Jane Evans

For the New Zealand artist, see Jane Evans (artist).

Jane Evans (1907–2004) was the Executive Director of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods (now the Women of Reform Judaism) from 1933 to 1976.[1][2][3] She was its first full-time Executive Director, as from 1913 until 1933 (its first twenty years) the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods was led by volunteer presidents.[4][5] Evans also became president of the National Peace Conference in 1950.[6] Evans supported ordination for women. On April 29, 1957, she spoke to 1,000 delegates at a biennial general assembly meeting of the Union for Reform Judaism (then called the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC)) in favor of ordaining women, a speech which the New York Times called a "strong plea," though the UAHC took no action.[7] While Evans was still Executive Director of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods in 1963, it approved a resolution at its biennial assembly calling on the UAHC, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to move forward on the ordination of women.[8]

In 2003 Rabbi Adrienne Scott, who was then a rabbinic student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, wrote her thesis on Jane Evans, titled An Analysis of Dr. Jane Evans' Professional Contributions to the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods; it is the first and as of 2005 the only full-length study of Evans' life.[1]

The Jane Evans Papers are now held in the American Jewish Archives, where they were donated by the Union for Reform Judaism in June 2004.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "10 Minutes of Torah - 350 Years of Jews in America". Tmt.urj.net. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  2. ↑ "Reform Judaism Magazine - Sisterhood Timeline". Reformjudaismmag.org. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  3. ↑ "Evans". URJ. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  4. ↑ "Jane Evans, of Blessed Memory – One of a Kind | Women of Reform Judaism". Blogs.rj.org. 2013-03-12. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  5. ↑ "This Week in History - Reform Judaism leader Jane Evans argues for ordination of women rabbis | Jewish Women's Archive". Jwa.org. 1957-04-29. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  6. ↑ "This Week in History - Reform Judaism leader Jane Evans argues for ordination of women rabbis | Jewish Women's Archive". Jwa.org. 1957-04-29. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  7. ↑ "This Week in History - Reform Judaism leader Jane Evans argues for ordination of women rabbis | Jewish Women's Archive". Jwa.org. 1957-04-29. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  8. ↑ "This Week in History - Reform Judaism leader Jane Evans argues for ordination of women rabbis | Jewish Women's Archive". Jwa.org. 1957-04-29. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  9. ↑ "Jane Evans Papers". Americanjewisharchives.org. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
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