Women and Judaism

Tamar Snyder Chaitovsky calls on synagogues to create an infrastructure for women's learning and spirituality.

Giti Bendheim reflects on her journey within the world of Orthodox women's learning and philanthropy.

Shayna Goldberg acknowledges the challenges facing women's Talmud study but it's still worth the fight.

Ayelet Wenger on women and Torah and Talmud and some things (that get) in between.

Jack Bieler argues that the most important element of advancing women's Torah study is the ability to choose.

Ilan Fuchs on the Lubavitcher Rebbe's unique view on women's Torah learning.

Sarah Rindner draws on L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz, and what the classic story says about the role of women in Orthodox Judaism.

Who is the Woman of Valor, really? She's a woman engaged in a relationship of mutuality, argues Malka Simkovich, and someone who has her own voice and deserves to be heard.

Ezra Schwartz The recently published account of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s inaugural shiur at Stern College has rightfully generated much conversation about women and Gemara study. In light of this appropriate benchmark of forty years,...

Tova Warburg Sinensky “We are commanded to love God, exalted be He, to meditate upon and closely examine His mitzvot, His commandments, and His works,...