– In which we note 3 “wins” for the good guys, including Malka Leifer’s extradition order and an order to Israeli health clinics to stop erasing women.
– In which we explain the new Seal of Respect, and the need for a counter market force.
– In which we invite you to become a Chochmat Nashim member.
– And in which we DISH on a couple of Chanukah touches we’re glad to share with you.
Music: “Misery” by The Whips
In which we introduce The Chochmat Nashim Podcast 2.0.
In which we review the great UK kosher cheese saga and how women’s faces are trayf.
And in which we try to understand the politics of modifying street names because they made mention of women and Zionists.
“Nothing about us without us is for us.” So goes the rallying cry popularized by disability activists. In religious Jewish circles, women are often the objects of discussion rather than participants.Is it ever okay for men to have a conversation about women without women present? In a special crossover episode with the Orthodox Conundrum with Scott Kahn, Chochmat Nashim looks critically at the backlash to a recent OC episode that centered on women’s rabbinic opportunities — sans women.
Chochmat Nashim sits down to have the uncomfortable conversation that needs to be had. But can three white women in Israel contribute constructively when it comes to America’s racial injustice?
How do the coronavirus guidelines tap into Jewish traditions of looking out for one another? Anne, Rachel, and Shoshanna navigate the tension between the personal and the collective, the reckless and redemption.
