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Elana Maryles Sztokman on gender, education, Israel and Jewish life

elana100JewFem.com offers articles, blogs, columns, links and resources about feminist issues in Jewish life. The blog tackles Jewish education, synagogue life, Israel, Jewish community, bits of pop culture, and more. The site was created by Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman, gender writer, educator, researcher, and consultant. Elana is currently the Executive Director of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, and author of books on gender issues in Jewish life, including The Men’s Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World, which won the 2012 National Jewish Book Council Award for Women's Studies.  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Now Available: Educating in the Divine Image
Elana's new book, Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools, co-authored by Dr. Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman, is now available. Although recent schol...
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"Men being nice": Jewschool reviews "The Men's Section"
“Men come to the partnership synagogue for a whole host of reasons, the overwhelming majority of which have nothing to do with feminism.” -The Men’s Section The Men’s Section is about the men’s side of partnership min...
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Posted by Elana Sztokman on 17 February 2013
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From the JOFA blog: The first women shul presidents in Orthodox White Plains
Deborah Weinberger and Beth Hurvitz: Pioneering Women Co-Presidents of Hebrew Institute of White Plains, NY   When Beth Hurvitz, a fifty-two-year-old  Senior Vice President of Visa and single mother of a th...
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Posted by Elana Sztokman on 15 February 2013
How Ruth Calderon Inspired me
Dr. Ruth Calderon is starting a revolution in Israel. The new Knesset member on Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party is a Talmudic scholar who built two secular batei midrash (houses of learning), Elul and Alma, both of wh...
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Posted by Elana Sztokman on 14 February 2013
Leave Sara Netanyahu Alone
  Getty Images The induction of the new Knesset this week raised some crucial issues for women in Israeli society, but you’d never know it from following the news. The blogosphere was abuzz this week, but no...
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Posted by Elana Sztokman on 08 February 2013
Orthodox women, Orthodox men: Never the twain shall meet?
Brandeis University Press authors win 2013 National Jewish Book Awards By Dana Trismen February 7, 2013 Section: Arts, Etc.   Brandeis University Press has recently boasted a series of successes, with two autho...
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Posted by Elana Sztokman on 07 February 2013