“When I was about 11 years old, someone from the school came and said, starting from today the boys are going to learn to read Torah, and the girls are going to Home Ec…[This] felt like a gut punch to me…” – jGirls+ founder, Elizabeth Mandel
In this Collaboratory Conversations interview with Aliza Mazor, UpStart’s Chief Field-Building Officer, Elizabeth shares her Jewish feminist awakening story and what led her to create a platform for Jewish teen girls to feel empowered. While the world tells girls to quiet down, and be smaller, jGirls+ encourages them to speak up and assert their voices!
