As America celebrates the centennial of female suffrage this year, what’s striking is how much today’s female leaders have in common with their Jewish activist foremothers.

Onward Israel, launched in 2012 as a Jewish Agency project, coordinates subsidized summer internships in Israel for young Americans.

Rabbi Linda Motzkin launched the Community Torah Project to enlist the help of volunteers in producing a Torah scroll, from prepping parchment to stitching together panels of text.

With her business, The Family Cookbook, photographer Sarah Arnoff Yeoman may be the first to personalize intergenerational recipes with luminous, high-quality portraits.

Laszlo Mizrahi runs RespectAbility, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to fighting stigma and advancing opportunities for—and with—people with disabilities.

Watergen uses technology that filters humidity from the air to create clean, fresh drinking water.

A new crop of female, Jewish and (sometimes) Israeli contemporary street artists represent a departure for a field long dominated by men.

ArmorMe backpacks unfurl in a matter of seconds and come lined with double-panel kevlar plates to protect against bullets from handguns.