Category
empowerment
Yes, I can
I have a wish that our eloquent new president will have the audacity to tell the nation that, for most of us, 99 percent of our happiness is in our own hands.
Suad Abu Siam turns sorrow into power
Sitting in a nondescript hotel conference room, Abu Siam and five others described challenges faced as Israeli women. Among them, no one seemed both more foreign and yet more immediate than Abu Siam, who appeared dressed in colorful Muslim garb sparkling with jewelry, covered from head to toe so that only her beautiful and expressive face was visible. She appeared alternately angry and sad, fierce and broken, and as we heard her story — translated from Hebrew by our group leader — the reasons for her emotions became both understandable and unfathomable.
American ideas boost bid to get Israelis to work
STRIVE, an intensive work-readiness program, is modeled after an initiative of the same name that began more than 20 years ago in New York\’s Harlem in an effort to help women on welfare overcome their severe difficulties in finding and keeping meaningful jobs.
Can Israel’s alpha bubbe bring Mideast peace?
Galia Albin is one grandmother who isn\’t spending afternoons knitting booties, baking cookies or changing diapers. Instead, she\’s running to television studios for tapings, representing Israel at international business forums and wielding influence on Israeli policymakers. She is one of the country\’s powerful women, and her mission is to influence and empower other women throughout the world.
Healing the ‘wounds’
When rabbi and author Jan Goldstein was suddenly faced with the news that his 12-year marriage was ending — leaving him with primary custody of his three children — he felt his life was ruined, until he learned to make sense of his pain.