Sonia Pressman Fuentes
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Interviews of, and Articles about, Sonia Pressman Fuentes
Articles about Sonia are also contained in the section on Belgium.
- Sonia, her parents and brother in the 1930s are shown in the lower right-hand side picture. This is page 18 from the booklet, Red Star Line Museum, People on the move, published by the Red Star Line Museum, due to open in Antwerp, Belgium, on Sept. 28, 2013.
- June 13, 2013, Report of Leita Kaldi, head of the UN Women’s Book Club, Sarasota, FL, on the discussion of Sonia’s memoir, with Sonia present, on June 10.
- Sarasota's Sonia Pressman Fuentes to Receive Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award, April 17, 2013
- On March 14, 2013, the Veteran Feminists of America (VFA), an organization dedicated to recognizing the pioneer feminists of the second wave of the women’s movement, announced the revamping of its website at www.vfa.us. Sonia is mentioned throughout the website.
- On February 21, 2013, the Women’s Herstory Initiative, Words of Women, International Women’s Day, based in Dallas, TX, announced that the essay of seventeen-year-old Talia Weisberg about Sonia on the subject “The Most Influential Woman in My Life” won the Words of Women Essay contest.
- The book, Jews of Sarasota-Manatee, by Kim Sheintal (Arcadia Publishing, Feb. 2013), contains a 2002 photo of Sonia in front of a sign about the Jewish Genealogical Society (JGS) of Southwest Florida (p 25). Sonia gave a talk to JGS on March 2002. To see Sonia’s photo, go to arcadiapublishing.com. You will see a photo of the book cover. Under that are the words "Search Inside," click on that, then type in “Sonia Pressman Fuentes.”
- “Boston Commons,” by Talia Weisberg, was published on January 8, 2013, in Fresh ink for Teens, an online newspaper sponsored by the Jewish Week in New York City.
- "Groundbreakers or Ground Takers?" by Talia Weisberg, was published on December. 8, 2012, in Fresh ink for Teens, an online publication sponsored by the New York Jewish Week.
- By Tyler Whitson, "Women's Rights Pioneers Strive to Influence and Inspire a New Generation," Sarasota News Leader, November 16, 2012. (Visit the Sarasota News Leader Web site.)
- "Women’s Rights Pioneer Sonia Fuentes Speaks at Law School," enewsletter of the Cornell University School of Law, Oct. 31, 2012.
- By Deborah Carney, "Sonia Pressman Fuentes Interview About Feminism and Her Memoir," October 8, 2012.
- Interview with Sonia Pressman Fuentes as a Featured Writer on authormepro.com, August 30, 2012.
- By Nick Friedman, "Neighbors: Sonia Pressman Fuentes," July 4, 2012.
- Jewdayo, June 30, 2012, Sonia as a founder of NOW.
- Sarasota Observer, June 28, 2012: Sonia presents copies of her memoir to prizewinning young women students at Booker Middle School, Sarasota, FL.
- RTIRonline asks Sonia to comment on the death of Nora Ephron, June 28, 2012.
- Website devoted to Sarah Palin calls Sonia a “so-called feminist” (presumably under the theory that forty-seven years of fighting for women’s rights isn’t long enough to qualify one as a feminist). (June 25, 2012)
- Is Laura Bush feminist enough for Alice Paul Award?, Washington Post, June 20, 2012.
- Who Will Speak Out Against an Outrageous Insult to Former First Lady Laura Bush?, The Huffington Post, June 19, 2012.
- Laura Bush’s fight for women, Washington Post, June 19, 2012.
- Sewall-Belmont House draws fire for honoring Laura Bush, Washington, DC’s The Examiner, June 18, 2012.
- Sonia initiates campaign to protest the National Woman’s Party/Sewall-Belmont House & Museum’s plan to give the Alice Award to Laura Bush, Washington Post, June 18, 2012.
- Cary Franklin, “Inventing the `traditional concept’ of sex discrimination,” Harv. Law Review, Vol. 125, # 6, p. 1307 (2012), Univ. of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper #219.
- "Eva Alexandra Countess Kendeffy, Sonia Pressman Fuentes and Rabbi Jonathan Katz", Longboat Key Observer of March 11, 2012. This picture also appeared in the Sarasota, FL, Jewish News (April 2012, p. 14B).
