Welcome! Empowering Ruth is a community for women who have converted into Judaism, including graduates of the Empowering Ruth study course. It provides a safe space for further learning and sharing of experiences.

About Empowering Ruth

Empowering Ruth is a free program sponsored by the Jewish Outreach Institute that supports women Jews-by-choice through a virtual email community and through an education course. See below to sign up for the Empowering Ruth listserve. Watch this space for future announcements about upcoming courses. To learn more about the Empowering Ruth course, click here.

The Empowering Ruth Listserve

You can subscribe to the list, or change your existing subscription, in the sections below. To post a message to all the list members, send email to empoweringruth@lists.joi.org. (Please allow time for your message to be approved by the moderator before it reaches the listserve.) To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Empowering Ruth Archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.) If you need help, please email listserve moderator Liz Marcovitz at LMarcovitz@JOI.org.

Subscribing to the Empowering Ruth Listserve

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