International Women’s Day 2013: What You Can Do!

By Maya Paley
Published on March 8, 2013

Violence against Women: Yes, This Topic is Still Important

By Maya Paley
Published on February 25, 2013

IT’S WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY THIS SUNDAY (AUGUST 26): Are we equal yet???

By Maya Paley
Published on August 24, 2012

The Famous Question: Can We or Can’t We Have It All?

By Maya Paley
Published on August 7, 2012

Women in sports: Not an Olympic-size victory

By Maya Paley
Published on July 31, 2012

Reaching Climax: The Women’s Rights Movement

By Maya Paley
Published on July 23, 2012

Israel’s Cabinet approves plan to empower women

Published on March 12, 2012

Israel's Cabinet approved a plan to increase the participation of women in municipal government.

EMET honors women’s rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Published on June 23, 2011

The Endowment for Middle East Truth honored women’s rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali for her role in speaking out against the oppression of women in radical Islamic countries.

Standing Up for Women’s Rights in Israel

By Masa Israel Journey
Published on May 12, 2011

Egypt and the universal rights of women

Published on February 8, 2011

In 1799, the French artist Vivant Denon, accompanying a team of scientists traveling to Egypt with Napoleon (who excused his invasion with the logic that he was bringing democracy to the Arabs) was touring some ancient sites along the upper Nile when he came across an 8-year-old girl in severe pain. Writing in his journal, Denon noted that “a cut, inflicted with equal brutality and cruelty, has deprived her of the means of satisfying the most pressing want, and occasioned the most horrible convulsions.” Denon was referring, of course, to female genital mutilation. The Frenchman quickly pulled out a knife and performed a counter-operation, by which he “was able to save the life of this unfortunate little creature.”

Rabbis launch campaign for Women of the Wall

Published on October 18, 2010

A group of North American rabbis has launched an online campaign to support women who want to pray at the Western Wall with Torahs and prayer shawls.

Gender equity lags in Jewish organizations

By Sue Fishkoff
Published on April 17, 2008

It's been 45 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, making it illegal to pay men more than women for the same job.

Suad Abu Siam turns sorrow into power

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on June 28, 2007

Sitting in a nondescript hotel conference room, Abu Siam and five others described challenges faced as Israeli women. Among them, no one seemed both more foreign and yet more immediate than Abu Siam, who appeared dressed in colorful Muslim garb sparkling with jewelry, covered from head to toe so that only her beautiful and expressive face was visible. She appeared alternately angry and sad, fierce and broken, and as we heard her story -- translated from Hebrew by our group leader -- the reasons for her emotions became both understandable and unfathomable.

A Relative Peace for Those in Tunisia

By Janine Zacharia
Published on April 8, 2004

Throughout much of the Arab world and Europe, three and a half years of intensive Israeli-Palestinian violence has deepened anti-Israeli and even anti-Semitic sentiment among populations, recent polls have shown. But in Tunisia, home to one of the last significant Jewish populations in the Arab world, Jews there say their lives have continued peacefully.