Ally Karpel

Ally Karpel is a rising second-year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Prior to rabbinical school she ran the WRJ-RAC Reproductive Health & Rights Campaign, where she drove strategy around the Reform Movement's reproductive rights advocacy. Prior to her work on the campaign, Ally worked as the WRJ Eisendrath Legislative Assistant, where she represented WRJ in coalition and on Capitol Hill in advocating for a range of issues, including reproductive rights, gender-based violence, economic justice, labor rights, and disability rights.

Jewish Values

From Struggle to Progress: Reflecting on Women’s History Month 2021

Ally Karpel

March 31, 2021

Each March, dozens of countries across the globe commemorate Women’s History Month as a time to highlight the political, cultural, and socioeconomic achievements of women.

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Social Justice

A Pandemic Within a Pandemic: Marking Domestic Violence Awareness Month During COVID-19

Ally Karpel

October 20, 2020

As intimate partner violence rates surge, the Senate still refuses to pass a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which has been in limbo for more than a year.

Reproductive Health and Rights

Contraception at the Supreme Court: What you need to know about (yet another) major birth control case

Ally Karpel

May 5, 2020

Tomorrow, May 6, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Trump v. Pennsylvania/Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, two consolidated cases challenging the Department of Health and Human Services October 2017 rules that

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Reproductive Health and Rights

Abortion: Still essential during this pandemic

Ally Karpel

March 30, 2020

Update: On March 30, federal judges in Alabama, Ohio, and Texas temporarily blocked each state's abortion bans. On March 31, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay on the ruling in Texas, allowing Texas' abortion ban to go back into effect. We urge

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Reproductive Health and Rights

How a Louisiana law could undermine abortion access across the country

Ally Karpel

January 3, 2020

Growing up in Texas, the summer of 2013 was a monumental time to be inspired by the power of women’s voices.