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Opinion This Shavuot, we are in the golden age of female Torah study
There are so many female rabbi-scholars of Torah that it is no longer remarkable
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Fast Forward Judy Blume is having a moment. Here’s why Jewish women love her work.
For decades her works have been touchstones for women — especially Jewish American women
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Yiddish World The late poet Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim’s tragic secret
Although Basman spoke little about what she endured during the Holocaust, the author believes that her remaining childless was linked to it.
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Culture Hello, my name is Vashti: Meet a museum founder, a singer, an author and an Olympian
These modern-day Vashtis bear the name of the woman who paved the way for Purim’s Queen Esther
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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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Books 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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Music In 1964, when he was just 23, Bob Dylan wrote the prophetic anthem that encapsulates Trump’s America
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Fast Forward What does the election of Mark Carney mean for Canadian Jews and Israel?
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Fast Forward After welcoming far-right politicians, Israel’s antisemitism conference is hemorrhaging speakers
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Fast Forward Trump’s antisemitism chief shares ‘Jew card’ post from white supremacist
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Fast Forward Chuck Schumer postpones all antisemitism book tour events this week amid planned protests
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