Israeli Feminist Conference

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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—The relationship between feminism and Judaism, the role of women in the Israeli army, the recent growth of pornography in Israel and the conflict between the need to develop one’s personal identity and the belief that “motherhood is a national duty”—were among many controversial issues explored by the more than 500 women attending the Fourth National Israeli Feminist Conference held here last June.

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The Jewish stake in abortion rights. Women in the Israeli army. A U.N. conference on women raises ugly issues. Immigrant foremothers, circa 1900. Diary of Rose Pastor Stokes, sweatshop laborer.

Voice from the Sweatshop

by Rose Pastor Stokes

Working Daughters

by Sydney Stahl Weinberg

The Jewish Stake in Abortion Rights

by Annette Daum

Winter 2018-9

Money and meaning, from teaching Hebrew school to funding abortion. Three miscarriages and a crisis of faith. Candidates who didn’t win. When your family breaks up with you (or vice versa).

Fall 2018

Latinx, Jewish, running for office • Alleged victims of a pediatrician find each other • Is motherhood new again? • A second chance at an old relationship • How to care for children without parents •

Summer 2018

Jewish women running for office. When food endangered Jews. The challenge of raising liberal kids in Israel. A Moroccan Jew finds common ground with Muslim feminists in Tangier. The proud history of midwives?

Spring 2018

#MeToo in Jewish organizations? A girl encounters her sperm-donor half-siblings. The Skokie teenager who crushed on Jesus. What can you toss after a parent dies? Repairing women’s torn bodies in Rwanda.

Israeli Feminist Conference

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