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Dr. Sigal Shelach, CEO of JDC Israel, on November 19, 2019 at the soon to be renovated Jerusalem offices. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ToI)
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After cracking JDC glass ceiling, first woman CEO in Israel renovates operations
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
JDC Israel head Dr. Sigal Shelach leads 105-year-old Joint into an increasingly relevant and necessary role as the de facto start-up nation of welfare and social innovation
Dr. Sigal Shelach, CEO of JDC Israel, on November 19, 2019 at the soon to be renovated Jerusalem offices. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ToI)
December 6, 2019, 3:26 am
After cracking JDC glass ceiling, first woman CEO in Israel renovates operations
JDC Israel head Dr. Sigal Shelach leads 105-year-old Joint into an increasingly relevant and necessary role as the de facto start-up nation of welfare and social innovation
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Jodi Kantor's new book 'She Said,' written with her New York Times colleague Megan Twohey, gives readers an inside look at the reporting of the Harvey Weinstein story and others integral to the #MeToo movement. (Martin Schoeller/70 Faces Media Montage)
October 13, 2019, 6:40 pm
Jodi Kantor on what’s changed since the Weinstein story transformed #MeToo
The New York Times journalist helped launch the women’s movement into a global phenomenon. Now, her new book provides a surprising behind the scenes look at how it all began
By Emily Burack
A copy of 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls'. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)
October 4, 2019, 1:05 pm
Turkey rules ‘Rebel Girls’ children’s book be treated as porn
Banning sale to under-18s, Istanbul says feminist bestseller could have a ‘detrimental influence’ on young people
By AFP
A Saudi woman displays her new driver's license in 2018. (Saudi Information Ministry/ via AP)
July 28, 2019, 3:20 am
Rising from ashes of Arab Spring, women lead a first Muslim feminist revolution
The often violent upheaval sweeping the Middle East in the last decade has also spurred women to cling to gains earned as they fight, and rebuild, alongside men
By Ksenia Svetlova
Bernadette Lafont in Nelly Kaplan's 'A Very Curious Girl.' (YouTube)
May 6, 2019, 5:25 am
50 years later, this feminist witchy movie remains super relevant
With ‘A Very Curious Girl,’ filmmaker Nelly Kaplan presents an extremely timely vision of feminine liberation — one even the censors could not repress
By Rokhl Kafrissen
Tomtom founder Mindy Abovitz also co-founded the Hit Like a Girl contest. (Brad Heck)
April 28, 2019, 6:34 am
Founder of female-forward drum empire encourages musicians to ‘Hit Like a Girl’
Tom Tom magazine head Mindy Abovitz is hitting back at a male-dominated area of the music industry by spotlighting women percussionists
By Micah B. Rubin
Close-up of the morning blessings, in which a female worshiper thanks God for making her a woman, and not a man, from the 1480 'women's' prayer book scribed by Rabbi Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol in Italy, seen on March 3, 2019 at the National Library of Israel. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
March 8, 2019, 2:55 pm
The Jewish egalitarian revolution that almost was in Renaissance Italy
15th century ‘feminist’ prayer books open a window into the Jewish world’s female scribes, first published poetess, and first evidence of women-centric prayer
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks to supporters during an election night watch party hosted by the New York State Democratic Committee, November 6, 2018, in New York, after being re-elected. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
January 17, 2019, 6:39 am
Inside Kirsten Gillibrand’s Saturday meeting with Jewish feminists
The talk, days before her announcement that she will run in 2020, took place at the apartment of Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a prominent feminist, author and co-founder of Ms. magazine
By Ben Sales
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
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