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Founding Chair of the Jewish Women’s Archive’s Board of Directors, Barbara Dobkin. Photo courtesy of Joan Roth. In March 2005, JWA held its first New York gala —So Laugh a Little: An Evening of Jewish Women's Comedy Honoring Barbara Dobkin.
Jun 23, 2021 · Photograph courtesy of HUC-JIR. In Brief. Barbara Berman Dobkin is the pre-eminent Jewish feminist philanthropist of the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century. Her vision, dedication, and philanthropic generosity have transformed the landscape of Jewish women’s organizations and funding in both North America and Israel.
Aug 23, 2024 · Founding Chair of the Jewish Women’s Archive’s Board of Directors, Barbara Dobkin. Photo courtesy of Joan Roth.
- Jewish and Israel Organizations
- Support of Feminist Media
- Other Left-Wing Causes
- Dobkins’ Political Contributions
The Dobkin Family Foundation has donated to the J Street Education Fund. 2 The fund and its affiliated advocacy arm, J Street, support left-wing U.S. policies toward Israel and the Middle East; the groups endorsed the Obama administration’s Iran nuclear deal3 and opposing the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel....
The Dobkin Family Foundation was a major donor to the film She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry. 13 The film documents the women’s liberation movement from the founding of the left-wing feminist group National Organization for Women (NOW) to even more radical parts of the movement.14 The film features two women from JANE, an organization that provided ...
The Dobkin Family Foundation, along with the Ford Foundation, provided the financial support the Fledgling Fund needed to found the Fledgling Engagement Lab. The lab is used to train liberal filmmakers how to increase the impact of their films. 21The Fledgling Fund supported film advocate for a wide range of liberal issues inducing environmentalist...
Eric and Barbara Dobkin are donors to left-wing and Democratic Party candidates and political committees across the United States. In 2000, Eric Dobkin donated $5,000 to the New York State Committee of the Working Families Party. 24 The Working Families Party attempts to push the Democratic Party to the left on economic issues in favor of labor uni...
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Sep 9, 2010 · Realising that the police could not investigate every death in the city during the Blitz, Dobkin strangled his wife, burying her under the ruins left by Vauxhall Baptist Church.
Jun 4, 2016 · Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of...
Jul 19, 2017 · As a ritual, postmortem photography helped check grief. By pressing subjects to execute specific poses and gestures, death photos helped the living externalize personal loss.
