Mardene Miller, president of global healthcare advertising and promotion agency Harrison & Star, oversees the development of campaigns to help pharmaceutical companies educate physicians and patients about diseases and medications.
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NBC New York reporter Jen Maxfield Ostfeld's stories are broadcast to millions of viewers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
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Kathy Raffa, a CPA, is president, as well as owner and partner, of Raffa, a Washington, D.C.-area firm which provides accounting, technology, tax and financial consulting services to more than 1,000 nonprofits.
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Rabbi Dana Saroken is the creator of The Soul Center at Beth El, a Conservative congregation in suburban Baltimore.
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Pam Sherman is a nationally syndicated columnist (the Suburban Outlaw), actor, recovering lawyer and leadership consultant. Today she coaches and conducts programs for leaders all over the world about leadership communications and how to find their EDGE: Explore, Dream, Grow, & Excite™.
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Shelley Zalis, the L.A.-based CEO of The Female Quotient and founder of the Girls’ Lounge, works to empower individuals and companies to champion diversity and equality.
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A documentary now showing at film festivals tells the story of a seriously strong little girl. As an Orthodox Jew and a female athlete, 15-year-old powerlifter Naomi Kutin is not only breaking records, but also shattering stereotypes.
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Before there was Hillary or Michelle, there was Eleanor. To cap off Women’s History Month we asked Eleanor Roosevelt’s biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook to share with us some of the ways in which this activist, First Lady and UN delegate can inspire us today.
JWI congratulates our wonderful philanthropic partner on its centennial! We are so proud to have joined the Sigma Delta Tau Sorority family and are so grateful for the generosity and commitment of SDT to the mission and work of JWI.
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This twenty-something New Yorker is working to empower refugees by teaching them culinary skills.
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The 2016 Young Women’s Leadership Conference brought together nearly 200 Jewish women from across the United States to network with and learn from JWI’s inspiring Women to Watch honorees.
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Tami Ackerman writes about why JWI's National Library Initiative is a project close to her heart.
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In this week’s Torah portion—Vayishlach—we learn about the rape of Dinah. What is most striking about the story is that throughout, Dinah is silent. At JWI’s 2016 Women to Watch gala, attendees heard from a young woman who refused to be silent after she was raped.
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Sonat Birnecker Hart shook up her career by transitioning from college history professor to president of a distillery.
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Ethel Kessler, the art director behind the new 2016 Hanukkah Forever stamp, is considered a rock star in stamp design.
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For #VoteLikeAGirl, Senator Cheryl C. Kagan tells JW magazine why there’s just no excuse to sit out elections.
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The Oscar-winning actress talks about Judaism, being deaf, parenthood, Celebrity Apprentice and winning an Oscar when she was barely out of high school.
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We spoke with historian and author Deborah Lipstadt, whose legal battle with a Holocaust denier is told in the new film Denial.
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For #VoteLikeAGirl, Maryland Delegate Shelly Hettleman tells JW magazine why it’s so important for women to use their voices by voting, calling their representatives, and sharing their experiences.
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For our #VoteLikeAGirl series, Dafna Michaelson Jenet speaks with JW magazine about what it’s like to run for office. Jenet is a first-time candidate for the Colorado House of Representatives, District 30.
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