Welcome to the Forward’s Jewish News coverage about feminism and womens issues.
Welcome to the Forward’s Jewish News coverage about feminism and womens issues.
Welcome to the Forward’s Jewish News coverage about feminism and womens issues.
Welcome to the Forward’s Jewish News coverage about feminism and womens issues.
It’s International Women’s Day, whatever that means. For McDonalds, it means turning its giant “M” insignia upside down. For Mattel, it means issuing Barbies based on famous women in history. But what does it mean for non-giant corporations? We gathered quotes from some of the most dynamic Jewish women thinkers alive today on how to…
After four excruciating years, “Jessica Jones” season two is finally here. And for that, you can thank … women! In a new interview with Vulture, Melissa Rosenberg, the show’s creator, explains her decision to hire only female directors to direct season two’s 13 episodes. Well, I tried on season one to get as many women…
Is it possible to fall more in love with Paul Newman? Newman, the nicest Jewish boy that ever there was, gave away some of his salary for the 1998 movie “Twilight” when he realized his equally-billed female co-star was receiving unequal pay, Susan Sarandon told BBC5. Speaking about women’s rights in Hollywood on Thursday morning,…
Knesset member Aliza Lavie is blond, poised — and whip smart. I caught her on her way out of the Knesset after yet another dead-end meeting with its ultra-Orthodox members, discussing women’s rights. “Ultra-Orthodox parties are taking women backwards. Everything I try to do, they block,” she said, her voice rising with frustration. “Everything I’ve…
Sound the battle drums, ladies, Barbra Streisand has just given away the ending of “Feminism: The Movie.” Female supremacy. In an interview with Variety, the superstar got real honest with her male interviewer. “I have a line in one of my journals,” she said. “It’s about how we are giving you the benefit of the…
Since our inception in 2009, Yeshivat Maharat has been no stranger to questions and concerns that have been raised by some in the Orthodox community. Despite the excellent work being done by our students and graduates across North America, every few years there have been attempts to halt the flourishing of female leadership. We have…
I was around 10 when I fell in love with cooking. I liked the way ingredients could be shaped and assembled by my small hands and transformed into something delicious — a quick and satisfying victory. But more than anything, I loved watching family members devour my food, what my then-pre-adolescent brain couldn’t have understood…
The condition of our nation’s democracy is no joke, but sometimes you have to take your laughs of despair where you can get them. The rogue-ishly attractive, loathsomely misogynist Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Courtland Sykes specializes in this kind of unintentional end-of-days humor. His belief that feminists’s heads are full of snakes, his desire to…
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