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


Feminist scholars blast ‘abandonment’ of Israeli women by major organizations

The National Women Studies Association has done little to condemn Hamas or assist the victims of the worst attack against women in recent memory, says the AEN.

 People gather and light candles to remember the victims who were murdered by Hamas militants at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, October 17, 2023.

Michaeli: Indifference to Hamas sexual violence is a betrayal of feminism

The head of Israel's Labor Party advocates for cooperation with Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority while condemning the progressive left's support for jihad in the name of human rights.

Discussion in the Constitutional Committee regarding the Judicial Reform on February 20, 2023

The anti-Zionist sex: Feminist organizations side with Hamas

The October 7 massacre brought feminist organizations and jihadist rapists into one bed.

 WOMEN'S LIBERATION has been part of the Zionist ideal since its inception.

The story of Rebecca, Isaac, and Jacob from a feminist perspective - opinion

If we have an intuitive deep truth that the reality is distorted and needs correction, we should act immediately to rectify it, just as Rebecca did.

 Jacob meets Rachel in the Bible.

October 7 massacre proves #MeToo doesn't apply to Jewish women - opinion

Anywhere else, the #MeToo movement would have swung into action, yet women in Israel have not been afforded any support.

Israelis protest sexual violence in the country. Photo taken in 2020

A director, on her debut: 'I wanted to show women who did not make history'

I wanted to talk about someone who is not a rebel, who accepts the life that she has,' says Paola Cortellesi.

 Director Paola Corteselli at the Haifa International Film Festival

Revisiting Betty Friedan’s Jewish legacy through the first biography of her in decades

On that day, she finally tore through the “feminine mystique” to affirm her full identity in public — as both a feminist and a Jew.

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.

The Game of Queens: Why do women have a lower ceiling in chess?

In checking gender bias in chess playing, New York researchers find parents and coaches shortchange girls’ potential. 

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Religious feminist Alice Shalvi was a lifelong revolutionary - editorial

Teaching girls Talmud was unheard of in 1970s Israel. Shalvi did it anyway, and she didn't stop there.

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Israeli professor, Jewish feminism educator Alice Shalvi dies at 96

She is survived by five of her six children,  21 grandchildren,  and 26 great-grandchildren, which is quite a legacy for someone who escaped Nazi Germany in time.

Alice Shalvi