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Vicki Gabriner

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Vicki Gabriner, July 2000

Vicki Gabriner

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Women Who Dared

Judith Rosenbaum interviewed Vicki Gabriner on July 20, 2000, in Brookline, Massachusetts, as part of the Women Who Dared Oral History Project. Gabriner recounts growing up in Brooklyn, her journey through activism, involvement in social justice issues, experiences with the Weathermen, coming out as a lesbian, and her deepening connection to Judaism and Yiddish culture.

https://jwa.org/oralhistories/gabriner-vicki
Vicki Gabriner and Rochelle Ruthchild

Vicki Gabriner, 1942 - 2018

Activist, agitator, proud Brooklynite, feminist, lesbian, socialist, wit, wife, cherished friend and relative. Vicki Levins Gabriner was articulate, principled, often ahead of her times.

https://jwa.org/weremember/gabriner-vicki
Vicki Gabriner, July 2000

Vicki Gabriner

As a radical activist for civil rights, feminism, and an end to the Vietnam War, Vicki Gabriner risked her life to transform the country at a time of tremendous upheaval.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gabriner-vicki
Lillian Rappaport at the JWA Institute for Educators, 2011
July 12, 2011

Update from JWA's Institute for Educators

Ellen K. Rothman

On Sunday afternoon, 23 women and one [brave] man arrived in suburban Boston to spend four days at JWA’s 2011 summer Institute for Educators.

Topics: Education, Jewish Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies
https://jwa.org/blog/Update-from-JWAs-Institute-for-Educators
Heather Booth and Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964

Unit 2, Lesson 4 - Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer

Explore the role of community organizing, Jewish values, and moral conviction in the lives of young civil rights activists as you imagine yourself a participant in Mississippi Freedom Summer.

https://jwa.org/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/community-organizing-i-freedom-summer
January 23, 2009

June Finer. Vicki Gabriner. Anyone? Let's Not Forget!

Jordan Namerow

On January 21, the Forward published an article about how Obama's presidency is renewing Jewish activists' memories of the civil rights movement, offering personal vindication for some of the central experiences in these Jewish activists' lives.

Topics: Civil Rights
https://jwa.org/blog/vicki-gabriner-podcast

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