JOFA JOURNAL

Women in Israel

Fall 2012 I Tishrei 5773 I Volume X, Issue 2

Articles

Libi Ba-Mizrah

By Judy Heicklen

Kolech—Your Voice: The Voice of Religious Feminism in Israel

By Elana Zion Golumbic and Hannah Kehat

Women in Israel: From Illusion of Equality to Exclusion

By Ruth Halperin-Kaddari

Beit Shemesh: A Case Study in Hareidi Zealotry

By Sima Zalcberg Block

Women of the Wall: Fighting for the Right to Pray

By Rivka Haut

Beit Hillel Movement Gives Women a Voice in Spiritual Leadership 

By Karen Miller Jackson

Tzohar’s Hadrakhat Kallot Program: Restoring the Simha

By Jordana Schoor

Talmud Torah for Women—Where Is It Going?

By Rachel Keren

Tefillin in the Tank: American and Israeli Cultures of Religious Identity

By Elana Maryles Sztokman

The Agunah Problem and Its Solutions in Israel: A Descriptive Analysis

By Rachel Levmore

A Soldier’s Story

By Rina Schiffmiller

My Daughter the Hayelet 

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Kolech’s Campaign against Sexual Abuse by Religious Authority Figures

By Ayelet Wieder Cohen

Giving Voice to Silenced Women: Kolech’s Actions on Mehadrin Bus Lines

By Riki Shapira

Religious Women Take Up the Arts in Israel

By Karen Miller Jackson

The Campaign Against the Exclusion of Women from Public Spaces

By Roni Hazon Weiss
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Book Corner

Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature

By Ronit Irshai, translated by Joel A. Linsider
Reviewed By Deena Zimmerman

The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting and Rethinking Jewish Tradition

By David Hartman with Charlie Buckholtz
Reviewed By Israel Drazin

Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires

By Miryam Kabakov
Reviewed By Rachel Lieberman

Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah around the World

By Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz
Reviewed By Roselyn Bell
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A Publication of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
Volume X – Issue 2
Fall 2012–Tishrei 5773

Editor:
Roselyn Bell

President:
Judy Heicklen

Past President:
Carol Kaufman Newman

Founding President:
Blu Greenberg

Executive Director Emerita:
Robin Bodner

Editorial Committee:
Allie Alperovich
Sharon Baker
Carolyn Hochstadter Dicker
Israel Drazin
Rachel Kohl Finegold
Viva Hammer
Karen Miller Jackson
Pam Scheininger
Zelda Stern

Publications Manager:
Deborah Wenger

Graphic Designer:
Adam Rawson

Founding Donors:
Belda and Marcel Lindenbaum
Jewish Life Network/
Steinhardt Foundation
The Harry Stern Family Foundation,
Zelda R. Stern