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FILE PHOTO: Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2, 2022.

How Iran spies and how women activists stay one step ahead

By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line

Rose (Rochel) Feierstein Schulder.

'My Grandmother’s Candlesticks': Honoring a grandma who resisted assimilation

By LIANE GRUNBERG WAKABAYASHI

Members of the South Yamas special forces counterterrorism unit seen near the southern Israeli city of Sderot, not far from the Israeli-Gaza border, October 16, 2023

First woman accepted into Israeli special forces unit, making history

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JEWISH WOMEN International CEO Meredith Jacobs (standing on the left) and members of the I Believe Israeli Women movement listen to a survivor of October 7 testify to the sexual violence she witnessed on that day.

Feminists ignore pain of Jewish women in a post-October 7 world

By KAREN AMOUYAL

Dr. Karny Ilan, CEO and co-founder of femtech startup Feminai together with the other co-founders: Shani Klein Antman and Gal Yanuka

Meet the women revolutionizing breast cancer detection

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Friedan leads biggest-ever march of over 100,000 people in Washington DC in July 1978 to demand an extension to the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Two dozen Jewish women (and one man) who helped start the women's revolution

By MURIEL FOX

DELEGATION MEMBERS of ‘I Believe Israeli Women’ visit the Knesset where they attend a meeting of the Global Women’s Coalition Against Gender-Based Violence as a Weapon of War, last month.

While we believe Israeli women, the world must believe them too

By MARCY GRINGLAS , MEREDITH JACOBS

Frieda Johles Forman, feminist translator, editor and writer, sits for an oral history interview with the Yiddish Book Center, May 11, 2016, in Toronto.

Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

ISRAEL’S CHIEF Rabbinate Council, 1959. At its helm sit Ashkenazi chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (center, at left) and Sephardi chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim (at right).

Religious Services Minister agrees to appoint ten women to Chief Rabbinate Electoral Assembly

By Yuval Barnea

STRONG, DIVERSE, intelligent, vocal, and accomplished women are important to our country

‘The Quad’: A different type of current affairs show

By PAULINA FELDSCHAREK

(L-R) Michal and President Isaac Hezog and Rabbi Benny Lau listen to Prof. Ruchama Elbaz

Grapevine March 22, 2024: Force of females

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Golda Meir meets with then-US president Richard Nixon in the Oval Office as then-secretary of state and national security advisor Henry Kissinger looks on, in November 1973.

More female representation in government, please

By SONIA GOMES DE MESQUITA

Soldiers of the Bardales Battalion prepare for urban warfare training on an early foggy morning, near Nitzanim in the Arava area of Southern Israel, on July 13, 2016. Formed in 2014, the Bardales Battalion is an infantry combat battalion of the Israel Defense Forces, composed of 50% female soldiers

The deeper resonance of celebrating women each and every year

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Demonstrators hold signs against the international silence over sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women during the attack by Hamas on October 7, at a protest in Jerusalem, in November.

Israeli feminists are betrayed and alone

By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI

(L-R) Michal Herzog and President Isaac Herzog light Hanukkah candles with family members of people taken hostage in Gaza., at Hostage Square in Jerusalem.

First Lady Michal Herzog slams global women's rights organizations for failure to act

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

Demonstrators hold signs against the international silence over sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women during the attack by Hamas on October 7, at a protest in Jerusalem, in November.

Why are feminists silent on Hamas's use of rape as a weapon of war?

By Carly Pildis

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly walks on Downing Street on the day of a cabinet meeting, in London, Britain September 5, 2023

UK home secretary makes jokes about spiking his wife's drink

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Columbia University student Jessie Brenner speaks at a news conference in October, calling on the university's administration to support students facing antisemitism.

When liberal arts colleges were really liberal

By EMMY LEAH ZITTER