Posts Tagged: Orthodox Jewish Women
When Fighting Antisemitism, You Can’t Pick and Choose
JNS.org - It was one of those incidents that you never expect will happen to you, but when it does, it changes your life irrevocably. On...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Equality for Orthodox Jewish Women
There was an audible gasp as she entered the room. Flanked by bodyguards, with her white gloves prominent, Ruth Bader Ginsburg took a seat next...
UK Newspaper Distorts Positive New York Times Story on Jews
The New York Times’ reporting on Israel and Jewish affairs is regularly critiqued by us and many others, but in this case, a story, penned...
#MeToo and the Torah
The Chassidic masters say that in order to ascend to the highest heights, it is sometimes necessary to descend into the depths. The #MeToo movement...
Petri Dish for a Diverse Hi-Tech Israeli Future: Jerusalem’s Hadassah Academic College
JNS.org - Twenty-year-old Balqis Amireh would never have had the chance to study biotechnology if it weren’t for Hadassah Academic College (HAC). And 21-year-old Audelia Sebag...
What Is True Modesty?
In the world we live in, there seems to be little room for modesty. Where absolutely every nook and cranny of the human body is...
Becoming Orthodox and Kicking the Clothes-Shopping Habit
When I tell my daughter-in-law, Devorah, who has only known me for five years, that I used to love shopping, she finds it hard to...
Why the Fuss Over Ban on Orthodox Jewish Women Driving Cars?
There has been much neurotic outcry about the Belz Chasidic Yeshiva in London (note, not in Israel) for issuing a ban on women driving and...
Frum Fashionista: New Magazine Targets Style Conscious Orthodox Jewish Women
JNS.org - Cool weather trends. Pop patterns. Couture for a cause. It could be Vogue or Elle. But it's Hadar Magazine. In English, hadar means "glorious." This new...
Women of the Wall Don’t Want to Compromise
JNS.org - Women of the Wall faced a tough choice this Rosh Chodesh. Though I don't agree with their goals, they could have finally been...
Proud to Be a Jew and a Woman of the Wall
JNS.org - On Rosh Chodesh at the Western Wall (Kotel), when Orthodox men and women protest, spit, and curse at me, I am saddened by...
Orthodox Jewish Women Share Tricks of the Entrepreneurial Trade at Inaugural Conference
Chaya Appel-Fishman hatched the idea for a network of Jewish businesswomen at age 16, when she rented a college campus and created a conglomerate of...
From Long Island to Israel: Orthodox Woman Firefighter
Shoshana Weiner of Long Island, New York has been a volunteer firefighter for 12 years. In addition to volunteer firefighting, Weiner's day job includes her work...
Late Night with Jew In The City (INTERVIEW)
Contrary to initial assumptions, it was surprising to learn from the eponymous blogger behind the Jew In The City that the website's moniker is NOT...
