Today we celebrate Equal Pay Day, the symbolic day in the new year until which women would have to work to earn what their male counterparts earned in the previous year. In the United States today, women on average earn 78 cents for every dollar their male
Rachel Chung


Rachel Chung is a 2014-2015 Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. She graduated in 2014 from Washington University in St. Louis, and is originally from Wyckoff, N.J., where she is a member of Barnert Temple.
Advocacy 101: Lessons from the Daughters of Zelophehad
Advocacy 101 from the Daughters of Zelophehad
This Shabbat, in parashah Pinchas, we read the story of the daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 27:1–11). After Zelophehad died, leaving no sons, his five daughters, Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah, went before Moses, Eleazer the priest, and the Jewish
A Woman’s Place is on the Money
When I was in eighth grade, my family and I took a vacation to England. It was an awesome trip, from visiting Oxford (or Hogwarts, as I recognized it) to Big Ben to the London Eye. Something else stands out about my first trip across the pond: Seeing Queen
On the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Raising Our Voices for Reproductive Justice
On January 22, we commemorate the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that established the constitutionally protected right of a woman to choose whether or not to have an abortion. The Court held that under the Fourteenth