Join us for a lively discussion led by:  

Dr. Felicia Kornbluh, Professor of History and of Women, Sexuality and Gender Studies at UVM. 

With major movies, TV series, and books about her coming out this year, Golda Meir is having a “moment.”  Golda is an icon, but of what?  Socialist, Zionist, Woman, World Leader, Golda is beloved among American Jews but controversial in Israel.  

 As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War when Golda was Prime Minister, Dr. Felicia Kornbluh will lead us in a discussion of Golda’s life and what she represents to us as American Jews.  We will also consider the meaning of such renewed interest in her and the “Jewface” controversy with the upcoming movie. 

Dr. Felicia Kornbluh is an active Temple Sinai member, and Professor of History and of Women, Sexuality and Gender Studies at UVM.  She is the author of numerous books, including A WOMAN'S LIFE IS A HUMAN LIFE: My Mother, Her Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice (Grove Atlantic, January, 2023), Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective, with G. Mink (2018); and The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America (2007).