- By David Beard and Bethonie Butler, "The keys to a better life? Everyone has an opinion," February 21, 2012.
- Interview of Sonia by Talia bat Pessi, a high school student, that went online on Feb. 9, 2012.
- Feb. 5, 2012, Interview with Cyrus Webb, editor of Conversations Magazine.
- By Paul Berger, "When 'Savior of Jews' is Deeply Flawed," January 09, 2012. (Article includes a slide show about Sonia.) The article, which deals with Sonia’s request to The Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem in Israel to remove Robert de Foy from those recognized as Righteous, was picked up by newspapers in Belgium, Canada, and France. An article about the same subject appeared on Feb. 8, 2012, in Dutch in Joods Actueel, a monthly newspaper directed to Jews in Belgium. By letter of Feb. 4, 2013, The Righteous Among the Nations Department advised Sonia that “after painstaking examination,” her request was denied.
- "Jean Faust, First President of the First Chapter of NOW," December 8, 2011.
- By Abby Weingarten, "Feminist Revisits Her Birth Country," November 9, 2011 (Online version | Photocopy)/Sonia with Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger
- Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter, October 2011
- "NOW Conference: Action, Inspiration and Connection," Now National Times, Fall 2011
- "Sonia Fuentes, writer, speaker, and feminist activist, tells us about her life," HavaMAG Life, Issue 4, September 2011 (To access the article: Click on the arrow to the right until it takes you to the Table of Contents on the left. Next, click on the first item in the Table of Contents, which is the article about Sonia, on page 10. When you come to the article, double click on each page to make the type readable.)
- "Featured Author," Published by Sonia's publisher, Xlibris Corp., in a newsletter and on its website, July 27, 2011.
- By Slavica Monczka, “Feminist Sonia Pressman Fuentes. Her Passion for Women’s Rights,” appeared in the e-zine, Inspirational Woman’s Magazine, on July 24, 2011, and was written by Slavica Monczka.
- By Slavica Monczka, "Something Beautiful is Happening," seductivelyfrench.com, July 5, 2011
- "Blending motherhood and working: Moms work by choice — and also out of necessity," Deseret News, June 26, 2011
- "Second Wave Founder" by Sonia Fuentes, girlscantwhat.com, June 9, 2011
- The CHJ Connection (Vo. XIV, No. 9, May-June 2011)
- Sonia’s March 3, 2011, letter to the editor of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune is discussed in “Religious Rehab at Florida Jail Sparks Protest,” Church & State (Vol. 64, No. 4, Apr. 2011), the magazine of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The letter is included and can be read in the Letters to the Editor section of this website.
- The Jewish News of Sarasota-Manatee (Vol. 41, No. 2, Feb. 2011): article about the Red Star Line Museum opening in Antwerp, Belgium, on Sept. 27, 2013, which will have a permanent exhibit about Sonia and her family.
- The CHJ Connection, the newsletter of the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism in Sarasota, FL, December 2010
- TILES, the newsletter of the Jewish Museum of Florida, December 2010
- 2 million passengers, 2 million stories, The Red Star Line Museum, October 10, 2010
- By WomensRadio Staff, October 12, 2010.
- By Cathy B Stucker, sellingbooks.com, September 8, 2010
- Column called “WorkWise BlogTip: Know when to be direct” by Dr. Mildred L. Culp, which appeared in the Modesto [Calif.] Bee of Sept. 6, 2010
- Radio-TV Interview Report, "Elena Kagan—Fifty and Fabulous," July 7, 2010
- By Joan Collins, The Sullivan County Democrat newspaper on June 18, 2010
- By Joan Collins, The Sullivan County Democrat newspaper on June 11, 2010
- Author Spotlight, Xlibris, June, 2010
- By Andrea Kay, USA Today, May 17, 2010
- By Nancy Gibbs, "Love, Sex, Freedom and the Paradox of the Pill, A Brief History of Birth Control," April 22, 2010
- By David Ball, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, February 20, 2010
- By Tamar Burris, published on the Web site, Story of My Life, January 19, 2010.
