conference - “Single-Gender Organizations in Jewish Life” https://www.carolebalin.com/leader daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://www.carolebalin.com/batmitzvahproject daily 0.75 2022-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589656365367-B9C3SK1K5ZCFRNUU9DWJ/unnamed-1.png Bat Mitzvah Project - On March 18, 1922 — two years after women got the right to vote in the US — Judith Kaplan, the eldest daughter of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, became the first American girl to have a bat mitzvah ceremony. Judith Kaplan, Society for the Advancement of Judaism, New York, NY, 1922. At the party back at her house that night, they served little hot dogs, Judith’s favorite food at the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589562935213-R3HX6OOH5Q3DDIMQ28WZ/unnamed-1.jpg Bat Mitzvah Project - At synagogues, some of the earliest girls to have a bat mitzvah had twin brothers. Merrily and Ronald Auerbach, Temple Adath Jeshurun, Minneapolis, 1959 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589659000220-VU98224D5ZZS0GM9CGFP/unnamed-1.png Bat Mitzvah Project - In the 1930s, bat mitzvah sprang to life at summer camps, where informality reigned and girls were given freer rein in public worship than ever before. Bat Mitzvah at Cejwin Camps, Port Jervis, NY, c. 1935 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589562986174-7Y735VEUU3OI6AY65IO0/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Bat Mitzvah Project - Rabbis’ daughters — especially when there were no sons — were among the first to be invited up to the bimah to mark their bat mitzvah. Adena Greenberg with her father, Rabbi Sidney Greenberg, Temple Sinai, Dresher, PA, 1964 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589659402461-EGZAVBR1Y3N6WMMIXTFH/unnamed.jpg Bat Mitzvah Project - As girls ascended the bimah in ever increasing numbers, they not only changed Jewish worship, they expanded what the Jewish community looks like. Noa Fay with her parents, Temple Beth Zion, Brookline, MA, May 17, 2014 https://www.carolebalin.com/bio daily 0.75 2020-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e652e1e47582517c7c76ef1/1589566497645-W0IYLEPZIQGDFUGKD3ML/rabbi-carole-b-balin-phd_0.jpeg Bio - As a prolific writer and teacher, Rabbi Carole B. Balin, Ph.D. is known for her fresh ideas, authenticity and way with words. She is the first woman to earn tenure at the NY campus of her alma mater, Hebrew Union College, where she is professor emerita of history. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, she earned a doctorate at Columbia University and honed her spiritual practice at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. Chair of the Jewish Women’s Archive board, Carole speaks and publishes widely on gender and the Jewish experience. She is currently at work on a narrative non-fiction book about shifting Jewish identity as told through the stories of bat mitzvah girls since the first one in the US in 1922. Carole made her “Broadway debut” in a student production of The Vagina Monologues. She loves knitting with hand-dyed yarn, tree posing during Iyengar yoga, and cozying up with a good novel. https://www.carolebalin.com/home daily 1.0 2020-05-17