Phyllis Chesler
By Phyllis Chesler
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Life Remembering Rivka Haut
Courtesy of Phyllis Chesler // Phyllis Chesler and Rivka Haut, right Yesterday, a fearless and legendary leader of Jewish women, Rivka Haut, was memorialized, mourned and buried. The funeral took place at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale on March 31. Rabbi Avi Weiss compared Rivka to black fire and white fire — the black fire…
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Opinion When Reel Life Intrudes on the Mideast Conflict
People are more than edgy these days. Our careless, civilian ways are endangered — some say by Islamist terrorists, others by Republicans, or by Leftists, or madmen on strike. People are hunkering down; today they talk only to those with whom they already agree. Among Jews, however, nervousness seems to have been elevated to a…
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Opinion Breaking Sacred Ground for Equality
On June 20, the second day of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, ultra-Orthodox women physically and verbally attacked a group of religious women praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. This was not a spontaneous demonstration of hatred, but rather a calculated action to prove to the Israeli Supreme Court that the prayers of the Women of…
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