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Religious feminist Alice Shalvi was a lifelong revolutionary - editorial

Teaching girls Talmud was unheard of in 1970s Israel. Shalvi did it anyway, and she didn't stop there.

Alice Shalvi
Alice Shalvi

Israeli professor, Jewish feminism educator Alice Shalvi dies at 96

Reading a torah scroll

Law firm releases report on JOFA after allegations made against sex-guru founder

  The Fem Forward 2023 cohort in Morocco

FemForward kicks off first Moroccan, Israeli cohort in Casablanca


NY lawmaker pushes back against anti-Israel activist's supporters

“This is not a matter of opinion. It’s all there in Sarsour’s own words — her Tweets and the things she has told the press and said on stage"

Assemblyman Hikind pushes back against Sarsour’s supporters

Learn from Islam

Perhaps one day a woman will be appointed not just to an administrative position, but rather to serve as a full-fledged rabbinical judge.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks next to Palestinian women in Jerusalem's Old City

Sobel + 4: The uncelebrated anniversary

The Jerusalem Post

A (religious) woman’s place

The controversial sentiments about women in the army as expressed by some leading national-religious rabbis recently might indicate a new culture war.

IDF women soldiers marching near Jerusalem, 1969

The hijacking of the feminist movement

The State of Israel has had a sensitivity to women’s rights and to women’s contributions since its founding. Historically, and today, women have occupied the highest echelons of Israel’s government.

People hold placards during an anti-Israel protest in central Berlin in July 2014. The placard reads ‘Women murderers = Israel.’

Why must women choose between feminism and Zionism, but not any other ‘ism’?

There are many countries and movements throughout the world that treat women as second-class citizens. Israel is not among them.

‘AS THE only democracy in the Middle East, Israel’s legal guarantee of rights has meant that women play crucial roles in all aspects of Israeli society.’ Gold Meir during the 1973 war.

Where is the outcry from Western feminists?

You know, continents where women are still yammering about glass ceilings at corporations and harassment by drunken boys on campus trying to cop a feel.

A PALESTINIAN woman paints a mural in support of Palestinians committing stabbing attacks against Israelis, in the southern Gaza Strip in November

Highest ranking woman in IDF awarded Chaim Herzog Prize

Named for Israel’s sixth president, the Chaim Herzog Prize was established by his family following his death in 1997, in order to perpetuate his memory and his legacy.

Then-Israeli ambassador to the UN Chaim Herzog addresses the General Assembly condemning Resolution 3379, equating Zionism with racism, on November 10, 1975

A vision of Kotel future: part two

The Jerusalem Post

Denominationalism is okay, suppressing it is not

The Jerusalem Post