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By Vera Kessler
Chavi Kestenbaum is a registered nurse and psychotherapist. She is also a certified mastery coach from the Dina Freedman Academy
By Vera Kessler
Chaya Sara Gurewicz and I speak about the healing that is happening all around us.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Devorah Leah Marrus is the co-director of programming at Chabad of South Carolina.
By Vera Kessler
Dr. Chavi Goldberg, founder of CyberSem passionately discusses the significance that Jewish learning has in a woman's life.
Women will be allowed to join if they meet the criteria, but only if more than one passes the threshold.
Muslim women in Israel marry at an average age of 23.5 years.
The average number of children that a woman in Israel is expected to give birth to during her lifetime (Total Fertility Rate) is 2.89, higher than the average in OECD countries, which is 1.58.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Tamar Taback is the founder of the Nexus School for Transformational Torah.
How do we expand leadership roles and titles that the OU and its Rabbinical Panel recommend while developing and continuing a halakhic conversation about the exact parameters of those roles and titles?
By JNi.Media
IKEA said its Israeli franchise had tried to reach a consumer group and made an error.
Over the past decade, the RCA issued resolutions disapproving of ordaining women or hiring ordained women. Now the OU has joined them.
And the frustrated voices of those unable to find suitable outlets for their talents were growing louder and louder.
A leading professor at Soroka Medical Center leads a cutting-edge four-day conference set to begin in France on the issue of recurrent pregnancy loss.
Many Women of the Wall members applauded the passage of UNSC resolution 2334 demanding Israel return to pre-67 borders. WoW has no problem with the Kotel in Arab hands, just no separate prayers!
The mitzvah to recite Hallel that Chazal instituted regarding Chanukah was in fact a direct result of the miracle of Chanukah; however, its essence is not to publicize the miracle but rather to give thanks for the miracle.
Two STRONG women who are not afraid to fight the expulsion orders on Jews in Amona.
By Sandy Eller
You could do just about everything on the internet, except a girl couldn't go to seminary online. I decided to change that.
By Donny Fuchs
Each month, we are forced to endure orchestrated, deliberate stunts from the angry shrill feminists of the “Women of the Wall” who seek to alter traditional religious customs of prayer at the Kotel
By JNi.Media
Meanwhile, Rabbi Amihai Eliahu is accusing the entities behind the move of attempting to cleanse the IDF of its religious warriors.
By Rhona Lewis
So what did it really feel like – back there in Canaan? The cast traveled to Eretz Bereishit, an activity center twenty minutes outside Jerusalem, to learn about that.
By JNi.Media
Trump's view on third-trimester abortion conflicts with mainstream Jewish halakha.
By JNi.Media
MK Osama Sa'adi (Joint Arab List) acknowledged the need to reach beyond criticism of police to dealing will the general violence in Arab society, and specifically violence against women.
By JNi.Media
The Zaytouna Captain is US Army retired Colonel Ann Wright, who resigned from the US government in 2003, over her objection to the Bush Administration's foreign policy.
It is the presence of the Jewish mother, with her selfless role in engendering harmony and peace, that is the fiercely burning flame within the holy light of the Jewish people.
By JNi.Media
“Why don’t we give them the benefit of our own experience? We all wished we had such a course when we were in that situation."
By JNi.Media
Earlier this year, CAIR said Trump's repeating the story about US General John Pershing executing Muslim prisoners in the Philippines using bullets dipped in pig's blood was endangering American Muslims.
Find out how women can improve their financial situation and what they should do in the event of a divorce or the death of a partner.
While boys’ toys often involve principles inherent in math and science, girls’ toys focus on imagination and creativity.
Women are exempt only from the first general obligation to learn Torah, not the second, more specific one.
By JNi.Media
"I very quickly abandoned the ambition to achieve only rabbinic expertise, and moved on to the more important initiative of promoting you as creative scholars, with integrity, sensitivity and courage."
By JNi.Media
The committee discussed possible courses of action in light of a recent study that showed Israelis in general have a low sense of personal security.
By JNi.Media
Neguise told the delegation members, pointing out Israel's advanced capabilities in the fields of irrigation, desalination, solar energy, medicine, education and tourism.
By JNi.Media
The NYT report described "unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct."
A personal armed guard now is escorting Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) Knesset Member Ayelet Shaked following death threats. Shaked is slated to be the Justice Minister, an appointment that has riled up the left-wing, which usually goes to bat for women but not if they are on the "wrong side" of the road. The decision […]
The all-women Hareidi political party wanted to advertise to their constituency.
An Israeli Supreme Court judge rejected on Tuesday an appeal by women to allow Israeli officials outside of the country to cast their votes in the Knesset elections in March on a day other than Purim. Justice Salim Jourban ruled that the Knesset knew the law, or should have known the law, that sets the […]
By Rachel Levy
ISIS terrorists are preparing to defend captured territory and using human shields to do it, but they're also living the high life with chocolate.
No, she is not Tony Blair’s sister-on-law. She is one of 200 British women in the evil ISIS. May she be granted her wish to God for martyrdom.
When a Muslim won’t look at a woman, it is called respect. When a Jew won’t shake her hand, it is called sexism.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It could be Vogue or Elle. But it’s Hadar Magazine. In English, “hadar” means “glorious.”
No danger of the Jews becoming a minority in the combined area of Judea, Samaria and the pre-1967 Israel.
By JTA
A new initiative will use Jewish law to help “Agunot” women, separated from husbands who refuse to grant them a divorce that would let them re-marry.
Not honoring your own voice begins to erode who you are and what you have to offer in this world.
The Israeli government was respectful enough to offer Reform Jews their own location at one of the holiest sites in Judaism in order to pray as they please.
Women drivers are so terrible in Saudi Arabia that police fine any woman they see. Their crime is driving. Threats of fines kept the “women’s driver protest” to a mere trickle.
This past month several dozens of jihad organizations operating in Syria came to the conclusion that the disagreements among them harm their fighting cause and strengthen Asad.
Many Jewish women suffer as “agunahs,” unable to re-marry because their husbands refuse them divorces. Four Jews, two of them rabbis, allegedly took the law into their hands and beat husbands until they agreed.
Why go through complicated procedures to help fertility when a Breakfast of Champions might solve the problem, says Israeli researchers. Eat well in the morning and multiply the earth.
The Western Wall Rabbi told Haredi girls to – in effect – let the Women of the Wall pray as they wish. An analogy to “let sleeping dogs lie” would be taken the wrong way.
The Women of the Wall are unhappy again. Yes, they can read from the Torah, but now that have no scroll. It was damaged by dampness, and WoW blames the government for lack of proper storage.
Haifa’s Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center promotes peace and the human rights of women.
By Soeren Kern
The imam had threatened to burn down the woman's house because, according to him, she is an "infidel" as she works outside of the home, drives an automobile and has non-Muslim friends.
Israel’s Garin Tzabar program, supporting ‘lone soldiers’ with no family in Israel, recently welcomed close to 360 young women and men from around the world into its care.
Islam is undergoing a modern crisis which perhaps only its clerics and lay leaders can rescue it from.
When I started to speak and my words drowned in tears, it was she who comforted me.
On a Jerusalem bus driving in Givat Shaul on Kanfei Nesharim street, a Haredi man asked a secular woman to move to the back of the bus, according to a report in YNet. At that point, a secular man, also on the bus, got up and punched the Haredi man in the face and then […]
IDF Lieutenant Colonel Shirly Subul is a woman on a mission and has built a career out of transforming the physical fitness of IDF soldiers.
They live in a world apart from the rest of observant Jewry.
The article argues that while naturally aligned with their fellow orthodox Jews, women from the modern orthodox community in Israel are finding themselves aligned with secular feminists.
Hollywood blockbuster portrays Israel as a shining example, dedicated to safety, security, and helping other nations in need.
Black hat extremists in Beit Shemesh are giving Israel a black eye again. A Haredi couple tells a woman to go back to the bus. Police arrest them, and rioters smash bus windows.
By Paula Stern
I have been searching for the answer to this question...who did they kill...those 104 we are about to release? I know of a mother and her three children; I know of a grandfather stabbed in the back. I don't know all the names but it is for these we weep today - once killed by […]
“Mommy, did you sign my spelling test?” “Mommy, do you remember how you told me last week that you would be able to have my blue shirt washed for school today? I really need it for the play.”
Mobs protesting the rule of Mohammed Morsi have sexually assaulted nearly 100 women and raped at least 91 in the last four days of protests, Human Rights Watch reported. Forty-six attacks took place on Sunday, 17 on Monday and 43 on Tuesday, according to figures attributed to the Egyptian Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, which operates a […]
Yeshivat Maharat, the first institution to train Orthodox women as spiritual leaders and halakhic authorities will host their first graduation ceremony on Sunday. The women have each studied the same course of training as men and have studied the Jewish Torah at advanced levels for years. Orthodox rabbis will be present at the graduation, at […]
The Knesset passed into law on Tuesday a requirement that at least four women be included on the committee that elects rabbinical court rabbis. Haredi Knesset Members voted against the bill. The committee automatically includes the Justice Minister, who currently is Tzipi Livni and who will sit on the committee in addition to the four […]
By JTA
Israel's Justice Minister Tzipi Livni ordered her ministry on Thursday to draft legislation that would make the gender-based segregation of women illegal. "Discrimination against women in public places, in public services, cannot be allowed," she said in a radio interview. She wrote on her Facebook page, "Removal of women from the public sphere is damaging […]
The Israel Armed Forces is proposing that women and men both serve in the army for the same amount of time for equal positions. Men soldiers currently serve for three years and women for two years. The IDF wants to cut the men’s service to 32 months and extend the service for women as well […]
The absence of Haredi parties in the government is already being, and women probably will be among those nominating Israel’s next rabbinic judges and chief rabbis.
Do Israeli orthodox rabbis have a “monopoly?” Should Diaspora Jews try to pull Israel’s domestic strings? The National Council of Jewish Women seems to say “yes” to both questions.
Digitally removing women from Holocaust photos dishonors those women and the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
Israel women’s soldiers are known for being tough. They are combat soldiers Air Force pilots, logistic specialists and martial arts experts. And one of them may be Miss Universe.
"Despite the mudslinging campaign against us before the elections, we recommended Netanyahu to form the next government."
GoDaddy's Super Bowl spot was a disappointment for American culture and even more disappointing that it starred an Israeli icon.
"When positions opened, if there was a qualified woman for the job I was inclined to hire her."
By Tzvi Fishman
Our sages teach it was the women of Israel that saved the nation from Egypt.
By JTA
A 500-year-old Sephardi women’s prayer book is being reissued in Hebrew.
By dvora
Earlier this year, the American Cancer Society came out with new guidelines concerning Pap smears, which screen for cervical cancer. Conventional wisdom had long held that women should receive annual Pap smears, but in March, doctors announced the new guidelines suggesting that women receive a Pap smear once every three years.
A high-number of Haredi women responded to the survey. Haredi women suffering from eating issues also face a particular set of challenges.
Apartheid in Israel does not exist, however gender apartheid, apartheid against gays, as well as slavery and racism against blacks, Palestinians and non-Muslims are all commonplace in the Muslim world.
By Sam Ser
Dozens of haredim stoned the car of a woman as she hung posters for a lottery; similar incidents have sparked debate over the treatment of women in haredi society
July 3, 2026 
