1. Marcia Judith Freedman was an American-Israeli activist on behalf of peace, women's rights, and gay rights.
23 Facts About Marcia Freedman
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Marcia Freedman was a member of the Knesset from 1974 to 1977.
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Marcia Freedman was active in the American Civil Rights Movement between 1960 and 1967.
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Marcia Freedman became famous from her desire to modify abortion laws and raise awareness to the civil rights movement.
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In 1973, the feminist movement decided to support Shulamit Aloni's Ratz, and Marcia Freedman was given third place on the Ratz slate.
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Marcia Freedman caught Shulamit Aloni's attention based on her passion, commitment, and enthusiasm for the movement.
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Aloni asked Marcia Freedman to be the third seat on the party.
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The party won three seats in the 1973 Israeli legislative election, and Marcia Freedman became a member of the Knesset.
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Marcia Freedman became a strong advocate for Gay Rights movements because she came out as a lesbian to her daughter and her daughter started to isolate from her.
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Marcia Freedman was an early supporter of the creation of a Palestinian independent state.
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Marcia Freedman was involved in communications with the Palestinian Liberation Organization and supported what is known as the two-state solution.
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Marcia Freedman helped create an advocacy and support network for women in Israel.
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Marcia Freedman was a co-founder, together with Barbara Swersky and others of Israel's first shelter for battered women, established in 1977 in Haifa.
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Marcia Freedman left Israel and returned to the United States in 1981.
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Marcia Freedman again lived in Israel from 1997 to 2002, and founded the Community of Learning Women, which provided education in women's studies and computer literacy.
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Marcia Freedman wrote an article titled "Feminist Publishing in Israel" for the Women's Studies Newsletter in 1980.
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Marcia Freedman spoke about different bookstores involving feminist books in Hebrew and the six publishers that allows feminist works to be published.
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Marcia Freedman spoke about how few books on feminism were originally written in Hebrew and the minimal efforts there were to publish feminist writings.
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Marcia Freedman wrote a memoir entitled, Exile in the Promised Land, and was dedicated to her father.
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Marcia Freedman was the founding president of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, a pro-Israel and pro-peace organization which merged into J Street in 2010.
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Marcia Freedman was a past president of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
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Marcia Freedman was married to Bill Freedman in 1961 and the marriage ended in 1975; they had one daughter.
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Marcia Freedman died on September 21,2021, at the age of 83.