Jewish Women Biographies
Each year Miriam’s Cup recognizes a Jewish woman of achievement. Telling their story as part of the Passover Seder can inspire today’s Jewish women to live up to their full potential.
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2024: Claudia Goldin
Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is the winner of the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her exceptional contributions to the field by advancing the understanding of women’s progress in the work force. Claudia Dale Goldin was born in 1946 to Jewish parents in the
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2023: Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters was the first female anchor on a network newscast and the highest paid news performer in her time. Barbara Jill Walters was born in Boston on September 25, 1929, the daughter of Dena (née Seletsky) and Lou Walters (born Louis Abraham Warmwater or Varmvasser). Her parents were children of Jewish emigrants from Lodz,
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2022: Judith Kaplan Eisenstein and the 100th Anniversary of the Bat Mitzvah
Judith Kaplan Eisenstein March 18, 2022 is the 100th anniversary of the first publicly celebrated Bat Mitzvah in the U.S. A Bat Mitzvah ceremony for Judith Kaplan, aged 12, daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, took place at her father’s synagogue, The Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ) in New York City. Judith Kaplan was
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2021: Selina Solomons
August 26, 2000, marked the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote. There were two approaches to winning the vote for women: a nationwide push and a state-by-state fight. Selina Solomons was a key player in the California campaign. The oldest of seven children,
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2020: Gertrude Belle Elion
Gertrude (“Trudy”) Belle Elion’s greatest legacy is the thousands of lives touched by the breakthrough drugs she and her associates developed for the treatment of leukemia, rejection of transplanted organs, gout, and herpes, among other disorders. Elion shared the 1988 Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in recognition of her ground-breaking work. Gertrude Elion was
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