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Looking Forward Artist Nidaa Badwan escaped repression in Gaza. Now she’s taking on Iran.
'Every part of my body wants to talk about this story,' Badwan said
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Opinion Iran is a Jewish issue. Why is the community silent?
Women-led protests against the Iranian regime have been in the streets for three months
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Culture How simply living as a woman can feel like a preexisting condition
Elissa Bassist's illness memoir is enraging, hysterically funny and very, very Jewish
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Sports Playing rugby in Israel is unusual enough. So what’s it like for a Druze woman?
'They're not used to females with muscles,' says Kamar Halabi, the sole non-Jew on Israel's national women's rugby team
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Art How come you’ve never heard of these Jewish artists?
This exhibition says it’s partly because they’re women
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News Who runs the largest Jewish federations? Not women.
Women run nearly half of North America's 150 federations, but men control almost all those in the largest cities — and 73% of the system’s $9 billion in assets
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Opinion Ending violence at the Western Wall will take empathy from all of us
Harassment of anyone at the Western Wall is unacceptable. To end it, every Jew needs to understand the perspective of those unlike themselves, writes a Haredi rabbi
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Forverts in English How the Forverts historically related to its women readers
Although the editors offered practical advice, their attitudes were not always as progressive as you’d expect from a socialist newspaper.
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Opinion I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
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News The great tent conspiracy theory: Are ‘outside agitators’ supplying protesters’ tents?
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Opinion I teach Israel studies at NYU. We are importing the worst of Israel and Palestine to our campuses
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene says she opposed antisemitism bill because it rejects ‘Gospel’ that ‘the Jews’ handed Jesus to executioners
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene says she opposed antisemitism bill because it rejects ‘Gospel’ that ‘the Jews’ handed Jesus to executioners
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Film & TV Just how accurate is the Peacock series ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz?’
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Opinion I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
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Opinion Violence at UCLA will only produce more violence. A remarkable Palestinian peace activist showed me an alternate way