In 1979, I moved from the United States to Israel, where I discovered that unlike in America, reproductive choice in Israel was by and large not an issue — not religiously, politically or socially.
Sharon Har-noy and Adi Freid make up the only all-female Israeli skydive team in the advanced category, which includes just six teams.
Community Briefs.
\”God\’s Sandbox,\” the latest Israeli film to tackle women\’s issues, depends in large part on the mystery and romance of the desert for its effect. This is evident from its very first moments, when a car, driving slowly along a winding desert road, stops at what appears to be no particular point, and lets out a passenger: a middle-aged woman wearing a sensible straw hat to protect herself from the scorching heat, lugging a bulky suitcase.
I\’m no longer a virgin. To Israel, that is. This single babe just returned from her maiden voyage to the land of milk and honey. And all I can say is — there were a lot of honeys. Jewish men everywhere.
In the restaurants, on the streets, in the shops — I didn\’t know where to flirt first. Forget a kid in a candy store, I was like a Jew in a bagel store. I\’ll take a dozen — hot ones if you have them. Israel is a single Jewish girl\’s fantasy.
After Keren Margalit\’s boyfriend died in an army-related accident a decade ago, she envisioned the drama that would become "All I\’ve Got," the opening-night film of the 2003 Israel Film Festival.
After seven years of Israel making heroic concessions in return for terrorism, genocidal hatred and official calls for Israel\’s destruction, Rob Eshman still supports Barak\’s efforts at the negotiating table (\”Men and Martyrs,\” Jan. 12).
The National Council of Jewish Women is not the only Jewish organization opposed to the nomination of Sen. John Ashcroft for U.S. attorney general (\”Ashcroft or Not,\” Jan. 5).
The Knesset has passed a landmark law granting equal rights to women in every sphere of Israeli life — after the bill\’s sponsor gave up her committee seat to a male colleague.
Along with granting women equality in the workplace, the military and in other spheres of society, the new law also lays out the rights of women over their bodies and protects women from violence and sexual exploitation.
The young Lithuanian woman in the prison libraryhas the narrow chest, hunched shoulders and wary eyes of someone whohas known poverty and is not sure where the next blow is coming from.
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