Israeli female scientist is top young researcher
Jewish Journal
April 11, 2012
JERUSALEM — She’s young, smart and aims to help treat life-threatening diseases.
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Israel’s Cabinet approves plan to empower women
Jewish Journal
March 12, 2012
Israel\’s Cabinet approved a plan to increase the participation of women in municipal government.
Livni, Giffords on Newsweek’s influential women list
Jewish Journal
March 6, 2012
Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni and several American Jews, including former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, were included in Newsweek\’s 150 \”Women Who Shake the World.\”
Who are the Charedim?
Jewish Journal
February 8, 2012
The disturbing recent episode involving the harassment of an 8-year-old Orthodox girl in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, and the ongoing controversy over separate seating for women on public buses in Jerusalem and elsewhere, has focused new attention on that group of Jews known as Charedim (or ultra-Orthodox). But who are they, and where do they come from?
Israeli women’s rights moving to front of bus
Jewish Journal
January 25, 2012
Anat Hoffman, the progressive Israeli activist who made headlines two summers ago when she was arrested for carrying a Torah at the Western Wall, comes to California next week with a clear message for American Jews: What’s happening in Beit Shemesh is as big a threat to Israel as what’s happening in Tehran.
Woman assaulted by haredi men in Beit Shemesh
Jewish Journal
January 24, 2012
A woman hanging posters for Israel\’s national lottery was assaulted by haredi Orthodox men in Beit Shemesh.
The back of the bus
Susan Freudenheim
January 12, 2012
If Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy teaches us one thing, it’s that the fight for civil rights is not particular to a time, a place, a people or a gender. It’s still shocking to watch vintage 1960s TV footage and see moms and dads yelling at someone else’s children for simply walking up the steps of a high school.
A spit of death
Jewish Journal
January 5, 2012
I am sickened to hear the recent reports from Israel concerning eight-year-old Naama Margolese who is afraid to go to school because “orthodox” extremists spat on her and called her a whore for dressing \”immodestly.\”
Women may deliver eulogies, ministry tells Israeli burial societies
Jewish Journal
January 5, 2012
Women may deliver eulogies at funerals, the Religious Services Ministry told Israeli burial societies.
Haredi Orthodox children attacked in Jerusalem
Jewish Journal
January 4, 2012
Two haredi Orthodox children say they were attacked in Jerusalem by non-Orthodox Jews in recent days.
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