Women in Judaism

The History of Women’s Sections, and Women Cantors, in Premodern Synagogues

With photographs.

Chen Malul and Jewish Heritage Europe
Dec. 2 2022 12:01AM

The Scholars and Physicians Who Are Bringing the Most Intimate Areas of Jewish Ritual to Social Media

Family purity comes to Instagram, with a sprinkling of humor.

Lindsey Bodner
Nov. 8 2022 12:01AM

It’s Unlikely That the Rabbis Tried to Undermine the Story of a Talmudic Heroine

The “Bruriah episode” and a medieval scribal error.

Eitam Henkin
Oct. 21 2022 12:01AM

A Brief, Illustrated History of Women and the Jewish Book

Authors, scribes, typesetters, publishers, and illustrators.

Michelle Margolis
Aug. 1 2022 12:01AM

For the Jews of Medieval Europe, the Bible’s Characters Were Everywhere

Quotidian piety.

Eve Krakowski
July 15 2022 12:01AM

The Complicated Legacy of Eva Frank, Perhaps the Only Jewish, Female Messianic Figure

Jacob Frank and his daughter Eva claimed the mantle of Shabbetai Tzvi.

Shira Telushkin
May 19 2022 12:01AM

The Women’s Prayers of 18th-Century Jewry, and the Women Who Wrote Them

Leah Horovitz’s tkhines.

Leah Sarna
May 16 2022 12:01AM

A Haredi Revolution in Women’s Talmud Study

A movement from within.

Rachel Frommer
April 25 2022 12:01AM

Galicia’s Rebellious Daughters, and the Birth of Orthodox Schools for Girls

True stories, literary retellings, and a religious response.

Rachel Manekin
Dec. 23 2021 12:01AM

Remembering a Great Historian of Jewish Women

Paula Hyman, 1946-2011.

Deborah Dash Moore and Noam Pianko
Oct. 7 2021 12:01AM

The Woman behind the First Printed Hebrew Prayer Book

Penitential prayers from Piove di Sacco.

Yori Yalon
Aug. 12 2021 12:01AM

Meet the Orthodox Mother of Twelve Who Ran the Office of an Israeli President

She hopes one day to represent Ḥaredim in the Knesset.

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt
July 26 2021 12:01AM

The Revolt against Jewish Tradition Didn’t Benefit Jewish Women

The case of Pauline Wengeroff.

Shulamit Magnus
March 15 2021 12:01AM

Hasidism Was for Women, Too

Ḥasidic women were patrons, pilgrims, and keepers of traditions.

Glenn Dynner
March 12 2020 12:01AM
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