Archive for the 'Gender' Category

What the Israeli Embassy replied about Women of the Wall


I sent the Israeli Embassy an email provided to me by NIF and the Religious Action Center of the Reform movement, supporting the Women of the Wall’s call for gender equality at the Kotel/Western Wall. This is their reply. Pfft.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: IsraelEmb DC
Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:54 PM
Subject: RE: In [...]


Men are (in) trouble


This masculinity in progressive Judaism topic is deeply interesting to me. The furor online and off revealed an issue of great disagreement within progressive Jewish circles. The outburst of passionate opinion said as much — 120 comments don’t come from nowhere. Those are the topics really worth pursuing.
I have been searching for ways to [...]


Man Power


I’m thinking a lot about the recent “male space” kerfuffle on Jewschool. It’s not the first time and I’d say it’s one of the larger disagreements in our online community. The recent kerfuffle is summarized as follows: I posted a men’s only synagogue event to Jewschool, featuring two male celebrities on the topic of the [...]