The Women's Current

A Life Après® Podcast

Season Two
Exploring the systems shaping women’s lives—from healthcare and reproductive law to media visibility and climate activism.

Women In Politics with Judith Hope

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Women In Politics with Judith Hope
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Women in Politics – Don’t Tell Her She Can’t!

It was 1973, East Hampton needed a Town Supervisor. She was told ‘no one will elect a woman.’ Those words would keep with her forever and blazed a future she hadn’t thought of. Judith Hope ran, won and became East Hampton’s first female Town Supervisor serving three terms. Turns out, Judith was the first female town supervisor in all of Long Island. Local politics and women are quite the combination. Judith ran on an environmental ticket. She got the 2% transfer tax passed which has raised over a billion dollars and is responsible for saving more than 5,000 acres of open space,

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Holocaust’s Hidden Children with Jennifer Rosner

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Holocaust's Hidden Children with Jennifer Rosner
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The hidden children of the Holocaust was a story that author Jennifer Rosner had not heard about. In her latest novel ONCE WE WERE HOME, she tells their story. Throughout her journey, she became captivated by the intricacies of finding a sense of belonging and identity. Jennifer encountered a woman who worked on a post-WW2 mission to recover Jewish orphans hidden in Christian settings for safety. Jennifer’s exploration of this lesser-known aspect of history highlights the moral complexities of displacing children who had already endured the trauma of losing their original families.

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