The erasure of women, which began a scant 20 years ago has now taken over frum publications. Women and girls do not exist and have been cut out visually from frum life. We see this as a travesty, a falsehood and a damaging trend plaguing our community.
Erasing women harms our financial, health and religious rights. It also portrays boys and men as incapable of normal, healthy relationships with women. This intense segregation and erasure leads to hypersexualization and in the worst cases, inability to function as a healthy marital couple.
Chochmat Nashim, with the help of over 200 volunteers around the world created The Jewish Life Photo Bank to positively represent Jewish life — with women and girls, at work, in religious life, as families and more! The bank is growing and we are planning more photoshoots.
Please use these images in your projects and share the bank with friends and coworkers. We can push back the trend of erasing women by removing the fear and showing the beauty of visible female representation.
