Women in Judaism

February 11, 2021 4:31 am·

State-Sanctioned Abuse: Does a woman need to nearly die to earn her freedom?

Three women made headlines in the past week. Each was abused by her husband. One is dead. One nearly died. And the other is still…

July 14, 2020 6:42 pm·

God listened to women. Why doesn’t Boro Park Hatzolah?

The Daughters of Zelophehad. (illustration from the 1908 Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons, public domain) The gloves are off in…

March 9, 2020 11:10 pm·

Will civil courts be the salvation of chained Jewish women?

When Orthodox rabbis drag their feet and prolong divorce proceedings for what can be years, Jewish women turn to civil law to sidestep the religious…

February 6, 2020 11:14 pm·

Who’s a better female role model: Jlo or Benny Friedman?

I’ve spent the past days thinking of two videos that made the rounds. They could not be more different, and yet the messaging of both…

January 9, 2020 11:31 pm·

Torah learning is for women: Reflections on the first-ever women’s Siyum HaShas event

What does one wear to the world’s first women’s Siyum HaShas event? The question I posed on social media was a joke, a play on…

December 19, 2019 11:29 am·

Our House is on fire

When a house is on fire, do we say, “It’s just in the kitchen, I’m sure it will stop there”? When a house is on…

September 18, 2019 11:24 am·

Not everyone wants her face plastered on a billboard

(Yamina campaign posters featuring the party head, Ayelet Shaked, outside a Jerusalem polling station, September 17, 2019. (Anne Gordon/The Times of Israel) This season’s elections…

July 25, 2019 11:38 am·

Something’s rotten in the state of Orthodoxy

Men’s access to the grave of Rabbi Yosef Caro zt”l, in Tsfat, Israel. The men are able to draw close enough to even kiss the…

April 2, 2019 2:24 pm·

Drums of Extremism

Recently, a young bride played the drums at her wedding. Fully dressed in her bridal gown, not singing, she played on stage with the band.…

December 14, 2018 10:24 am·

A service for women by women – in a man’s world.

Originally published in The Jerusalem Post, Magazine December 14, 2018 “Israel is more advanced than New York.” So declared Judge Ruchie Freier, the world’s first…

December 12, 2018 3:33 pm·

In case you didn’t know …

Hi, I generally use this site for my articles (and I’m derelict in posting them, I know) but I wanted to reach out and let…

September 5, 2018 2:19 pm·

Why I stay Orthodox

“Why do you stay Orthodox?” That was the question posed to me the other day when I wrote an emotional Facebook post. I had spent…

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