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Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to make the religious, legal, and social status of Jewish women equal to that of Jewish men in Judaism. Feminist movements, with varying approaches and successes, have opened up within all major branches of the Jewish religion.
Under Jewish Law, Orthodox Jewish women refrain from bodily contact with their husbands while they are menstruating and for 7 days afterwards, and after the birth of a child. The Israeli Rabbinate allows women to act as yoatzot , halakhic advisers on matters considered sensitive and personal such as niddah .
Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810 – August 4, 1892) [1] was a suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker who has been called the “first Jewish feminist.” [2] Her career spanned from the 1830s to the 1870s, making her a contemporary to the more famous suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. [3]
Judith Plaskow (born March 14, 1947) is an American theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian. [1] After earning her doctorate at Yale University, she taught at Manhattan College for thirty-two years before becoming a professor emerita.
Feminist Jewish scholars point out the mistreatment of women in the Torah. They argue that it is an ethical imperative to engage in the interpretation of the Torah using a feminist lens. A Jewish Feminist critique of the Torah is attentive to phenomena in the text such as the absence, silence, distortion, or subjugation of women in the text.
Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to make the religious, political, and social status of Jewish women equal to that of Jewish men. Feminist movements, with varying approaches and successes, have opened up within all major denominations of Judaism.
This is an alphabetical list of Jewish feminists. ... Jewish feminism; Judaism and women; Jewish left; List of feminists; Jewish mother stereotype; Jewish-American ...
These early campaigns were rooted in the ideology of Israeli socialism. A feature of this era is the women who sought to be treated as equals, chiefly in the areas of agricultural labor in the kibbutzim and within the workers' parties. [ 2 ]