Tag: Jewish Women
France elects Jewish woman speaker of National Assembly
A Jewish lawyer and mother of five is the newly elected speaker of France’s National Assembly and the first woman to ever hold that position.
Yael Braun-Privet, 51, whose grandparents fled Eastern Europe in the 1930s to escape the Nazis,...
Overcoming the pandemic and adapting to new home, Israeli women find professional success
For many parents, the past two years have been somewhat of a blur. Lockdowns, regulations and mandatory isolation became the norm, making parenting even more of a challenge than it already is. With all...
Encouraging inclusion: Creating a photo bank of Orthodox Jewish women
The Jewish Life Photo Bank is releasing what they call the first-of-its-kind photo bank representing Orthodox Jewish life, including positive images of Jewish women and families. Chochmat Nashim, an organization that challenges trends in Jewish...
New head of Hadassah: ‘We have the chance to deepen our vision for the...
Naomi Adler’s connection with Hadassah began two decades before she was even born, when noted cantor Hugo Chaim Adler and his wife, Selma, stepped off the ship in New York—a ship that had taken...
Global Day of Learning
Join JWA as we celebrate the launch of the expanded and renamed Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. From Sunday, June 27, through Monday, June 28, six webinars presented by expert scholars will showcase the evolution of...
Three Jewish Women of Valor
What does being Jewish mean to you? Is it keeping up the practices of an ancient religion? Are the values separate from the prayers or are they symbiotic? Do we wear a Star of...
From China to Mexico, Message at Chabad Women’s Banquet Was Love
Two weeks ago to the day, as the COVID-19 coronavirus was rapidly spreading through the Chinese city of Wuhan, Rochel Kalmenson and her husband, Rabbi Yekutiel Kalmenson, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ningbo, China, and their three young children, boarded...
Jewish astronomer becomes first woman to have US observatory named after her
The National Science Foundation announced earlier this month that the first national U.S. observatory to be named after a female astronomer will honor Jewish scientist Vera Rubin.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Cerro Pachón, Chile, will...
Jewish and Arab women marrying, conceiving later than a decade ago
A study by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of International Women’s Day 2019 revealed that Jewish and Arab women are marrying at older ages than they were 10 years ago, and that Israel...
Who Are the 13 Jewish Women Running for Senate and House?
This year, 3,381 women are running for their states legislatures; this is one thousand more than 20 years ago. On the national scene, 256 women appear as candidate for Senate and House. Among them...