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Ronit Y. Stahl

Ronit Y. Stahl

Ronit Y. Stahl is associate professor of history at UC Berkeley, the interim administrative chair of the Religious Diversity Cluster of the Othering and Belonging Institute and a Greenwall Faculty Scholar in bioethics. She is the author of “Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America” (2017).

Members of Jews For Racial and Economic Justice and IfNotNow hold signs that say "Baruch Hashem [thank God] for Abortion" at a rally in New York, May 3, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Jacob Henry of NY Jewish Week)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why Jewish voices matter: religious freedom and abortion activism

Ronit Y. Stahl by Ronit Y. Stahl May 10, 2022

“The first lawsuit I’d like to see is from a Jewish woman who has access to an abortion provider denied,” tweeted legal commentator Elie Mystal after Justice Samuel Alito’s draft […]

A group of Americans on Birthright Israel, a continuity-focused program for Jewish young adults. (Photo/from file)
Posted inOpinion

How patriarchal structures created the ‘Jewish continuity crisis’

Lila Corwin BermanKate RosenblattRonit Y. Stahl by Lila Corwin Berman, Kate Rosenblatt and Ronit Y. Stahl September 18, 2018September 18, 2018

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