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Women
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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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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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News Breaking barriers: Women play hockey at Maccabiah Games for the 1st time
U.S., Canadian and Israeli teams meet on the ice: 'Combining our faith with our sport'
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Opinion Congress is closing the ‘boyfriend loophole.’ That could stop domestic abusers from turning into mass shooters
Under current federal law, dating partners convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence are allowed to keep and purchase firearms.
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Yiddish World 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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