Empowering women

Deep in the trenches of women’s rights, Na’amat fights the good fight

President of World Na’amat Hagit Pe’er reflects on the efforts to keep women in the public sphere amidst the hostile political reality.

Hagit Pe’er (second from the right) during the World Na'amat visit to the Gaza Envelope.
Frieda Ross, President of World Emunah

World Emunah: The women who are holding Israel together

A HOLOCAUST survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Women of the Wall call on Katz to include women in national Remembrance Day ceremony

L'Oréal's Program for Advancing Girls in Science enters its third year

Science needs women: L’Oréal Israel’s girls-in-STEM program enters third year


The ties that bind

As a community we must castigate, condemn and pursue anyone who uses the contemptible tool of refusing to grant a divorce.

A FORMER ‘chained’ woman (left) stands in front of a rabbinic court with her lawyer after winning her case.

Thinking bigger together

With JNF’s Women’s Campaign kicking off in March, the women of Jewish National Fund demonstrate their power for the Jewish state

JNF-USA leaders in the Women’s Campaign (left to right): Samantha van Adelsberg, Marci Robinson, Alyse Golden Berkley, Myra Chack Fleischer and Nina Paul.

Family Day: A salute to wonder women

No offense to Gal Gadot, but these wonder women come in all ages, sizes, and from all backgrounds.

Gal Gadot stars as the fierce Amazon warrior princess out to save the world in ‘Wonder Woman'

About misogynistic pronouncements

The news is far from entirely progressive and this struggle will not simply be linear. But clearly, we are in a new phase. Pathetic pronouncements by threatened men are a sure sign of that.

The IDF's new coed combat units are the result of a long struggle for the integration of women into fighting roles in the army

Senior cleric: Long robes not necessary attire for Saudi women

Saudi women have started wearing more colorful abayas in recent years, the light blues and pinks in stark contrast with the traditional black.

Women wearing traditional Saudi clothing, or an abaya

Busy bees

On-demand beauty services app ‘Missbeez’ continues to empower female entrepreneurs while looking to the future.

Maya Gura, co-founder and CEO of Missbeez

Western Wall rabbi apologizes to female reporter for discrimination

“I want to express my regret for the anguish suffered by your newspaper’s diplomatic correspondent.”

The Israeli press gathering at the Kotel moments before US Vice President Pence arrives.

Liberia bans female genital mutilation - but only for a year

Activists have long campaigned for FGM to be outlawed in Liberia, a country of about 4.6 million people, where around half of women have undergone the procedure.

A man in Kenya shows the logo of a T-shirt that reads "Stop the Cut" referring to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

IN PICTURES: Women's march draws massive crowds across the U.S.

In coordinated rallies in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and Chicago, hundreds of thousands of women and their male supporters took to the streets.

People take part in the Women's March in Chicago, Illinois year after Trump's inauguration

This Jewish woman is creating the world’s first vagina museum

Now, the museum is “my whole life,” she says. “I am now the vagina lady.”

Florence Schechter on YouTube