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feminism
The Golda Meir exchange, part 2: “a female leader in a world run by men”
Is this Orthodox rabbi a feminist?
When word got out that Rabbi Simcha Krauss was coming to Los Angeles to teach a series of lessons on how to resolve the problem of agunot — women “chained” to their marriages because their husbands refuse to give them a get, or religious divorce — the Rabbinical Council of California (RCC) sent a letter to the Orthodox community discouraging attendance.
Ultra-Orthodox feminism: Not a contradiction in terms
I am an ultra-Orthodox feminist.
Where have you gone, Betty Friedan?
Betty Friedan was a twentieth-century American revolutionary who, in word and deed helped empower women everywhere. She was author of The Feminine Mystique (1963), founded the National Organization of Women (NOW), and “mother” of Second Wave Feminism that transformed the U.S
Feminism isn’t kosher
Fierce debates this month over women clergy represent the most fractious internecine conflict in the Orthodox Jewish community in a generation.