Norma Baumel Joseph (born 1944 in Brooklyn) is an American-born Canadian professor and Jewish feminist activist.
In 1990, Joseph was successful in working with the Government of Canada to pass a law that would protect Jewish women in need of a get.
[3] In 1965, she married Rabbi Howard Joseph who, five years later, became the leader of Montreal's Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
Her doctoral dissertation focused on the legal decisions of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein concerning the separate spheres for women in the Jewish community.
[2] Joseph has published widely in scholarly books and journals as an expert in Jewish feminist thought.
[5] She is a member of the advisory board of Kol ha-Isha: A Feminist House of Study in Jerusalem, sponsored by the Conservative movement.