Seven female settlers arrested for price tag attacks
Jewish Journal
December 5, 2011
Seven female settlers were arrested on suspicion of price tag attacks in the West Bank.
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Women barred from funerals in Israel
Jewish Journal
December 5, 2011
The troubling phenomenon of excluding women from cemeteries in Israel appears to be getting worse. Last week, Tal Yehezkeli of the IDF radio station Galei Tzahal broke the story of Rosie Davidian, who was not allowed to deliver a eulogy at her father’s funeral.
Picks for rabbinical judges’ panel riles Israeli women’s groups
Jewish Journal
November 23, 2011
Women\’s and human rights groups in Israel criticized the Israel Bar Association\’s decision not to appoint any women to a committee that appoints rabbinical judges.
Military chief slams settler rabbi over women’s singing
Jewish Journal
November 21, 2011
Israel\’s military chief of staff, Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz, slammed a settler rabbi\’s claim that religious soldiers would rather face a firing squad than attend a ceremony in which women sing.
Israel takes gender fight to buses, billboards
Jewish Journal
November 17, 2011
The women turned heads as they got on Jerusalem’s No. 56 bus on a November weekday.
Growing gender segregation among Israeli haredim seen as repressing women
Jewish Journal
November 14, 2011
On the No. 3 bus line in Jerusalem, women passengers pay their fare and walk directly to the back to find a seat.
Religious zealots attack “immodest” Jerusalem shops
Jewish Journal
October 19, 2011
A sign at the ice cream parlor may caution men and women not to lick cones in public, but the warning didn\’t stop Jewish zealots vandalizing the shop in Jerusalem\’s main ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.
Rabbis launch campaign for Women of the Wall
Jewish Journal
October 18, 2010
A group of North American rabbis has launched an online campaign to support women who want to pray at the Western Wall with Torahs and prayer shawls.
Chairs thrown at Women of the Wall
Jewish Journal
March 16, 2010
Two haredi men were arrested after allegedly throwing chairs at women preparing to pray at the Western Wall.\n
Sunday wrapup from Beijing: U.S. swimmer Torres wins two silvers; Israelis lag
Jewish Journal
August 17, 2008
U.S. swimmer Torres wins two silvers
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