Kirby Goodman, at The Blogs

Jul 11, 2019, 12:18 PM

Powerful and Protested: My Women of the Wall Experience

Eager but anxious, I walk past the barricades which keep ultra-Orthodox men from blocking the entrance, and step into the women's section of the Western Wall. Weaving through the private security and appalled young Orthodox girls who surround the...

About Me

Kirby Goodman is summer intern at the World Union for Progressive Judaism in Jerusalem, the international umbrella for Progressive and Reform Judaism. She is a rising sophomore at Colgate University in Upstate New York, planning to major in Neuroscience and Media and Politics. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, she is a student activist and journalist, hoping to pursue a career in journalism after university.