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Dr. Aliza Lavie pictured with her new book, Iconic Jewish Women, during its launch in Jerusalem on March 18, 2024 (Credit: Lior Sade).
March 21, 2024, 11:56 am
Iconic Jewish women gather to celebrate release of new, empowering bat mitzva book
At a book launch in Jerusalem, Dr. Aliza Lavie says her new compilation is for ‘bat mitzvah girls of all ages’ who want to delve deep into their ancient heritage
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Bella Abzug shown in 1979. (Courtesy of Bernard Gotfryd, Library of Congress via JTA)
August 27, 2023, 2:50 am
Bella Abzug film aims to restore the Jewish congresswoman’s trailblazing legacy
With the newly released documentary ‘Bella!’ filmmaker Jeff L. Lieberman hopes to boost recognition of the US activist and politician who championed equality and environmentalism
By Shira Li Bartov
Nili Brenner, right, speaks with Dana Betzalel at the women's march in Bnei Brak, Israel on Aug. 24, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/The Times of Israel)
August 25, 2023, 3:17 am
At Bnei Brak women’s rights march, angry rhetoric drowns out Haredi-secular dialogue
Thousands of liberals rally in ultra-Orthodox city, with one organizer urging the jailing of rabbis, but others find common ground amid minor scuffles, drumming and loud music
By Canaan Lidor
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April 16, 2023, 4:59 pm
Civil Law vs. Halakhah in Israeli Courts
Israel’s Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, and Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation, the equivalent to a Bill of Rights, begin by anchoring the rights they protect in “the values of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.”
By Yofi Tirosh
Zalman Shazar, Golda Meir, David Ben Gurion and Giora Josephtal at a Labor party conference in Tel Aviv on April 8, 1959. (Hans Pinn/GPO)
September 7, 2022, 2:14 am
Biography revisits the life of Golda Meir, the anti-feminist feminist leader
Author Pnina Lahav’s ‘The Only Woman in the Room’ examines the career of Israel’s fourth prime minister by exploring how being a woman shaped — or twisted — her path
By Amy Spiro
Members of the Janes (aka the Service) in 1972. (Courtesy of HBO)
June 7, 2022, 10:03 pm
When a secret group of Chicago women defied the law to provide 11,000 safe abortions
From June 8, the HBO documentary ‘The Janes’ takes viewers back to the pre-Roe v. Wade era, and a little-known underground movement that kept women out of septic wards and morgue
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Midge Decter receives the Sidney Hook Award at the 2013 NAS Conference in New York, March 2, 2013. (Screenshot/YouTube)
May 10, 2022, 4:26 pm
Jewish neoconservative writer and anti-feminist activist Midge Decter dies at 94
A onetime Democrat, Decter later rejected ‘heedless and mindless leftist politics and intellectual nihilism’; she was known as the ‘requisite bad guy on discussion panels’
By Hillel Italie
Dr. Tamar Elram, CEO of Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital (Michelle Kuperschmit)
March 4, 2022, 1:15 pm
Podcast: How women are still building – and leading – Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital
We’re marking International Women’s Day by talking about leadership, important developments in women’s health and how the #metoo movement has affected the field of gynecology
By ToI Staff
Marcia Freedman in 2013. (Screenshot/YouTube)
September 23, 2021, 10:02 am
US-born ex-MK Marcia Freedman, a pioneer of Israeli women’s rights, dies at 83
The only openly lesbian lawmaker in Israeli history, activist helped found Israeli feminist movement, discussed domestic violence in 1970s to male colleagues’ ridicule
By Michael Bachner
From left: Economy and Industry Minister Orna Barbivai, Energy Minister Karin Elharrar, Environment Minister Tamar Zandberg and Transportation Minister Meirav Michaeli, announce a new inter-ministerial initiative to cut greenhouse emissions by 2050, June 29, 2021. (courtesy)
June 30, 2021, 2:23 pm
Daily Briefing June 30 – ‘Who run the world?’ Four female ministers make a start
Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today
By ToI Staff
Prominent Egyptian feminist Nawal Saadawi, July 2, 1985. (AP Photo/Paola Crociani, File)
March 21, 2021, 8:37 pm
Egyptian feminist icon and author Nawal el-Saadawi dies at 89
Renowned advocate of women’s rights was jailed several times for her political views, faced apostasy accusations from Islamists
By AP
'Christ in the House of Martha and Mary,' 1655 by Johannes Vermeer (public domain)
March 19, 2021, 8:00 am
Podcast: Busting myths, a scholar explores how women influenced Jesus’ teachings
In a new book, Prof. James McGrath wonders ‘What Jesus Learned from Women’ — and the answers may surprise you
By ToI Staff
Blu Greenberg, the founder of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, in an undated photo. (courtesy)
March 18, 2021, 3:05 pm
Join ToI Community and meet the matriarch of Orthodox feminism, Blu Greenberg
In this week’s Behind the Headlines, exclusively for ToI Community members, a pioneering Jewish voice that wrestles with the values of Orthodoxy and feminism
By ToI Staff
Labor party member Merav Michaeli casts her vote at a Labour party polling station in Tel Aviv on January 24, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 10, 2021, 2:44 pm
Women set to make gains, but Knesset still a good ol’ boy’s club
Labor’s Merav Michaeli ended the female party head drought and may lead a female-majority faction, but even as some slates put women in top spots, true equality remains a mirage
By Tal Schneider
Nathalie Becquart. (Screen capture/ YouTube)
February 8, 2021, 12:00 am
Breaking with Catholic tradition, pope appoints first woman to senior post
Frenchwoman Nathalie Becquart named one of two new undersecretaries to synod of bishops, body that studies major questions of doctrine
By AFP
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