Women in Judaism

The Women of the Talmud

How the rabbis subverted negative stereotypes.

Yitzchak Blau
Sept. 16 2024 12:01AM

In 1953, a Jewish School Asked a Rabbi a Question. Why Didn’t It Follow His Now-Famous Answer?

Joseph B. Soloveitchik and women’s education.

Joseph C. Kaplan
Sept. 6 2024 12:01AM

What Jewish Women Weren’t Learning

An unusable past?

Leah Sarna
Aug. 9 2024 12:01AM

When Conservative Rabbis Argued about Ordaining Women

A dispute between the old world and the new?

Zvi Leshem
March 8 2024 12:01AM

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
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