- Added as a Luminary on inspiremetoday.com, October 2009
- By Marita Meegan, akgmag.com interviews, August 2009
- By Corie Russell, She Knows, July 2009
- By Meigs Glidewell, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 30, 2009
- By Heather Dunhill, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 4, 2009
- By Veronica I. Arreola, Viva la Feminista, April, 2009
- By Amanda Joe, The Cornell Daily Sun, April 23, 2009
- StopGap Magazine, the members’ magazine of the Fawcett Society in the UK, Spring 2009
- Sonia, who graduated from Monticello High School, in Monticello, NY, was profiled in the October 2008 issue of the newsletter of the Monticello Central School District and is on the district’s website.
- By Kristen J. Tsetsi, Journal Inquirer, March 31, 2008
- By Evelyn L. Moya, The Docket, February 2008
- By Linda Jimenez Glassman, "English Corner" Radio Sefarad interview, August 2007
- By Ruth Lando, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 1, 2007
- By Steven A. Bibb, Passages, Summer 2007
- By Marsha Fottler, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, May 12, 2007
- By Erica Brody, National Council of Jewish Women Journal, Winter 2006 (pdf. file)
- Featured Author, Xlibris, November, 2006
- By Adam Levin, Washington Jewish Week, June 29, 2006
- By Susan Weidman Schneider, The Reporter (Spring 2006, Vol. 55, No. 2, p. 10), a publication of Women's American ORT
- The Barrister, the University of Miami (FL) School of Law alumni magazine, Winter 2005
- By Debra Rubin, "The f-wordOnline exhibit features local Jewish feminists," October 27, 2005. Sonia is one of six Washington, DC, area women included in the exhibit of the Jewish Women’s Archive called Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution.
- By Jacqueline Sternberg, Washington Jewish Week, April 28, 2005
- By Ken Millstone, The Potomac Almanac, October 13-19, 2004
- By Jeanette Friedman, Lifestyles Magazine, Fall 2003 (pdf file)
- By Sylvia Danovitch, Women in Judaism: Contemporary Writings, June 2003 (This interview also appears on the website of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, on whose consulting board Ms. Fuentes serves.)
- By Sheri' McConnell, National Association of Women Writers, May 2003
- By Michael Pollick, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, November 25, 2002
- By Magdalena Ball, The Compulsive Reader, July 2002
- By the Editor of WomenWriters.net, June 2002
- By Phil Fink, radio interview on Shalom America, WELW 1330 AM, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 3, 2002 (not available on the www)
- By Norman Simms, Chadashot, August 2001
- By Bill Adams, The Senior News, July 2001
- By Jenna Glatzer, WriteRead University, May 14, 2001
- Publishing Success Magazine, May 2001
- By Lisa Katz, "The Making of a Jewish American Feminist: Sonia Pressman Fuentes." This is a seven-part piece about Eat First and Ms. Fuentes.
- By Barbara Ruben, Senior Beacon, October 2000
- Cornell Chronicle (Vol. 31, No. 31, April 20, 2000)
- By Lynn Laframboise, Word Wrangler Publishing, February 2000
- Shalom, newspaper for the Reading, PA, Jewish community, February 2000
- By Linda Eberharter, Bridge Works Publishing, January 2000
- By Marlena Thompson, Washington Jewish Week, December 16, 1999
- By Linda Davis Kyle, "Writers Around the World," August 1998
- By Eva S., "Evenings with Eva," July 21, 1998
- By Ellen Joan Pollock, Wall Street Journal, May 1998 (This article is a follow-up to a 1975 Wall Street Journal article by Mary Bralove.)
- By Risa Molitz, "Fuentes' lecture leads to talk on uniting women," University of Virginia's The Cavalier Daily, October 22, 1997.
- By Frankee Nesta, West Coast Woman, May 1997
- By Sylvia Danovitch, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), December 27, 1990
- “Impressions: The Status of Women in Southeast Asia,” published in the Common Law Lawyer (no longer in existence), Sept.-Oct. 1978. (To enlarge the print on machines using Windows, hold down the control button of your computer while moving the wheel of your mouse. If viewing through Adobe Acrobat, enlarge the text with the plus button, or use the percentage dropdown list.)
