Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American writer and journalist. (The name Pogrebin is stressed on the first syllable: POH-grebin.) She graduated from Brandeis University and became a writer and feminist advocate in the early 1970s. In 1971, she was one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine, where she worked for 17 years, and a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus. She was also a consultant on Free to Be… You and Me and edited Stories for Free Children.

Pogrebin is a well-known advocate for feminist, Jewish, and Jewish-feminist causes, as well as a political activist on topics such as hunger, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and African American-Jewish relations. Her publications include Getting Yours: How to Make the System Work for the Working Woman; Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80s; Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America,; Three Daughters and the controversial and ground breaking, Anti-Semitism in the Women's Movement

Israel

Pogrebin has written in favour of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict led by Richard Goldstone. She has criticized certain hardline Jewish leaders (what she calls the "Jews in the Israel-right-or-wrong mafia") vilifying and instigating a 'McCarthy-like' campaign against Richard Goldstone, who himself is a "proud Jew and declared Zionist".

References

• Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive