feminism

Arlene Agus, New Yorker who popularized Rosh Chodesh rituals for Jewish women, dies at 75

A pioneering Jewish feminist and founding member of Minyan M’at on the Upper West Side.

By Philissa Cramer December 28, 2024 5:30 pm

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A Brooklyn artist, raised Orthodox, paints the Western canon in ‘drag’

In a Soho gallery show, Tirtzah Bassel asks what happens to classic art when women become the main story.

October 27, 2022 12:08 pm

A new Instagram account tells the story of New Yorker Judith Kaplan, America’s first-ever bat mitzvah

A Manhattan synagogue remembers a milestone in a way accessible to today’s tweens.

February 23, 2022 5:10 pm

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Queen Esther helped me become the hero of my own Persian Jewish story

By Aylin Sedighi-Gabbaizadeh February 25, 2021 2:48 pm

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Telling the forgotten story of Osnat Barzani, the first female rabbi who lived 400 years ago, is a win for Mizrahi representation

By Lior Zaltzman February 10, 2021 2:35 pm

Jewish feminist Beate Sirota Gordon changed women’s rights in Japan forever

By Maddy Albert December 30, 2020 11:31 am

Men have dominated Jewish texts for most of history. These women are trying to change that.

By Shira Hanau December 8, 2020 5:03 pm

Doing this daily Jewish ritual has helped me cope with coronavirus

By Rachel Honeyman August 12, 2020 2:00 pm

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Powerful Jewish women face vicious tropes — they’re being used against Biden’s VP choice, too

By Meredith Jacobs August 6, 2020 12:25 pm

Israeli parliament women’s committee will be led by a man

By Sam Sokol June 8, 2020 1:57 pm

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