almanac 9/10 to 9/16

Sometimes Jewish, sometimes feminist, sometimes both.

Birthdays

September 10

In 1909, Dr. Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, US author,
musicologist, and composer. In 1922 Dr. Eisenstein was the first woman to have a bat mitzvah. Her father is the intellectual founder of the Reconstructionist movement in Judaism.

September 13

In 1819, Clara Wieck Schumann, pianist and composer.

In 1843, Marian Hooper Adams, US photographer.

September 14

In 1879, Margaret Sanger feminist/nurse/birth control proponent.

In 1913, Mary Virginia Sink, first woman automotive engineer with Chrysler.

In 1934, Kate Millett, US political activist, writer,
feminist -- lesbian.

September 15

In 1890, Dame Agatha Christie, mystery writer.

Happenings

September 10

In 1894, United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded.

In 1973, exactly 64 years after Dr. Eisenstein's birth (see above), the Conservative branch of Judaism ruled that women would be counted along with men to make up the minimum requirement of ten needed for a communal worship service.

September 11

In 1951, Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France, taking 16 hours and 19 minutes.

September 12

In 1922, the Protestant Episcopal church removed the
word "obey" from the woman's part of the marriage vows.

September 13

In 1948, Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) was elected senator, the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

September 15

In 1853, Antoinette Brown was ordained the first US woman minister,
In 1941, Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania.
In 1954, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New
Year), Betty Robbins served as the first woman cantor in the United States at a Long Island, New York, synagogue.

September 16

In 1978, the Episcopal Church officially recognized the ordination of 15 women priests who had been ordained by consecrated bishops without the hierarchy's official approval.

Almanac

September 10 - September 16

Birthdays

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