Tag: Women
Is Barbie liberal or ‘Kenservative’?
In the 1950s, a Jewish woman born in Denver, Colo., to parents who fled persecution in Eastern Europe, decided that the toy market needed adult-themed dolls for children.
Ruth Handler (1916-2002) came up with the idea...
AI takes center stage at women’s hackathon in Jerusalem
Road safety, traffic flow and drone-detection solutions took the top prizes as a group of 150 students from the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) utilized the latest advances in artificial intelligence during the school’s...
On Israel’s 75th, Hadassah identifies 18 ‘must know’ American Zionist women
Actor Mayim Bialik—of “Blossom” and “The Big Bang Theory” fame, and more recently, host of the popular TV game show “Jeopardy!”—and Melissa Weiss, executive editor of Jewish Insider, Hadassah, have been identified as two of the “18...
Nary a politically conservative Jewish woman to be seen at inaugural White House Forum
The White House hosted more than 70 community leaders on March 9, marking the Purim holiday with its first-ever Jewish Women’s Forum. Attendees hailed the event—part-mixer, part-holiday celebration and part-Jewish affairs state of the...
Canadian ambassador and Israeli filmmaker pose ongoing question: Why the glass ceiling?
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, Tribe Tel Aviv hosted a panel discussion that included Canadian Ambassador to Israel Lisa Stradelbauer and Israeli-American film director Paula Kweskin, founder of The 49%,...
Iranian women: Mahsa Amini incident was the ‘last straw’
Massive protests have been raging across Iran since ethnic Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died in the hospital following a beating by the regime’s morality police—a claim the authorities deny despite eyewitness statements to the...
Redesignate Yemen’s Houthis as terrorists, says women’s rights group on DC tour
At the same time that U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to the Middle East in July, a group of Yemeni women set off to Washington, D.C., to encourage the reinstatement of the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)...
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,...
Israel’s women’s fencing team wins gold at junior world championship in Dubai
Israel’s national women’s fencing team took home the gold medal at the 2022 Junior and Cadet Fencing World Championships, held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
In the junior women’s team épée, Israel won first...
Meet Mia Raskin: A Shomer Shabbat college basketball player at Binghamton
For Mia Raskin, basketball and Judaism are essential parts of life. Her deep and simultaneous commitment to her favorite sport and religion never came into conflict; at least, until Raskin began considering her college...