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Heather Booth, executive director, Americans for Financial Reform, at podium, cheers during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2010, to discuss financial reform legislation. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The Jewish backstory of the radical gang from Chicago’s Women’s Liberation Union
By Penny Schwartz
Four feminist icons — Heather Booth, Amy Kesselman, Vivian Rothstein and Naomi Weisstein — are about to get fresh groupies with the publication of Joyce Antler’s new book
Heather Booth, executive director, Americans for Financial Reform, at podium, cheers during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2010, to discuss financial reform legislation. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
December 14, 2018, 2:33 am
The Jewish backstory of the radical gang from Chicago’s Women’s Liberation Union
Four feminist icons — Heather Booth, Amy Kesselman, Vivian Rothstein and Naomi Weisstein — are about to get fresh groupies with the publication of Joyce Antler’s new book
By Penny Schwartz
The cover of the the November 2, 2018 edition of Di Tzeitung on the Pittsburgh massacre (Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt/Twitter, via JTA)
November 2, 2018, 11:49 am
US Hasidic newspaper omits photos of Pittsburgh’s female victims
Editor Di Tzeitung says decision to only include pictures of male victims of synagogue massacre reflects standard practice
By JTA
In this June 11, 2017 file photo, Bette Midler arrives at the Tony Awards in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
October 6, 2018, 6:07 pm
Bette Midler apologizes for n-word tweet, says was angered by Kavanuagh probe
Entertainer deletes post after explaining she was quoting song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono as angry response to brief FBI probe into Supreme Court nominee
By Agencies
A column in Teen Vogue unflatteringly compares policing of minority communities in the United States and Israel. (Lily Hong/Flickr via JTA)
July 20, 2018, 8:16 am
For Teen Vogue, bashing Israel has become the fashion
Magazine unfavorably compares policies toward Palestinians with US police violence against unarmed minorities
By Charles Dunst
In Kafr Qara, Amna Kanana, founder of Awareness 4U, explains how to prepare for Ramadan, June 2018. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
June 6, 2018, 3:11 pm
In Ramadan tour of Kafr Qara, guide says it’s a bittersweet life for Arab women
Social activist Amna Kanana upholds conservative Muslim values and traditions — while pushing for women to have careers and status before marriage
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Florence Kennedy, left, and Sandra Hochman, front right, in a screenshot from 'Year of the Woman.' (Courtesy)
April 24, 2018, 4:38 am
Uproarious 81-year-old documentarian’s ’73 feminist film still terribly relevant
Octogenarian poet, author, and filmmaker Sandra Hochman stuns in real life and in film ‘Year of the Woman,’ about her antics and advocacy at the 1972 Democratic convention
By Jordan Hoffman
Golda Meir, women soldiers, religious feminists and 'Wonder Woman' Gal Gadot represent the various ways women in Israel and America have seen themselves reflected one in the other since 1948. (JTA collage)
April 19, 2018, 8:18 am
What women in Israel and the West have learned from seven decades of cooperation
Americans are inspired by powerful Israeli role models, and in return laid the foundation for an Israeli feminist movement fighting sexualization and wage disparity
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Lior Tal Sadeh
April 5, 2018, 3:25 pm
Lior Tal Sadeh
More than four mothers
Erasing Bilhah and Zilpah, no less, from our consciousness indicates how excluded women are
Laura Ben-David
March 11, 2018, 1:59 pm
Laura Ben-David
When a Haredi man asked me to change my plane seat
No one was inconvenienced. Everyone was respected. Why not make the effort?
Gal Gdot attends the 90th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images/AFP)
March 9, 2018, 4:43 pm
Gal Gadot says feminism is equality, not ‘bra burning’
Israeli ‘Wonder Woman’ star calls for equal pay and opportunities in Hollywood after a year dominated by sexual harassment scandals
By TOI staff
Dr. Nancy Strichman discussing her findings with attendees. (Gal Mosenson)
March 8, 2018, 4:02 pm
At Tel Aviv symposium, women come together to plan Israel’s feminist future
For International Women’s Day, NCJW and the Dafna Fund sponsor conference to reveal new study on women’s status in the Holy Land — and discuss fresh steps forward
By Tracy Frydberg
Bracha Goldstein
March 8, 2018, 12:22 pm
Bracha Goldstein
I am Woman — Please don’t make me roar
I teach my daughter how to listen, and I teach my son the same thing; I no longer need to roar
Female rabbis said the themes related to gender in the Purim narrative take on an added significance in the wake of the #MeToo movement. (Lior Zaltzman/JTA)
February 28, 2018, 4:45 pm
In a #MeToo era, Purim to be celebrated differently by Jewish feminists
In recent years, new readings rehabilitate Vashti and ponder the tensions between Esther’s subservient role in the king’s household and the power she asserts as queen
By Josefin Dolsten
Sara Kupfer
February 26, 2018, 3:28 pm
Sara Kupfer
Being religious is a strike against me
It is not easy, but I am an empowered Orthodox Jew living in the 21st century, and I make my voice heard
Alice Shalvi, Israeli professor and educator, poses for a photo at her home in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 18, 2018, 5:29 am
Dr. Alice Shalvi: Equal education of Orthodox women is changing Israeli society
The fight for parity in Israel is only just getting started, says the 91-year-old champion of religious feminism
By Tracy Frydberg
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