Women & Feminism

Last Sunday, March 22nd, a march was held in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY in order to raise awareness of the ...

By the time I finally bought my first bikini, I was sixteen years old. As a chubby kid who had ...

“You should volunteer to lead the Orthodox minyan, prayer services, you have the opportunity to make a Kiddush HaShem, sanctification ...

Over the generations women did not wait until the night of the Seder to show their commitment to upholding tradition. ...

Little girls don’t usually dress up as Vashti for Purim. Esther is the heroine, after all, and those poofy princess ...

I can clearly remember where I was sitting, in the midst of my Bible class during my final semester at ...

Last month, my daughter celebrated her Bat Mitzvah. In the months before her Bat Mitzvah we moved from the Boston-area ...

This question has hounded me since childhood – both in the secular world where I grew up and in the ...

This past Simchat Torah, my mother began planning her synagogue’s first women’s mincha, afternoon service. She was inspired by the ...

This past Shabbat as I walked to synagogue for mincha, afternoon services, I was thinking about how I would introduce ...

I can trace my choice not to go to rabbinical school to a particular moment in time. Rabbi Matthew Cutler ...

The experience of being a self-identifying Orthodox Feminist Jewish woman on a college campus can be simultaneously empowering and alienating. ...