Women and girls

UN adopts post-Assad Syria resolution recognizing women searching for missing family

Syria’s representative to the UN, told the General Assembly ahead of the resolution’s adoption that Syrian women faced what he described as “the worst missing persons crisis in modern history."

Artists perform, as Kurdish female fighters attend a military parade to mark the 13th anniversary of the founding of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in Qamishli, Syria, April 4, 2026.
 Women wearing burqas pause at the side of a road in Kabul, Afghanistan October 26, 2021.

Five years after Taliban takeover, Afghan women remain trapped in deepening rights crisis

Rubaha, 8, watches from the entrance of her home as a buffalo is held down for sacrificial slaughter in celebration of Eid al-Adha in the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan, June 8, 2025.

European Parliament demands Pakistan free 13-year-old Christian girl in forced marriage, conversion

Israeli Bedouin women’s rights activist and lawyer, Hanan Alsanah.

The Israeli-Bedouin women’s rights activist bringing women to the negotiation table - interview


Police warn of dangerous substance: Girl scout cookies

Officers at the Ravenna Police Dept in Ohio has selflessly offered to stand in the line of fire on this one.

Girl Scout cookies

A children's book to encourage young women to take an interest in science

Prof. Cwikel publishes "Mayufa and the Bone Lady", a children's book in English, Arabic and Hebrew on paleontology. The book encourages girls to engage into science.

The cover of Goldsmith’s book

MAY 24, 2019: JERUSALEM POST CROSSWORD PUZZLE - Flower girls

Jerusalem Post Crossword Puzzle

Crossword puzzle [Illustrative]

Fearing death, runaway Saudi sisters appeal for world's help

"We are confused," they wrote.

Saudi student are seen at the exhibition to guide job seekers to the Glowork Women's Career Fair, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia October 2, 2018

How Jewish women were smuggled to safety in 19th century Italy

“She is a good girl as is her name... the gentiles have laid their eyes on her on her to subvert her honor," states a letter from 1754.

Image from the Livorno Haggadah of 1825

The Rabbi I Did Not Become and the Preaching I Still Get to Do

The Jerusalem Post

Girl power

CYBERGIRLZ IS currently conducting an all-girls marathon in which they’ll feel comfortable asking questions and making mistakes

TAU students protest employment of former minister convicted of indecent assault

Haim Ramon was convicted of forcibly kissing a young female soldier.

Haim Ramon

Honoring the Torah

Clearly, we do have female rabbinic leadership, one that is vibrantly glorifying the Torah.

Religious IDF women

Afghani girl coders design games to fight opium and inequality

One of the games designed by the all-female team has caught the eye of developers and gamers as it illustrates the scourge of opium cultivation and the challenges the Afghan security forces face as they try to stamp it out.

Afghan coders practice at the Code to Inspire computer training center in Herat, Afghanistan April 24, 2018