feminism

Yeshiva University Dean Wants to Reverse Gains in Women’s Torah Learning

My social media has been abuzz this past week with the commentary on a recent article published by Rabbi Mordechai ...

Looking Back On Abortion

Last week, a new study on abortion found that while the decision is hard for most women, no matter class, ...

Calling All Secret Feminists!

There is a place for every man and woman in feminism. Furthermore, there is a place for every Jewish woman ...

For Tisha B’Av, A Feminist Reading of Lamentations

For those of us engaged in the lifelong passion and struggle of learning Torah with a feminist consciousness, writing it ...

Yes, She Wore a Kippah, But Not to the Kotel

She wore a kippah as she opened her gemara. We were a somewhat diverse group–I come from an Orthodox background, ...

Survival of the Self: Continuously Cultivating an Independent Identity

Like everyone else, I balance different aspects of my identity: American, Jew, New Yorker, educator, feminist, mother, white, spouse, runner, ...

Born Jewish or Not, You Matter

The way I look — my golden complexion and the abundance of ringlet curls on my head — combined with the difference in my upbringing have always challenged my place in society and even in the Jewish community.

Feminism Comes in Many Different Forms

“Why don’t you learn to read the megillah,” asked my husband a few months before Purim.I thought about it for ...

Memory and Desire

 “April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.” —T.S. ...

Modesty – How Everyone Gets It Wrong, and Why We Need to Get it Right

The use of tzniut, modesty, as a cudgel against Jewish women has been well documented in the JOFA Journal, conferences, ...