Vanishing Women

July 16, 2023 1:04 pm·

Haredi publications’ new offense: Erasing a fallen Israeli Jewish female soldier

It’s time to see ultra-Orthodox erasure of women for what it is: disrespect and devaluation of worthy human beings Staff Sgt. Ohad Dahan, 20 (left),…

November 19, 2022 12:24 am·

Segregation would endanger religious women in Israel

I have lived in the epicenter of Jewish religious extremism for 15 years and I’ve been writing about what I witness there since 2013. And…

December 7, 2020 8:10 pm·

Seal of Respect: Because that Orthodox extremism isn’t going to fight itself

Dearest Readers, You have been with me – us, Chochmat Nashim (the organization I co-founded to push back extremism) – as we followed, documented, and…

November 11, 2020 5:24 pm·

When women’s names can’t be on Israeli signs

(Photo:Getty Images) “I didn’t move to Israel to live under the Taliban.” I said this to the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of Women…

September 25, 2020 9:52 am·

Where the streets have no (female) names

Sign and graffiti designating women’s and men’s sides of the stairs, plus graffiti saying, ‘Passage for the immodest is forbidden.’ (Alisa Coleman) I have been…

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…

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 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,…

December 30, 2019 12:04 pm·

The erasure of women has a deadly impact

In Israel, a man rides a bike down a busy street. Instead of passing the slow moving bus before him, he trails closely behind it.…

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…

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