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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

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Members of the Subsidized Daycare Forum hold a press conference, at Hamacabia Village in Ramat Gan, on July 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 24, 2022, 4:58 pm
Subsidized daycare centers threaten to keep their doors closed come September
Histadrut chief urges Lapid to intervene: ‘10,000 toddlers will be left without a daycare center this year’
By Tobias Siegal
Ultra-Orthodox protesters vandalize an election poster of Jerusalem mayor candidate MK Rachel Azaria in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on July 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 3, 2019, 9:40 am
Feminist campaign hits Jerusalem buses to compensate for defaced mayoral posters
After ultra-Orthodox vandalized her mayoral banners last summer, Rachel Azaria launches ‘I dream’ drive which envisions society without discrimination against women
By Stuart Winer
Kindergarten children in their classroom.(Edi Israel/Flash90)
September 3, 2018, 8:59 am
Daycare strike ends as sides agree on bonuses, more workers
Staff to get NIS 1,500 extra for holidays; Welfare Ministry will look into streamlining training to bring Israel in line with caretaker-child ratio in rest of developed world
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Miriam Goldfisher, director of a kosher supervision class for women, studying Jewish dietary laws in preparation for the Israeli Chief Rabbinate exam on the topic. (JTA)
May 2, 2018, 11:52 pm
In first, women can apply to be Knesset rabbi
Lawyer for progressive Judaism persuades Knesset legal adviser to alter tender that discriminates by requiring Orthodox ordination
By Sue Surkes
Orthodox Jewish women attend a "Mashgiach" course at the Faith Seminary College for Jewish Women's Studies in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)
May 13, 2014, 5:42 am
Women kosher supervisors: A step toward gender equality?
Nine women took the Chief Rabbinate’s exam last week in Jerusalem. Should they pass, they will make history
By Ben Sales
Former chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger speaks to women attending a seminar on the laws of Kashrut in 2010. (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
May 9, 2014, 4:50 am
In a first, Israeli women take test for kosher supervisor
Chief Rabbi David Lau’s ruling paves way for approval by religious authorities
By JTA
Former chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger speaks to women attending a seminar on the laws of Kashrut in 2010. (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
July 8, 2013, 1:14 am
Emunah sues Chief Rabbinate to allow female kosher supervisors
Court petitioned to compel religious body to explain discriminatory policy preventing 16 women from working in their chosen profession
Illustrative photo of a wedding (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
April 9, 2013, 1:49 pm
Rabbinical courts given leave to lock up recalcitrant husbands indefinitely
Women’s groups hail landmark decision that will turn up the heat on men who refuse to grant their wives a divorce
By Asher Zeiger
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
October 24, 2012, 6:41 pm
Ideally, women should not run for Knesset or even vote, prominent rabbi says
Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely, however, gets the Shlomo Aviner seal of approval
By Philip Podolsky
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