Shabbat Shiur with Ruth Messinger: Women Hold Up Half the Sky

Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service, will discuss the role of women living in the developing world and the enormous challenges they face. Ruth will explain that despite these challenges, women frequently serve as the catalysts for positive social change. She will highlight the women’s empowerment work of AJWS, which supports projects that help local women transform their own lives and create lasting and meaningful change for themselves, their families and their communities.