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Joseph was born in [[Brooklyn]] to Moishe (Murray) Baumel and Madeline (née Kohn).<ref name="NormaJWA">{{cite web |title=Norma Baumel Joseph |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/joseph-norma-baumel |first=Michael |last=Brown |website=Jewish Women's Archive |access-date=28 September 2019}}</ref> Moishe was a salesman who had emigrated to the United States as a child, and Madeline was a typist-secretary who arrived in the United States as an infant.<ref name="NormaJWA" /> Both sides of Joseph's family were heavily engaged in Jewish occupations.<ref name="NormaJWA" /> In 1965, she married Rabbi Howard Joseph who, five years later, became the leader of [[Montreal]]'s [[Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal|Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue]].<ref name="NormaJWA" />
She received a B.A. from [[Brooklyn College]] in 1966, an M.A. from the [[City University of New York]]{{which|reason=Which specific college in CUNY?|date=October 2023}} in 1968, and a Ph.D in religion from [[Concordia University]] in 1995. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the legal decisions of Rabbi [[Moshe Feinstein]] concerning the separate spheres for women in the [[Jews in Montreal|Jewish community]]. The dissertation was nominated for a Governor General's Gold Medal award for excellence.<ref name="Norma Baumel Joseph">{{cite web |title=Norma Baumel Joseph |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-norma-baumel |website=Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=28 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="NormaConcordia" /><ref name="NormaJWA" /> In 1975 she began teaching at Sir George Williams University.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2017-07-20 |title=Norma Baumel Joseph: Orthodox feminist |url=https://thecjn.ca/perspectives/opinions/norma-baumel-joseph-orthodox-feminist/ |access-date=2024-08-05 |website=The Canadian Jewish News |language=en-US}}</ref>
Joseph has published widely in scholarly books and journals as an expert in Jewish feminist thought. She serves on the editorial board of ''Women in Judaism'', on the advisory board of the Journal of Religion and Culture, on the advisory council of [[Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance|JOFA]], and on the international board of the [[Jewish Women's Archive]]. In 1995, she received the Leo Wasserman Prize for the best article published in American Jewish History that year for "Jewish Education for Women: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein’s Map of America" (vol. 83, no. 2, 205–222).<ref name="NormaJWA" /> Her teaching and research areas include women and Judaism, Jewish law and ethics, and women and religion.
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From the early 1970s she promoted women's greater participation in Jewish religious and communal life. In 1988 Joseph acted as one of the founding members of [[Women of the Wall]], where, alongside [[Anat Hoffman]] and other notable Israeli and Jewish feminists, she carried a Torah to the women's section of the [[Western Wall]].<ref name="anatCJN">{{cite news |title=Norma, I love you, but you're wrong |url=https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/norma-love-youre-wrong |access-date=28 September 2019 |publisher=Canadian Jewish News |date=10 November 2014}}</ref> She is a member of the advisory board of Kol ha-Isha: A Feminist House of Study in Jerusalem, sponsored by the [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative movement]].<ref name="NormaJWA" />
Joseph has been particularly active in the issue of ''[[agunot]],'' women denied divorce. As a founding member of the Canadian Coalition of Jewish Women for the ''Get'', she successfully worked with the Jewish community and the Canadian Federal Government to pass a law in 1990 (Divorce Act, ch.18, 21.1) that would protect Jewish women in difficult divorce situations and aid them in their pursuit of a [[Get (divorce document)|Jewish divorce]].<ref name=":0" /> Following the Canadian success, Joseph helped form the International Coalition for Agunah Rights, an international coalition of women's groups advocating for ''agunot''.<ref name="Norma Baumel Joseph"/>
==Honours and awards==
Joseph won the Leo Wasserman Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society for the best article of 1995 in the journal American Jewish History.<ref name="Norma Baumel Joseph" /> She was recognized by the National Council of Jewish Women (Montreal chapter), which chose her as its Woman of Distinction in 1998; by the Montreal Jewish community, which presented her with the Jacob Zipper Education Award in 2000; and by Jewish Women International, from which she received the Leading Light, Woman of the Year Award in 2002.<ref name="NormaJWA" />
Joseph was a recipient of a [[Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council]] research grant on gender and identity in the [[History of the Jews in Iraq|Iraqi Jewish]] Community of Montreal.<ref name="NormaConcordia" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.myjewishlearning.com/author/dr-norma-b-joseph/ |title=Dr. Norma B. Joseph |website=My Jewish Learning |access-date=28 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.aspx |title=Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council |access-date=28 September 2019}}</ref> She was the 2019 recipient of the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Norma Joseph awarded the 2019 Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award - Concordia University |url=https://www.concordia.ca/content/shared/en/news/artsci/religions-cultures/2019/03/Rosenberg_Award.html |access-date=2024-08-05 |website=www.concordia.ca |language=en}}</ref><ref name="NormaConcordia" />
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/joseph-norma-baumel Jewish Women's Archive]
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