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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Jewish feminism

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
Supporters of Malky Berkowitz say they are launching a “mikvah strike” — a form of protest that leverages Jewish sexual purity rituals as a pressure tactic for Malky's husband to give her a divorce. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg. Images courtesy of Adina Sash via JTA)
March 8, 2024, 4:01 am
US Orthodox women activists pledge ‘sex strike’ in protest of religious divorce refusal
Form of protest leveraging Jewish sexual purity rituals as a pressure tactic aimed at supporting Malky Berkowitz, 29, whose husband has refused her a ‘get’ for four years
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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
Barbie doll creator Ruth Handler, left, gets a kiss from Kristi Cooke, an actress dressed as a Barbie doll, during the 35th birthday celebration for the doll at FAO Schwarz in New York City on March 9, 1994. (AP Photo/Robert Clark)
June 6, 2023, 3:24 am
Way before icon Barbie got the Hollywood treatment, she was ‘born’ with Jewish roots
From her creation by unconventional entrepreneur Ruth Handler to her inclusivity and ability to adapt with the times, the famous doll bears some trademarks of the Tribe
By Cathryn J. Prince
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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
Rachel Jackson, soferet, or scribe, writing a Megillat Esther. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Jackson)
March 7, 2023, 10:22 pm
In Orthodox communities where women don’t read Torah, Purim offers rare opportunity
Over the decades, women’s Megillah readings have moved from cutting-edge to squarely within the norm, marking the growth of Orthodox feminism and its expression in Jewish ritual
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur. (Courtesy of MJLF)
June 6, 2022, 3:50 pm
France has 500,000 Jews and only 5 women rabbis, but this group wants to change that
Last month saw the second Daughters of Rashi conference, a cross-denominational event focusing on expanding women’s roles in Judaism — and for participants, it’s a call to action
By HANNAH STEINKOPF-FRANK
Poet, translator and liturgist Marcia Falk (Cathleen Maclearie)
April 14, 2022, 11:59 pm
Jewish feminism ‘foremother’ Marcia Falk publishes lyrical haggadah
Pathbreaking poet and liturgist offers innovative take on text by highlighting biblical Exodus over rabbinic commentary. Here, she discusses her feminist and spiritual awakenings
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
Beate Sirota Gordon at American Japanese Festival in 1938. (Beate Sirota Photo Gallery/ via JTA)
January 6, 2021, 4:07 am
Jewish feminist Beate Sirota Gordon changed women’s rights in Japan forever
A new children’s book shows how her upbringing and bit of good, old-fashioned chutzpah helped a 22-year-old woman change a country’s destiny, and then keep mum about it for decades
By Maddy Albert
Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, left, and his wife, Chana, started a groundbreaking program for Orthodox women to answer questions of Jewish law. (Courtesy of Nishmat/ via JTA)
December 25, 2020, 7:28 pm
Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, pioneer of women’s leadership in Orthodoxy, dies
Henkin’s status as a Jewish legal authority lent weight to his support for expanded female roles, while his moderation helped the changes take root in the mainstream community
By Shira Hanau
Letty Cottin Pogrebin at the annual Making Trouble/Making History luncheon by the Jewish Women's Archive, March 18, 2012. (CC-SA-2.0/ Joan Roth)
November 22, 2020, 8:47 am
Pioneering feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin is bracing for womankind’s next battle
With the Supreme Court tilted sharply to the right, the veteran activist says ‘change will come through legislation’
By Hannah Dreyfus
'Monologues from the Makom' is a collection of essays exploring female sexuality in the Orthodox world. (Illustration by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)
August 24, 2020, 4:16 am
Jewish ‘Vagina Monologues’ bares Orthodox taboos on women’s sexuality and gender
Contributors want women — and men — to know their struggles with same-sex attraction, lack of sex ed, and sexual assault are common, although willfully overlooked by community
By Josefin Dolsten
Tracey Ullman portrays Betty Friedan in the FX series 'Mrs. America.' (Amazon Prime/ via JTA)
May 8, 2020, 4:29 pm
Locked down? Open up to… the Jewish mothers of gender rights in ‘Mrs. America’
Now on Hulu for US viewers, FX series chronicles the rise and fall of the Equal Rights Amendment with names like Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and ‘Moses of feminism’ Betty Friedan
By Linda Maleh
Dr. Lior Baruch. (Irene Axman)
March 8, 2020, 3:58 am
Doctor sees ‘feminist medicine’ as cure for medical gender discrimination
Israeli physician Lior Baruch wants med students and researchers to know that women can manifest different symptoms from men — often news to 21st century health care professionals
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
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