Younger Jews have spearheaded changes before in American Jewish life, including forming small fellowship groups in the 1960s and 1970s called havurot.
Yes, religion has in some cases led to extremism, but it also has spearheaded social change.
Jaha Dukureh, a victim of FGM who has spearheaded the Change.org petition, will meet some of the more than 50 members of Congress who have lent their support to the petition, which calls on Barack Obama and the Department of Health and Human Services to commission research into the scale and severity of the problem in the US.
UNICEF has spearheaded a social change movement that that has led more than 25 million people to end the practice of open defecation and now use toilets.
Attorney General John Ashcroft, who has spearheaded many of these changes, is still largely unknown, but 31percentt said they viewed him favorably, compared with 8percentt who said they viewed him unfavorably.
Over the weekend, I spoke with Wilglory Tanjong, a sophomore who is a member of Princeton's Black Justice League, which has spearheaded the effort to change the Woodrow Wilson School's name.
The union leader who has spearheaded strikes, blockades and demonstrations against labour law changes in France has vowed to keep up the protests until the government suspends the measures and agrees to talks.
The plumber of Palm Island, who became the defining figure of a community uprising over a notorious death in custody, has spearheaded a successful class action that he hopes will forever change the public narrative around the events of 2004.
Steve has spearheaded developments in survey and data collection techniques to produce measurable systems that change how businesses connect with their clients and employees.
James has spearheaded initiatives to make the company "carbon neutral".
