Feminism

Teenage girl murdered after refusing arranged marriage to cousin, Iraqi women’s rights group claims

The murder was reportedly carried out under the justification of “washing shame,” a term associated with honor killing.

A young Iraqi girl who has reached the age of wearing a hijab, is clothed in the head covering worn by many Muslim women for the first time during a ceremony organised at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq's southern city of Basra on December 11, 2025.
DISCO CEILING in Arlington, Texas. The 1970s saw the social revolution known as Women’s Lib.’

'All Afternoon': Feminism comes to River Ridge - book review

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New documentary spotlights Jewish feminist NYC sanitation artist

Nick Fuentes, professional incel, attends a rally instead of doing his laundry.

Purim Shpiel: Nick Fuentes’s mother critiques his views on women


First woman accepted into Israeli special forces unit, making history

The soldier successfully passed the grueling selection process, which includes a rigorous five-day screening that tests both physical and mental endurance.

 Members of the South Yamas special forces counterterrorism unit seen near the southern Israeli city of Sderot, not far from the Israeli-Gaza border, October 16, 2023

Feminists ignore pain of Jewish women in a post-October 7 world - opinion

When feminist organizations fail to speak out against the atrocities committed against Jewish women, they send a clear message: Jewish pain does not matter.

 JEWISH WOMEN International CEO Meredith Jacobs (standing on the left) and members of the I Believe Israeli Women movement listen to a survivor of October 7 testify to the sexual violence she witnessed on that day.

Meet the women revolutionizing breast cancer detection

The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 23.

 Dr. Karny Ilan, CEO and co-founder of femtech startup Feminai together with the other co-founders: Shani Klein Antman and Gal Yanuka

Two dozen Jewish women (and one man) who helped start the women's revolution

American Jews helped to change life forever for half the world’s population – women.

Friedan leads biggest-ever march of over 100,000 people in Washington DC in July 1978 to demand an extension to the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

While we believe Israeli women, the world must believe them too - opinion

When women come forward as survivors of sexual assault and gender-based violence, they are usually met with support and sympathy - victims and survivors of Oct. 7 have not been treated with humanity.

 DELEGATION MEMBERS of ‘I Believe Israeli Women’ visit the Knesset where they attend a meeting of the Global Women’s Coalition Against Gender-Based Violence as a Weapon of War, last month.

Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87

Forman, a trailblazer of feminist Jewish studies, died June 9 at Toronto General Hospital. She was 87.

 Frieda Johles Forman, feminist translator, editor and writer, sits for an oral history interview with the Yiddish Book Center, May 11, 2016, in Toronto.

Religious Services Minister agrees to appoint ten women to Chief Rabbinate Electoral Assembly

The 150 Assembly members are composed of 80 Rabbis, who are always men by virtue of their position, and 70 heads of local authorities and religious councils, of which few are women.

ISRAEL’S CHIEF Rabbinate Council, 1959. At its helm sit Ashkenazi chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (center, at left) and Sephardi chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim (at right).

‘The Quad’: A different type of current affairs show 

'The Quad' brings women’s voices to the forefront of discourse about Israel, where women with differing views engage in vibrant debates on critical issues.

 STRONG, DIVERSE, intelligent, vocal, and accomplished women are important to our country

Grapevine March 22, 2024: Force of females

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

 (L-R) Michal and President Isaac Hezog and Rabbi Benny Lau listen to Prof. Ruchama Elbaz

More female representation in government, please - opinion

Women are not better than men, but they are also no worse. It is time to meet the challenge laid down decades ago by our one and only female leader.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Golda Meir meets with then-US president Richard Nixon in the Oval Office as then-secretary of state and national security advisor Henry Kissinger looks on, in November 1973.