jGirls+ Magazine

In case you missed it, Executive Director Elizabeth Mandel was featured in Elluminate Collective's Crown JEWEL conversation earlier this month. Elluminate's Collective is a cohort of entrepreneurial leaders who use their Jewish values and a gender lens to address intractable issues facing women and girls in the United States, Israel, and around the world.  Watch the recording here. 

“I am a winter’s night of freezing snow”

“i realize now/that loving you is quite like/spending a day at the beach”

Your common sense will tell you to get what you want And mine will always tell me to get it for you.

“I am her, she is me.”

I yearn for a god, A savior, some salvation

“I was happy spending time in my room with my quirky hobbies, alone, away from the intimidating world and other people.”

The cracks splintering from Ruth and Boaz’s hands display the potency a single act of kindness, of chessed, can have.

Ruth always defends herself and her loved ones and sees her troubles through.

Surrounding the shield is the phrase ish gibor chayil, meaning a “man of substance,” a strong, mightful, wise, and industrious man.