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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

religious women

Elke Bentley, 18, completed the study of the Babylonian Talmud in just two and a half years. (Courtesy Elke Bentley via JTA)
July 29, 2024, 8:34 pm
Teenage girl goes through entire Talmud in 2.5 years, breaking gender and speed norms
Amid an upswell of women in a typically male pursuit, Elke Bentley took advantage of newly available resources and a changing landscape to achieve her goal
By Jackie Hajdenberg
(Screenshot via Twitter/Design by Jackie Hajdenberg)
September 17, 2022, 1:28 am
Fake toes for sale? Ad for Orthodox women raises questions on modesty gone too far
As debate rages over whether the offer was serious or a prank, some say the fact no one can be sure is itself the problem
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Left to right, US president Joe Biden, President Isaac Herzog, singer Yuval Dayan and singer Ran Dankner during a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 16, 2022, 8:32 am
Israeli singer defends refusal to shake Biden’s hand on religious grounds
‘Those who say I have no respect should apologize to my parents,’ says Yuval Dayan, who claims she repeatedly informed staff at president’s residence of her beliefs
By ToI Staff and JTA
Left to right, US president Joe Biden, President Isaac Herzog, singer Yuval Dayan and singer Ran Dankner during a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 15, 2022, 7:02 am
Israeli pop star shows fist-bumping Biden how to avoid physical contact
Religious singer declines to shake hand of president for reasons of modesty, leaving leader of the free world hanging amid his own half-hearted attempt to keep away from others
By CALEB GUEDES-REED
Illustrative: Female soldiers of the Caracal Battalion, November 2007. (Yoni Markovitzki/IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)
January 3, 2022, 10:23 am
IDF to open female-only combat platoon to accommodate religious servicewomen
Unit to be incorporated into one of the existing mixed-gender battalions; seminaries have reportedly made clear women want to serve if religious obstacles can be overcome
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Rabbanit Jenna Englender dances with the Torah during her graduation ceremony from Yeshivat Maharat in New York, June 17, 2019. (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/Maharat/via JTA)
December 22, 2019, 8:54 am
10 years after launch of first yeshiva for women clergy, has anything changed?
32 of the 33 graduates of the Orthodox Yeshivat Maharat have jobs, but though some liberal synagogues will give them pulpit positions they still can’t count toward a prayer quorum
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative: Jewish Orthodox women study Talmud at Kibbutz of Migdal Oz religious study seminary on May 23, 2013. (FLASH90 / Gershon Elinson)
December 12, 2019, 12:47 pm
Talmud study is mostly a boys’ club. This Orthodox woman wants to change that
Michelle Farber has taught her all-female class a page a day for the last 7 1/2 years as part of the Daf Yomi cycle, and on Jan. 5 will host first major women’s completion ceremony
By Ben Sales
Candidates for regional and local council chairman of Israeli municipalities in the West Bank (From L-R) Yael Ben Yashar, Ruti Spitzer and Sosh Adar. (Ron Luba, courtesy, courtesy)
October 19, 2018, 11:19 am
In the land of the forefathers, some female settlers challenge the patriarchy
Shosh Adar, Yael Ben Yashar and Ruti Spitzer are testing the extent of gender equality in Israeli communities in the West Bank, where men have long dominated the political arena
By Jacob Magid
Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
July 24, 2018, 1:03 pm
Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
Why I stay Orthodox
I believe in God and Torah and I know the difference between Jewish law and cultural distortion
Rachel Freier, center, is the protagonist of '93Queen.' (Julieta Cervantes/via JTA)
July 18, 2018, 12:51 am
An all-female Orthodox ambulance corps gets a film of its own
‘Queens93,’ a film documenting Rachel Freier’s perseverance in opening a women’s alternative to the men-only Jewish emergency medical services, hits theaters July 25
By Curt Schleier
Amihai Zippor
July 12, 2018, 2:37 pm
Amihai Zippor
Rabbi Riskin & Rabbi Brovender in conversation
Two revolutionary Torah leaders reminisce about how they changed the world — and predict the future (women rabbis, anyone?)
Nancy Strichman
July 9, 2018, 3:31 pm
Nancy Strichman
No vote, no voice
Denying political representation to over half a million Haredi women in Israel is unacceptable in 2018
Rachel Stomel
May 11, 2018, 12:57 pm
Rachel Stomel
Defying conventions
When Religious Zionist rabbis discuss women’s roles in shul, childbirth, and feminism — in a woman-free zone
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
Karen Miller Jackson
April 27, 2018, 6:40 pm
Karen Miller Jackson
80 women teach Torah
It’s plain math: create more positions for female scholars of Jewish texts, and increase the potential reach of Judaism
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