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Not submissive: On the women’s struggle in Israel

Not submissive: On the women’s struggle in Israel
By Bambi sheleg  |  20/05/2010
Israel’s Declaration of Independence, the constitutive text of the Jewish state, proclaims unequivocally that “it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex.” Nevertheless, this noble assertion still obtains only partial realization in our d...

'I saw the degrading attitude shown to women, just because they were women'
By Anayem Al-Tayeb  |  20/05/2010
Nissa wa Afaq (Women and Horizons) is a unique organization: Through feminist and other interpretations, it seeks to develop awareness among Israeli Arab women of other options in Islam. The organization's founder and director, Saida Mohsen-Byadsi, states categorically, “... we are not challenging the sacred texts...

Immigrant Women in Israel: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
By Tamar Jinjihashvili  |  20/05/2010
On the backdrop of the threatening openness of Israeli norms, preservation of the patriarchy in traditional communities that immigrated to Israel took on a harsh oppressiveness, and young women paid the price. Women from Soviet Georgia, Bukhara, and the Caucasus who immigrated to Israel as children over the past thirty...

A Letter from London – Keep eating the (kosher) haggis
By Antony Lerman  |  20/05/2010
The beautiful and rugged Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland, is not best known for its Jewish community, but rather as the place to which Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, fled after his defeat in the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746 at the hands ...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  20/05/2010
n the last month I have been invited to three weddings and one funeral. Just like the movie, I though, only I wasn't really prepared, although I saw it several times...well, one wedding was in Israel – no problem there, I know the rules by heart…but it was the first time I was invited to attend such Christian cere...

Blog - Animosity towards Jews in Greece
By Agata Peleszuk  |  20/05/2010
Greece plunged into financial crisis is not free of anti-Semitic attacks. After several assaults this year another Jewish site – a Holocaust Memorial Site in the island of Rhodes – was vandalized. Numerous incidents against Greek Jewry trigger off questions about reasons of animosity towards Jews in Greece, but most of...

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