‘When we share our stories, we gain power’
Published in The Australian Jewish News
October 9, 2020
While prominent American-Jewish academic-activist Dr Keren McGinity joins the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation’s (ACJC) ‘Gender in Jewish Communal Organisations’ project as a consultant, she brings more than her experience as a gender scholar. McGinity is a trailblazer, a path unwittingly forged when she penned a courageous opinion piece for The New York Jewish Week in June 2018.
At that time, the #MeToo movement had ascended to full flight, and self-reflection and accountability pervaded every industry. But the American Jewish community was yet to confront its own #MeToo problem, McGinity wrote in the op-ed.
“I know, because I am one those women.”