“Voluntary and Conscious Motherhood”: How the Jewish Community Brought the Birth Control Movement to Detroit
Join us for this exciting lecture as we learn about the history of the birth control movement in Detroit! In 1927, Morris Waldman, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation proposed something radical: a birth control clinic. The birth control movement was still in its infancy and greatly misunderstood; yet, Waldman believed it to be an essential need in the city of Detroit. He enlisted prominent Temple Beth El member, Elsie Sulzberger, to start the Mother’s Clinic, where services would be available to all, regardless of race, religion, or wealth. This is the story of how the birth control movement came to Detroit and the Jewish leaders who made it possible.
Presented by Robbie Terman, Director of the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan-Detroit (partner in the Center for Michigan Jewish Heritage)
This event is free and open to the community. Please join us in-person at Temple Beth El or through livestream at TBELive.org! Register at: https://tbebloomfieldhills.shulcloud.com/form/Jewish-History-Detectives.html
For more information, email Laura Gottlieb at lgottlieb@tbeoline.org or call 248-851-1100.
Each year, this lecture series is generously sponsored by Dr. Robert (z”l) and Joan Jampel.