Shulamit S. Magnus is a professor of Jewish history, author of four books and numerous articles on Jewish modernity and the history of Jewish women, and winner of a National Jewish Book award and other prizes. Her opinions have been published in the Forward, Tablet, EJewish Philanthropy, Moment, and the Jerusalem Post. She is a founder of women's group prayer at the Kotel and read Torah there in the first such tefilla, in Dec., 1988. She is first-named plaintiff in a suit currently before the Supreme Court of Israel asking the Court to enforce its own rulings about women's prayer rights at the Kotel.
