Category: Podcast

Protests, prenups, and, still, so many women are chained in marriage. Now, a new Chochmat Nashim project encourages transparency and best practices in the religious courts. Shoshanna and Anne explain the project and why it is both innovative and a safeguard for the Jewish community. Our next step to end get-abuse!

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Music: “Misery” by The Whips

 

For nearly a decade (!), Chochmat Nashim has been exposing and explaining the damage caused by erasing women – that goes so far beyond an interest in seeing women’s faces. Anne and Shoshanna revisit the topic with the insights borne of conversations with too many naysayers. It’s time to end the erasure of women – and just chill!

Music: “Misery” by Bensound.com

The ultra-Orthodox world is banning the internet for women, cutting them off from their livelihoods, their social networks, and their access to information. We obviously find this appalling and infantilizing, but do the women of that world agree? Shoshanna and Anne speak with an insider who tells all.

Music: “Misery” by The Whips

Anne and Shoshanna take the pulse of how Israel’s complex (and teetering) coalition government has improved some of the systems in Israeli society that we care about (with a special mention for Chochmat Nashim’s deputy director). We also review how Matan Kahana, the complicated figure who heads the state’s religious services (now as deputy minister) has made a real push for women’s equal standing in some important ways.

Music: “Misery” by The Whips

 

 

Abortion. Everyone has an opinion, including those who will never face it. Shoshanna and Anne discuss why, as Orthodox Jews, we should care about American abortion policy – specifically, the potential banning and criminalization of abortion.

Music: “Misery” by The Whips

 

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