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


The deeper resonance of celebrating women each and every year - editorial

As long as gender equality exists in this world, Women's History Month and International Women's Day must be at the top of the agenda in Israel.

 Soldiers of the Bardales Battalion prepare for urban warfare training on an early foggy morning, near Nitzanim in the Arava area of Southern Israel, on July 13, 2016. Formed in 2014, the Bardales Battalion is an infantry combat battalion of the Israel Defense Forces, composed of 50% female soldiers

Israeli feminists are betrayed and alone - comment

If any understanding has come to light as a result of the gender-based violence surrounding the October 7 massacre, it is this: the world, including fellow feminists, will never come to our defense.

 Demonstrators hold signs against the international silence over sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women during the attack by Hamas on October 7, at a protest in Jerusalem, in November.

First Lady Michal Herzog slams global women's rights organizations for failure to act

Michal Herzog said that Israeli and Jewish women felt "betrayed by the deafening silence" of human and women's rights organizations around the world, which chose not to respond to or address Oct.7.

 (L-R) Michal Herzog and President Isaac Herzog light Hanukkah candles with family members of people taken hostage in Gaza., at Hostage Square in Jerusalem.

Why are feminists silent on Hamas's use of rape as a weapon of war? - opinion

Silence is violence, and Israeli women have suffered enough. We must all speak now.

 Demonstrators hold signs against the international silence over sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women during the attack by Hamas on October 7, at a protest in Jerusalem, in November.

UK home secretary makes jokes about spiking his wife's drink

James Cleverly is facing calls to resign after making jokes at a Downing Street reception about date rape drugs.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly walks on Downing Street on the day of a cabinet meeting, in London, Britain September 5, 2023

When liberal arts colleges were really liberal - opinion

Back in the day when liberal arts meant true liberalism, I knew I could express my opinions – and my Judaism – freely, fearlessly, even when those were at odds with my professors’ worldview.

 Columbia University student Jessie Brenner speaks at a news conference in October, calling on the university's administration to support students facing antisemitism.

Minister May Golan to global women's organizations: 'Raise your voice against the crimes of Hamas'

The letter demanded an unequivocal stop to being silent and to raise a clear and resounding voice against the crimes of Hamas that were committed on October 7.

 MK May Golan visits at MK Itamar Ben-Gvir's makeshift office in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, February 14, 2022.

Jerusalem Women’s Film Festival highlights social issues

The festival will present new feature films, as well as classics, documentaries, and short films, all of which are by women.

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We need more Barbie doctors and scientists, study says

Encouraging an expanded line of diverse Barbies, the authors envisioned dolls that inspire young girls' views of surgeons and scientists.

 What would you do in order to transform into a Barbie doll?

'The Only Woman in the Room': A feminist biography of Golda Meir - review

Most books about Golda Meir in English project her as a celebrity, “the grandmother of the nation,” and gloss over the politics. This book has chosen another direction.

 (FROM L) US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, prime minister Golda ‘the only woman in the room’ Meir, and Israeli ambassador to the US Simha Dinitz at the ambassador’s house in Washington, DC, 1970s.