Chava: The Mother Sets The Tone
How many of us realize that it was through this act that woman attained motherhood? Her punishment of pain and anguish turned into the blessing of bearing children.
Lihi Lapid: Woman of Valor
Eishet Chayil is a hymn customarily recited on Friday evenings before sitting down to the Shabbat evening meal. It is a twenty-two verse poem at the conclusion of the book of Mishlei, describing the woman of valor as the ideal wife and mother.
Minister Miri Regev: Loyalty In Culture Initiative
The minister is a religious Jewish woman. Despite her position as Israel’s Minister of Sports, in July 2016 she refused to participate in the 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies because they took place on Shabbat.
Ambassador Nikki Haley: Standing Up For Israel
I am here to say the United States will not turn a blind eye to this anymore. I am here to underscore to the ironclad support of the United States for Israel.
Sharona Blank: Role Model Of Jewish Motherhood
This led to a shouting match between the judges and what could have been the end of the show.
Orna Porat: The First Lady Of The Theater
Orna Porat was a former Christian and a member of the Hitler Youth.
Shulamit Halevi Stein: Saving The Flag
I could not believe my ears. What? The horrible historical event’s survivors are still alive? And here in Netanya?
Esther Pollard: A True Woman of Valor
Esther called their marriage "an oasis of unconditional love in a sea of lies and corruption.
Ayelet Shaked: A True Jewish Minister of Justice
She’s seen as a poster child for The Jewish Home’s efforts to reach beyond its Orthodox base.
Cheryl Saban: A Woman With A Jewish Heart
Most of all, she is a role model for her descendants who endeavor to follow her example. And a woman with a Jewish heart.
Goldie Michelson: A Century Of Jewish Commitment
Whenever new Russian immigrants arrived in Worcester, Goldie Michelson helped welcome them.
Rokhl Faygenberg: Of Fremde Vegn (Strange Ways)
She reached Palestine in 1924 when the magazine’s editorial management appointed her as their foreign correspondent in the Holy Land.
Rachel Azaria: Yerushalmim – Jerusalemites
Who is Rachel Azaria? Would you have guessed that this dynamo is a religious, 35-year-old woman, mother of four children, ranging in ages from ten years to eight months?
Rama Burshtein: A Window Into Her World
“Fill the Void” is the title of Rama Burshtein’s film that played to critical acclaim at the recent Toronto International Film Festival and earned seven Ophir Awards -- the Israeli Oscars -- including one for best film and best director, and has become Israel’s entry into the 2012 Oscars' foreign language category.
Shurat Hadin – Justice
The lesson Nitsana derived from the case as a human-rights activist and a litigator inspired her to eventually establish the Israel Law Center called, Shurat Hadin to help victims of terrorism.
Zehava Shmueli: Women’s Leadership Awardee
The Women's Leadership Award was created in 2007 by the European Athletics Development Committee to raise awareness of the issues related to women and leadership in athletics.
Laura Faiwiszevski: Passionate Pro-Israel Activist
It all started when she graduated from high school. Laura Faiwiszevski, born in West Orange, New Jersey like a number of her schoolmates, planned to spend a year of studying in Israel before entering university. Laura chose “Emuna V’Omanut” (Faith and Art), a program for American students set up by the Emunah Women Organization that focuses on a combination of Torah study and art training — a choice of music or visual arts.
Raya Jaglom: The Queen Of Multitasking
A pro at multitasking, she also held many other public offices.
The Prophetess Boushaif
When the leader of the community asked for her hand in marriage, Boushaif consented with the condition that he build a synagogue, using as its cornerstone the brick intended for the Holy Temple.
Yonat Daskal, Tal Shahar, Noam Dan and Tamar Bar-Ilan: Four Women Saving Jewish...
“On Sunday I was at the Kotel with the battalion and we said a prayer of thanks. In Gaza there were so many moments of death that I had to thank God that I'm alive. Only then did I realize how frightening it had been there.”
Return to Dachau: A Unique Gathering (Part II)
"The last living link to the Holocaust is quite a responsibility."
Agnes Keleti: The Foundation Stone Of Gymnastics In Israel
"I felt here that I was at home," remarks Agnes Keleti about her arrival in Israel in 1957. An Israeli emissary had invited this leading Hungarian Jewish female athlete to participate in the fifth Maccabiah Games that year, and that’s when she discovered that Israel was “home.”
Hillary Clinton and Suha Arafat: ‘The Two First Ladies’
The question we need to ask is: How sensitive is the former First Lady to anti-Semitism?
Sarah And Hagar
A historical drama unfolds before our eyes in this week’s Torah portion. It is a dramatic confrontation whose impact has shaped Jewish history for thousands of years.
Sarah and Hagar, two women – two worlds - faced each other.
Viera Rybarova: A Remarkable Mission
Last year Viera Rybarova, professor of English language and literature in Bratislava, Slovakia, undertook a formidable task. Having read my Holocaust memoirs, she decided to translate one of the books into Slovak, where there is still a shortage of literature on the tragic fate of the Jews seventy years ago.
Yelena Bonner: It is About Israel
Widow of world-famous nuclear scientist and human rights activist, Dr. Andre Sakharov, and an outstanding activist in her own right, Yelena Bonner was invited to speak of the suffering she endured in Stalinist Russia. Instead, the 86-year-old leader of the Russian human rights movement chose to speak about Israel and the Jews. Why?
Goldie Steinberg: Survivor Of The Kishinev Pogrom
At 104, Steinberg moved into the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Long Beach, N.Y., where she was known for her warmth and consideration for others.
Irene Burg: A Multifaceted Personality
About a year ago, my husband and I joined a new synagogue in Netanya. In the women’s section a strikingly elegant lady caught my attention. Only later, did I come to know that Irene Burg’s looks were only the tip of the iceberg.
Judith Feld Carr: Remarkable Heroine
Judith Feld Carr clearly remembers the initial impetus for her extraordinary activities in the rescue of Syrian Jewry: "When I was 10 years old, Sophie told me, you have to do something so that this never happens again to the Jewish people.' I never forgot it."
Jewish Survival in the Face of Existential Threats: a Focus on Women
When I started to speak and my words drowned in tears, it was she who comforted me.