Abigail Fisher

Abby Fisher is a former VP of WRJ and member of the executive committee and a past president of WRJ’s Northeast District. She is also the immediate past president of Beth El Temple Center in Belmont, Massachusetts, and the past and founding chair of the advisory council of URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy - East. She is a member of the New England Regional Council of the New Israel Fund and currently is serving as the co-chair of RAC Massachusetts.

hand holding a megaphone, voting buttons, and hands raised
Social Justice

Get Out the Vote on November 8th!

Abigail Fisher
Debra Goetz
Shoshana Dweck, VP of Social Justice, Temple Shaaray Tefila, Bedford Corners, NY
Over the past several years, it seems that so many of the things about which we, as Reform Jews, care have been under attack. Gun violence is still the norm; Roe v. Wade has been overturned; and People of Color and immigrants are still under attack. All that is not to mention the attacks on the very fabric of our democracy. What do all these things have in common? The best way to “fix” them; to move forward toward the sort of world we might actually like to have, is to vote.
WRJ member Abby Fisher praying at the Kotel
Religious Pluralism in Israel

Standing with Women of the Wall

Abigail Fisher
The first time I celebrated Rosh Chodesh with Women of The Wall (WOW) at the Kotel was in 2013 during the WRJ Centennial Mission to Israel. I was fully prepared and expecting to be detained by police. At that time, women were being arrested simply for wearing a tallit – a prayer shawl! For over 30 years, Women of the Wall have led the struggle for women’s right to pray aloud, with tallitot, tefillin, and Torah, at the Kotel in Jerusalem. This is a cause I really believe in. No one, and I mean NO ONE, is going to tell me how to pray or not.
Voices of WRJ

Voices of WRJ: Vayikra

Abigail Fisher

This week’s portion is Va-Yikra, the opening of the book of Leviticus. We begin with a description of all the different kinds of sacrifices and how they are to be performed.
Voices of WRJ

WRJ Voices: Tazria-M'tzora

Abigail Fisher

This week’s Parshah, Tazria-Metzora, deals with all kinds of ritual impurity, including the skin disease, tzara’at, usually translated as leprosy. An afflicted individual is to be placed outside the Israelites’ camp until the disease is gone.