Women & Feminism

What can happen when we take mikvah out of the realm of the hidden, and bring it into a space ...

For millennia, it has been taken for granted that the place for Jewish women was in the home and in ...

As I flick through the pages of my pocket prayer book deliberating over which tunes to pick for Lecha Dodi ...

I know that attending the Yeshivat Maharat graduation is the “right thing to do” but it is easy to forget, ...

Ten years ago on Simchat Torah, three American friends and I walked from synagogue to synagogue in our North West London neighborhood, looking ...

This past week, I listened to a Public Radio interview with Humaira Awais Shahid, a Muslim woman who is a Pakistani ...

When I think about Shavuot, the first image that pops into my head is a mob of Israelites gathered at ...

This is a continuation of Friday’s post. In part 1, Bracha explained the background for the question and here she concludes ...

I have lived in Israel for most of my life. Many mitzvot are only relevant in the land of Israel, ...

Two years ago a number of parents in my community approached me for assistance. Their daughters would all become b’not ...

1. Do you have strong ideas and opinions?a. Yes b. No2. Do you share these ideas with others? a. Yes ...

In my previous post, I described seven frightening trends of religious radicalism in Israel threatening women’s well-being and in some cases ...