by Naomi Danis
…there are women qualified to see you through the process. Rabbi Chana Thompson Shor and Rabbi Karen Reiss Medwed are the first two women ever to be certified as mesadrot…
Pioneers in Helping Women Move On
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Orthodox Feminists—Definitely No Oxymoron
by Sally Berkovic
…do they figure in this history lesson? For the past 25 years, pioneering educators such as Chana Henkin, Malka Bina and David Siiber have transformed education by enabling women to…
Exile
Ruth Mason
…and shaking them so clumps of dirt fell into the parsley. Another woman was trying to convince Chana, who ran the fruit stand, to give her eight clementines for the…
Women Occupy Wall Street / Occupy Judaism
by Amy Stone
…Chana Rothman feels the Occupy Judaism High Holiday services embody “the true energy of the American Jewish experience, people deeply invested in this country.” Not your traditional rebbitzin, Rothman, whose…
Jewish Feminist Blogs-An Unlikely Online Sisterhood
by Rachel Barenblat
…also contributes to the popular progressive collective blog JewSchool. Some blogs wear the badge of feminism more prominently than others. Author Naomi Chana of Baraita, whose posts leap gracefully from…
And Speaking of Israeli Culture…
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…in their own right, making beautiful music together. I was privileged to attend one of their recent American tour concerts, at the Highline Ballroom (up-and-comer Chana Rothman opened with a…
Feminist Books for Young Readers
Naomi Danis
…airlifted to Israel in 1951 in Operation Ezra and Operation Nehemia. The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs by Chana Stiefel, illustrated by…
Sisters as Destabilizing Figures
by Chana Thompson Shor
…how, in a very natural way, biblical sisters pack a powerful punch. Chana Thompson Shor is a Conservative rabbi, the first woman mesader gittin (preparer of Jewish religious divorces), a…
Happening
compiled by Naomi Danis
…Ln., Rockville, MD 20852; fax (301)770-6365. Nishmat, a Jerusalem based center for beginner to advanced Jewish education for women, was founded eight years ago by Chana Henkin at the urging…
Eavesdropping in the Halls of Jewish Academe
by Melanie Weiss
…Said, ‘Sing Loudly’: Gender and Song Performance by ‘Cochin’ Jewish Women in India and Israel Chana Kronfeld, University of California at Berkeley The Verbal Art of [Dahlia] Ravikovitch’s Political Poem…