Their later decision to legally marry followed a health scare: they wanted to be able to assure recognition of their primary relational status and their mutual access to each other within a health care system that often denied same-gender partners rights and dignity.Īckelsberg and Plaskow were part of an historic moment when LGBTQ folks were forging new modes of co-parenting and familial relationships. They had been public about their opposition to marriage during the decade or so of the LGB movement’s emphasis on “same-sex” marriage. The couple held a commitment ceremony in December of 1986 and were legally married in Massachusetts in 2013. In 1984, Ackelsberg began a relationship with a long-time friend and comrade, Jewish feminist theologian Judith Plaskow. With the family belonging to a local Conservative synagogue, Ackelsberg spent formative years, Jewishly and otherwise, at Camp Ramah (affiliated with the US Conservative movement and connected with the Jewish Theological Seminary): as a camper from ages ten to sixteen, a counselor-in-training for a year, and a counselor for three years from 1965 to 1967.Īckelsberg married David Mendelson in 1968 they were divorced in 1975. In her youth, Ackelsberg attended public schools where Jews were a small minority. Her parents’ Jewish grounding and political activism greatly influenced her trajectory. aliyah was thwarted by the advent of World War II. "ascent." A "calling up" to the Torah during its reading in the synagogue. Her parents were passionate, “radical” Zionists who dreamed of a life on a kibbutz in Israel, though their plan for Lit. She was raised in Bloomfield, NJ, with her two younger siblings: a sister Irvine (born 1949), and a brother Sholom (born 1958). Martha Ackelsberg was born on June 5, 1946, in New York, to Sylvia (Cohen) and Oscar Ackelsberg.
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