Senators To Saudis: Let Women Drive
A bipartisan group of 14 female U.S. senators wrote to the King of Saudi Arabia this week urging him to give the women of his kingdom the right to drive a care "once and for all." read more
View ArticleMajor Pay Gap For Reform Women Rabbis
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Despite movement’s stated commitment to equal pay, women earn as much as $43,000 less than their male colleagues.Forty years after Sally Priesand became the Reform movement’s...
View ArticleWill Western Wall Be ‘Source Of Unity?’
Helen Chernikoff Staff Writer Jewish Agency tasked with studying demands of women who want right to pray at holy site. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Natan Sharansky, the former...
View ArticleEl Al Faces Uproar Over Haredim’s Refusal To Sit Near Women
JTA Tel Aviv — For approximately a half hour at the beginning of her El Al Israel Airlines flight last week from New York to Tel Aviv, Elana Sztokman watched as the haredi Orthodox man seated next to...
View ArticleWomen’s Rabbinic Roles Are Accepted In Israel. Why Not Here?
Sharon Weiss-Greenberg Ever since the first exile of the Jewish people in 586 BCE, there have been multiple centers of Jewry. While most elements of Jewish life were centralized during the first...
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