Jewish Feminist leadership was part of NJA's culture from its earliest days, and the 1985 Conference passed a resolution to begin a Feminist Taskforce (FTF). The national FTF encouraged local chapters to form their own feminist taskforces and work on recruiting women to NJA who would be interested in that work. New Jewish Agenda's feminist taskforce was heavily influenced by the work of many non-Jewish feminists of color who had been challenging the white-dominated culture of the larger feminist movement, and making space for complicated conversations about overlapping identities. One of the FTF's projects was "Gesher" (Bridge), a newsletter that included reports from each chapter's FTF, and raised feminist issues within NJA. "Gesher" later became the Jewish Feminist journal "Bridges", which continued to be published until June, 2011.