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Barbara Dobkin has been called many things—smart, tough, indefatigable, funny, brusque, brave, outspoken, and audacious. Which brings to mind this axiom: "Most societies make the mistake of honoring their live conformists and their dead troublemakers."
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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Jun 4, 2016 · Locks of hair cut from the dead were arranged and worn in lockets and rings, death masks were created in wax, and the images and symbols of death appeared in paintings and sculptures.
Barbara’s zest for AJWS has taken her around the globe to witness our work in India, Thailand, Cambodia, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Liberia, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. “I was blown away,” she said of her first trip to India in 2004, where she observed women from the poorest slums learning to weave so they could earn money ...
Nineteenth-century photograph of a deceased child with flowers. Some images, especially tintypes and ambrotypes have a rosy tint added to the cheeks of the corpse. Later photographs show the subject in a coffin, sometimes with a large group of funeral attendees. This was especially popular in Europe and less common in the United States. [15] .
