More than wigs: The women behind Israel’s sheitels

Women behind the wigs describe engaging in a profession that is part artisan, part therapist, part entrepreneur, and part ...

Celebrate International Women’s Day on the small screen: Shows with strong women to watch

TV TIME: March 8 is International Women’s Day, and the small screen offers a great many movies and series featuring ...
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Orthodox Jewish women make history in special Israeli combat unit

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Over the years, many of the young Orthodox women studying at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary yearned to join a combat unit in the Israeli army but knew that staying religiously ...
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Israeli Women Entrepreneurs Push Forward Through War and Uncertainty

At the center are Israeli women entrepreneurs who kept going through war, evacuations, economic strain, and fresh fears tied ...

Meet Anat Vidor’s vision for World WIZO

‏As president of one of the world’s largest Zionist women’s movements, Vidor is focused on strengthening WIZO as a global force for Jewish resilience, civilian strength, and fierce Zionist leadership ...

Women of the Rosenstrasse protest challenged the Nazi regime for their detained Jewish husbands’ freedom – and won

On the cold evening of Feb. 27, 1943, Charlotte Israel gathered with a small crowd of women on the Rosenstrasse, a narrow ...

Iron Ladies: Gripping insight into Cold War and pursuit of justice by Irish Jewish women

Their slice-of-life memories are heart-warming and a stark reminder of the arbitrary cruelty of the Soviet Union, even in the relatively becalmed early 1970s when the terror of Stalin had given way to ...