Ronit Sherwin, 39, Executive Director, Hillel

Her feminist-Jewish-Orthodox-single motherhood

At 19, I started working in the Jewish community in Columbus, Ohio, and it changed my life. I just found that Jewish women were everywhere, they were the majority of the people on committees, they loved to learn, they were doing everything. Okay, maybe not in leadership roles. I come from a Conservative Jewish home with an Israeli mother. Jewish women are just really interesting.

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How Being a Jew & Being a Feminist Collide, Co-Evolve, Cohabit in 7 Women’s Lives

The articles in this special section:

Diane Balser, 68, talks to Susan Schnur

Her Lifelong Feminist-Jewish Politics

Mimi Arbeit, 26, Doctoral Student in Child Development

Her feminist-Jewish sex education

Enid Schatz, 40, Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies

Her feminist-jewish-interracial-interfaith family

Vanessa Hidary, Ageless Diva, Spoken Word Artist, Actress, Writer, Director

Her feminist-Jewish viva Puerto Rico!

Jane Eisner, 56, Editor of the Forward Newspaper

Her feminist-Jewish all-of-a piece finally

Ronit Sherwin, 39, Executive Director, Hillel

Her feminist-Jewish-Orthodox-single motherhood

Joanna Ware, 25, Community Organizer and Educator at Keshet

Her feminist-Jewish tattoo