Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, Author at Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

January 8, 2020 6:56 pm·

Jewish women are being erased

Another Jewish year is coming to a close. Antisemitism is still rising. Politics in the UK, Israel, and US are a mess. Left and right,…

August 20, 2019 11:11 am·

Hope comes from working together

Originally published in the Jewish Chronicle They say that hospitals and auto-repair shops are the great equalisers of Israeli society, where you’ll find Israelis of…

August 18, 2019 1:12 pm·

I’m Israeli. Netanyahu Is Wrong. He Should Let Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib Visit

Originally published in The Forward This morning, it was reported that Israel would be denying entry to two U.S. Congresswomen, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib,…

April 30, 2019 6:59 pm·

You cannot disconnect Passover and Zionism

It is perhaps one of the most brilliant — and diabolical — tactics, to take a part of someone’s tradition, discard the rest, and use…

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.…

February 22, 2019 4:24 am·

BEING THE CHANGE: Professional women in Halacha

Originally published in the Jerusalem Post, Magazine, February 21, 2019 Part II in the series on the phenomenon of women’s leadership and learning in Orthodoxy…

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 13, 2018 12:09 am·

When in Rome, remember its persecuted Jews

I’d wanted to go to Italy for years. Decades. I made it clear to my husband that we’d be going for our 20th anniversary or…

December 13, 2018 12:00 am·

Mourning the murder of my friend, Ari Fuld

I struggled over what to write this month in this column written by an American Israeli for UK Jews. Should I write about the High…

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…

November 10, 2018 11:05 pm·

My City

Originally published in the Jerusalem Post Magazine Nov 9, 2018 For years, when people asked where I lived, I inwardly cringed. I hesitated. Sometimes, I…

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…