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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Ultra-orthodox women

'Pink Lady' film director Nir Bergman and screenwriter Mindi Ehrlich, at the Tallinn, Estonia film festival on November 23, 2024. (Courtesy, Tallinn Film Festival)
November 24, 2024, 9:42 pm
Israel’s Nir Bergman wins director’s prize in Tallinn
‘Pink Lady’ explores taboo gay male relationships in the ultra-Orthodox world
By Jessica Steinberg
Jewish influencer Ellie Zeiler (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg/via JTA)
September 20, 2024, 7:52 am
‘My life felt meaningless’: Jewish influencer swaps jet-setting for Jerusalem
Ellie Zeiler enrolls in a seminary for Orthodox young women in the capital and is set to focus her content on life as an observant Jew, becoming first major influencer to do so
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Supporters of Malky Berkowitz (Images courtesy of Adina Sash)
September 15, 2024, 12:47 am
New York woman at center of Orthodox ‘sex strike’ receives her divorce
Malky Berkowitz, who married her husband after a 15-minute in-person meeting, alleged he physically assaulted her and was sexually inappropriate with their three-year-old daughter
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Fraidy Reiss is the founder and executive director of Unchained At Last, a non-profit that’s been battling arranged and forced marriages for the past 12 years. (Photo copyright Susan Landman via JTA)
March 24, 2023, 4:23 am
A fake reality show trailer shines light on the real issue of US child marriage
Founded by a former Haredi woman, the organization Unchained at Last releases ‘Unseen Housewives’ to raise awareness that such arrangements are still legal in 43 states
By Jon Kalish
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
Esther Hecht, the emissary to Auckland, New Zealand, speaks at the annual conference for Chabad women emissaries in New Jersey, February 2023. (Courtesy of Chabad via JTA)
February 17, 2023, 4:17 am
Chabad women gather in the US once a year. The rest of the time, there’s Instagram
Over 4,000 of the Hasidic group’s emissaries from far-flung locales around the globe meet for annual event in NJ to share strategies and enjoy a moment of in-person connection
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Brooklyn Orthodox influencer Adina Miles-Sash, aka 'Flatbush Girl,' held a livestream event one Instagram on January 14, 2023, where a man flashed her and thousands of other participants. Some commenters blamed her for the incident, but many also supported her. (Courtesy via JTA)
January 20, 2023, 3:51 am
Orthodox influencer Flatbush Girl hunting man who flashed online session of 3,000
Adina Miles-Sash is looking to press charges against the possible serial flasher, and wants answers on why men in her religious circle aren’t condemning his behavior
By Jacob Henry
Students at an ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem on August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 2, 2023, 8:58 am
Haredim are fastest-growing population, will be 16% of Israelis by decade’s end
Group includes 1.28 million people in 2023; Haredi women increasingly joining workforce while men’s numbers stagnate; poverty rate twice as high as in general population
By Judah Ari Gross
Screenshots from Orthodox Instagram accounts that announced they would be shutting down after an anti-social media rally in New Jersey in June 2022. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)
July 3, 2022, 5:01 am
Orthodox women who built businesses, friendships online are being told to sign off
10 years after an ultra-Orthodox anti-internet rally filled a NY stadium to capacity, ladies are urged to attend similar gatherings pressuring them to give up their smart phones
By Jackie Hajdenberg
An aerial view of the town of Binyamina in northern Israel on April 12, 2008. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
February 20, 2022, 10:55 pm
In first, ultra-Orthodox woman tapped to lead a local religious council
Rivka Azriel to oversee religious services in Binyamina; will be the 2nd woman to ever hold such a position, but the 1st to be appointed by a cabinet minister
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter, of the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, lights a menorah during a public Hanukkah celebration and menorah lighting ceremony in South Philadelphia, on Sunday, December 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Ryan Collerd)
December 19, 2021, 3:32 am
Orthodox Jewish women’s leadership is growing – and it’s not all about rabbis
Roles for women are growing and changing rapidly, with many serving as guides to Jewish law, professionally trained rabbis’ wives and congregational scholars
By Michal Raucher
Illustrative: Sarah Rosenberg, an ordination program student, studies in the beit midrash, a space for learning, at Yeshivat Maharat in the Bronx borough of New York, on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
December 19, 2021, 3:30 am
Despite tradition, more Orthodox Jewish women are getting ordained
Women attempting to become rabbis or spiritual leaders face an uphill battle; in US, around half a dozen ordained women serve in Modern Orthodox synagogues
By Ilan Ben Zion and Yonat Shimron
Chochmat Nashim co-founder Shoshana Keats Jaskol. (Courtesy)
December 5, 2021, 10:40 pm
Seeking exposure in religious media, Orthodox women photograph themselves
As an extreme ‘modesty’ trend goes mainstream and the female form is omitted or removed from photos and ads, rights group Chochmat Nashim launches a photo bank so women can be seen
By Cathryn J. Prince
Orthodox Jewish runner Beatie Deutsch. (Projects in Torah/ via JTA)
August 1, 2021, 3:05 am
Adidas chooses an American-Israeli Orthodox mom as the face of a new campaign
Beatie Deutsch appeared out of nowhere in 2016 to become a top female runner globally — all while racing in modest attire; now a top sporting brand wants to showcase her faith
By Bonnie Azoulay
Julia Haart with her children Batsheva, Miriam and Shlomo in Atlanta in 2002. (Courtesy Elite World Group)
July 24, 2021, 6:44 am
Julia Haart of ‘My Unorthodox Life’: ‘I love being a Jew, I hate fundamentalism’
In the 2nd installment of a JTA interview, the fashionista who has roiled the Orthodox Jewish world with her new reality show fires back at critics, saying she loves her tradition
By Shira Hanau
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