- By Betty Friedan, It Changed My Life: Readings on the Women’s Movement, 1976
- By Mary Bralove, Wall Street Journal, May 13, 1975
- Excerpt from Betty Friedan’s article, “Up from the kitchen floor,” NY Times Magazine (March 4, 1973), crediting Sonia with giving her the idea to start an organization to fight for women like the NAACP fought for its constituents.
- Courier-Times, Bucks County, PA, June 25, 1970
- By Dorothy Gilcrest, Anniston (AL) Star, October 21, 1969
- Courant, Hartford, CT, December 7, 1966
- By Louise Hutchinson, "U.S. Hearings To Weigh Sex in the Skies." Sonia drafted the first EEOC decision in these cases finding that airlines violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when they terminated or grounded stewardesses for reaching the age of 32 or 35 or marrying.
- By Sylvia Porter, Post-Crescent, May 28, 1963
- B’nai B’rith Women’s World, November 1959
- By Susie Marbey, The Miami Hurricane, May 10, 1957
Belgium and the Red Star Line (RSL) Museum
- Sonia and her family will be featured in the RSL Museum, dedicated to immigration and the RSL, due to open on September 28, 2013. She is one of three surviving RSL passengers of whom the Museum knows. See The Jewish News of Sarasota-Manatee (Vol. 41, No. 2, Feb. 2011) for an article about this. On Aug. 6, 2011, Philip Heylen, Antwerp’s vice mayor for culture and tourism, gave a talk entitled “Antwerp to America: The Red Star Line and Jewish Immigrants,” to Sonia’s congregation, the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, in Sarasota, Fl, which focused on Sonia and her family.
For further information, see the Museum’s home page and the Red Star Line's Passenger List page. If you scroll down this latter page, you can see a picture of Sonia with her family and a brief write-up. If you click on Sonia’s name, you can see a larger write-up. - "Revelation in Belgium," February 2012 issue (Vo. XXI, No. 6) of “The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel, Longboat Key, FL.”
- January 12, 2012, article by Chris Snick, in Antwerp, Belgium, newspaper, Het Nieuwsblad, about Sonia’s efforts to have Robert de Foy removed as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem.
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By Paul Berger, "When 'Savior of Jews' is Deeply Flawed," January 09, 2012. (Article includes a slide show about Sonia.) The article, which deals with Sonia’s Sept.-Oct. 2011, request to The Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem in Israel to remove the late Robert de Foy, former director of the Sûreté Publique (like America’s FBI), from those recognized as Righteous, was picked up by newspapers in Belgium, Canada, and France. An article about the same subject appeared on Feb. 8, 2012, in Dutch in Joods Actueel, a monthly newspaper directed to Jews in Belgium. By letter of Feb. 4, 2013, The Righteous Among the Nations Department advised Sonia that “after painstaking examination,” her request was denied.
(At the same time that Sonia filed her de Foy claim, she also filed a claim seeking to have the late Camille Huysmans, former mayor of Antwerp and former prime minister of Belgium, recognized as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. The Righteous Among the Nations Department concluded that Sonia did not submit sufficient documentation for that claim to proceed to a decision.) - Article published in De Nieuwe Antwerpenaar magazine in Antwerp, Belgium in mid-Oct. 2011. The picture is of Sonia and her brother, Hermann, at an Antwerp park in 1933-4. A magazine editor in Antwerp found the location, had his photographer take a picture of Sonia in the same spot on Sept. 13, 2011, and juxtaposed the two pictures in this photo.
- October, 2011, article by Frans L. Van Den Brande, in Belgian Jewish magazine, Joods Actueel.
- Letter from Philip Heylen, vice mayor for culture and tourism of Antwerp, Belgium, Sept. 19, 2011.
- Article published in Antwerpen Stad in Antwerp, Belgium in September 14, 2011, p. 16.
- Article published in De Nieuwe Gazet in Antwerp, Belgium in September 14, 2011, p. 18.
- Article published in Het Nieuwsblad in Antwerp, Belgium in September 14, 2011, p. 31.
- TV program shown in Antwerp, Belgium, about Sonia on September 13, 2011.
- 2 million passengers, 2 million stories, The Red Star Line Museum, October 10, 2010.
