How can a gendered perspective coexist with traditional religious values? Haredi Feminism offers a resolution for this perceived conflict.

Recent elections show that the 'cultural norms' of ultra-Orthodox women should stop getting in their way on the Israeli political scene T...

Years ago, thanks to the emergence of the Internet, Esty Shushan was able to start commiserating with other haredi women about their powe...

As The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington’s latest guest speaker from Israel, activist Esty Shushan confounded many assumptions abou...

No haredi women are currently serving in the Knesset. Esty Shushan wants to change that. By TOBY TABACHNICKOctober 18, 2018, 3:49 pm The ...

Overjoyed, Esty Shushan stands in the august corridors of Israel’s Supreme Court and emotionally embraces her friend and colleague. “We w...

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Denying political representation to over half a million Haredi women in Israel is unacceptable in 2018 When I moved to Israel 20 years ag...

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In Israel, especially in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups and communities, women are expected to earn a living and raise a family. They’v...

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Israeli women are shaking up the political system in their country in some intriguing and even exciting ways. With national elections set...

Israeli women are shaking up the political system in their country in some intriguing and even exciting ways. With national elections set...

In early December, a campaign was launched to guarantee a spot for Charedi women on the electoral lists of the Charedi United Torah Judai...

The next Knesset is expected to have a record number of women, but even that number — 31 out of 120 — isn’t all that impressive. ‘Either w...

A poster for the group promoting haredi women political candidates, ‘Lo nivcharot; lo bocharot,’ which means, if we can’t be elected, we w...

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More than 20% of Israeli lawmakers are female, but not one woman serves from the country’s two ultra-Orthodox parties. Aryeh Deri of Shas...

A campaign to secure a spot for haredi women on the electoral lists of the haredi United Torah Judaism and Shas parties for the upcoming ...