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Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks during her farewell ceremony, at the Ministry of Justice offices in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 5, 2019, 10:06 am
Shaked rejects rabbi’s comments: Women can do everything, including lead a party
Former justice minister responds after prominent Rabbi Shlomo Aviner says politics has ‘no place for the female role’ in explaining opposition to her leading the religious right
By TOI staff
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked attends a Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee meeting in the Israeli parliament on July 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 4, 2019, 6:43 pm
Rejecting rabbi’s comments, Jewish Home says it backs women in politics
Prominent Rabbi Shlomo Aviner says politics has ‘no place for the female role’ in explaining opposition to Ayelet Shaked leading the religious right
By TOI staff
Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel, laughs before addressing the crowd outside the state Capitol building, Tuesday, January 1, 2019 in Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
February 22, 2019, 5:46 am
How Judaism inspires the first openly gay politician in Michigan state office
Setting up a hate crimes division, fighting for LGBTQ rights and helping immigrants, Dana Nessel says she stands up for people like her grandparents who fled the Holocaust
By Josefin Dolsten
Screen capture from video of Lebanon's Interior Minister Raya El Hassan, in charge of security. (YouTube)
February 6, 2019, 5:58 pm
In Arab world first, Lebanon names woman as minister in charge of security
Raya El Hassan is one of four women in a cabinet of 30, will be in charge of several agencies
By AP
In this November 6, 2008 photo, Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, is photographed outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)
November 7, 2018, 3:17 pm
Muslim women make US history with congressional wins
Democrats Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib headed to Congress after election that notched a series of wins for minority candidates
By TOI staff
Rezi Friedman campaigns at a cafe in Antwerp, Belgium, August 15, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
October 12, 2018, 2:19 pm
An Orthodox rabbi’s daughter wants to make political history in Belgium
At just 23, Rezi Friedman seeks to become the first haredi woman on the City Council, but struggles to blaze her own path in the shadow of her father’s extreme views
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Mindy Pollak at a university where then-Montreal mayoral candidate Valerie Plante was speaking, autumn of 2017. (Courtesy)
July 9, 2018, 3:13 am
Canada’s first female Hasidic politician may be bound for parliament
Trilingual Montreal borough councilor Mindy Pollak is courted by at least one federal party as a potential candidate in the next national election
By Robert Sarner
Ari Segal
May 23, 2018, 11:56 am
Ari Segal
Doing away with all-male negotiations
Women can pull us out of the current rut of zero-sum games in conflict resolution
Kathy Manning, second from left, attending a fund-raiser in Palm Beach, Florida, as chair of Jewish Federations of North America, March 8, 2010. (Courtesy of Hillel via JTA)
May 10, 2018, 7:52 am
Democratic primary winner is ex-chair of Jewish Federations
Kathy Manning of North Carolina is part of a surge of women running for office since Trump’s election to presidency
By JTA
In this Wednesday, January 17, 2018 photo, Victoria El-Khoury Zwein, a potential woman candidate in Lebanon's upcoming parliamentary elections, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Kempinski Summerland Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
January 21, 2018, 10:37 am
Lebanese women look for greater role in parliamentary elections
Just 4 women serve in the outgoing parliament elected in 2009, a flimsy 3% of country’s 128 lawmakers, among the lowest rates in the Middle East
By Sarah El Deeb
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, left, listens to the Vice-President in charge of environmental affairs Masoomeh Ebtekar while attending a conference on combating sand and dust storms, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, July 3, 2017 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 9, 2017, 2:10 pm
Iran’s Rouhani names two female vice presidents
Massoomeh Ebtekar will run women’s affairs and Laya Joneydi will be in charge of legal affairs, but no women in cabinet
By AFP
Jon Ossoff speaking to volunteers and supporters at a campaign office in Marietta, Georgia, April 18, 2017. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/via JTA)
June 20, 2017, 11:08 pm
Jon Ossoff’s secret weapon in tight Georgia race: Jewish moms and daughters
In what was a predominantly Republican area, a dark horse is putting up a fight in Tuesday’s election
By Ron Kampeas
Rachel Levmore
March 9, 2017, 1:31 pm
Rachel Levmore
Taking stock on Int’l Agunah Day 5777
Israel takes one step forward and then two giant steps back, when it comes to protecting women in rabbinic courts
Debbie Levy at the launch of her children's biography on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 'I Dissent.' (Courtesy Debbie Levy)
October 15, 2016, 5:19 am
Parents won’t object to reading this supreme tale to their kids
Author Debbie Levy pens children’s biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to illustrate how ‘change happens one disagreement at a time’
By Cathryn J. Prince
Israel's Yarden Gerbi points to the Israeli flag after defeating Japan's Miku Tashiro to win the bronze medal in the women's -63kg judo contest at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 9, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/Jack GUEZ)
September 29, 2016, 11:16 pm
5 feel-good stories from Israel in 5776
There’s plenty to celebrate as the Jewish state welcomes 5777, from achievements foreign to domestic
By Andrew Tobin
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