When her father died, Abzug, then 13, was told that her orthodox synagogue did not permit women to say the (mourners') Kaddish, since that rite was reserved for sons of the deceased.
Abzug graduated from Walton High School in New York City, where she was class president,[REF] and went on to Hunter College of the City University of New York, later earning a law degree from Columbia University in 1947 [REF].