In a 1916 letter, Henrietta Szold (the founder of Hadassah) defied Jewish tradition and challenged rituals that exclude women by asserting her right to say Kaddish (the Jewish prayer for mourners).

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Henrietta Szold on Saying Kaddish

Source: Jewish Women's Archive

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