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NYC Jewish women want to join all-male EMT group
November 29, 2011Most Orthodox Jewish women avoid touching men except direct relatives. They don’t sit next to men on buses or even at weddings. They have separate swimming hours at indoor pools. But for an emergency birth, Orthodox Jewish women will usually turn to the all-male volunteer ambulance corps known as Hatzolah. jewish – Yahoo! News Search [...]
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Study: What (religious) women want
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Slavery, Trafficking and People of Faith: In Our Own Backyards and Beyond
December 6, 2010I’m blogging from Human Rights Under Fire: A Jewish Call to Action, Rabbis for Human Rights – North America’s third conference on Judaism and human rights. Plenary: Slavery, Trafficking and People of Faith: In Our Own Backyards and Beyond This session features Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, Jewish Board of Family and Children’
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“Comedienne,” Interrupted
November 17, 2010Tina Fey strode onstage at the Kennedy Center last week to accept the Mark Twain Award. During her acceptance speech, she blistered Sarah Palin. She said: “And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women – except, of course –those who will end up, you [...]
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New deal on moratorium: This administration’s worst move yet?
November 14, 2010With the new deal, the US might have given up all leverage over Jerusalem for the next two years, agreed to construction in Jerusalem (and ultimately, the rest of the West Bank), and seems to get nothing in return Like that women in a townhall meeting before the midterms, I am exhausted [...]
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Gathering the Waters: the Emerging Mikveh Movement in Israel
October 11, 2010I’m blogging today from Gathering the Waters, the mikveh conference. After lunch (which was tasty, and I got to sit at a table with a few ALEPH colleagues and also a few lovely people who aren’t, or aren’t yet, part of that world) there was a lunchtime session on the Emerging Mikveh Movement in Israel, [...]
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Madwomen
October 8, 2010On a lighter note, Jewish women in Hollywood are still a topic of discussion. In a recent Slate article Rachel Shukert gushes over the show madmen for its portrayal of… Jewish women. Although there seems to be some breakthrough in how Jewish women are shown in popular media, somehow, writers – many of them Jewish [...]
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High Court: No sidewalk gender segregation
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Feminists march in Mea Shearim
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This absurd act of rebellion: why did we publicly violate the law (interview with Klil Zisapel)
September 8, 2010Poet Klil Zisapel was one of twelve Israeli women that took a group of Palestinian women and children on a fun outing to Tel Aviv, knowingly violating the Entry into Israel Act. In an interview to Promised Land Blog Klil explains her own reasons for taking part in this initiative, and shares [...]
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Police Recommend Pressing Charges Against Anat Hoffman; Rabinowitz Decides Who Is Kosher Enough to Carry a Sefer Torah
September 6, 2010This just in from Women of the Wall, in reference to Hoffman’s arrest in July: This week brought with it more attempts to vilify Women of the Wall and protect the Western Wall as accessible for ultra-Orthodox prayer exclusively. The Jerusalem Police recommended this week that the Ministry of Justice press charges against Anat Hoffman [...]
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Anat Hoffmans Women of the Wall Arrested as Police Wrest Torah from Her Arms
July 13, 2010Another day of shame for an Israeli religious establishment and its police lackeys who violently wrested a sacred Torah scroll from the arms of a praying Jewish woman, all because she had the temerity to demand that Jewish women be entitled to worship equally with men at one of Judaism’s holiest sites. Anat Hoffman, director [...]
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Women of the Walls Anat Hoffman Arrested as Police Wrest Torah from Her Arms
July 13, 2010Another day of shame for an Israeli religious establishment and its police lackeys who violently wrested a sacred Torah scroll from the arms of a praying Jewish woman, all because she had the temerity to demand that Jewish women be entitled to worship equally with men at one of Judaism’s holiest sites. Anat Hoffman, director [...]
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Must feminists and gays put leftism first?
June 21, 2010Are you a feminist or a leftist? Do you cheer women who break glass ceilings or are you frustrated with the attention paid to the persecution of Muslim women and the rise of Conservative women? Feminists like Laura Bush and Sarah Palin had little difficulty celebrating the success of Hillary Clinton. But the same cannot [...]
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Wanted: Israeli Amazons to Overpower Hezbollah Women
June 21, 2010The Shin Bet is resorting to Yediot want ads seeking Israeli Amazons (not books, but women) willing to volunteer to women-handle any female Hezbollahniks with chutzpah enough to think they’ll break the Gaza blockade on the Lebanese ship/s about to set sail: Security Organization seeks WOMEN with great physical strength and motivation to evacuate women [...]