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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.
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.
First World Congress of Jewish Women, 1923; Jewish feminism. List of Jewish feminists; Women as theological figures. Women rabbis and Torah scholars; Rebbetzin (Yiddish) or Rabbanit (Hebrew) (Orthodox rabbi's wife) List of women in the Bible; Bais Yaakov (schools for Haredi girls) Niddah (menstruation laws)
This is an alphabetical list of Jewish feminists. Jewish feminists Bella Abzug (1920–1998) [1] Kathy Acker; Arlene Agus (1949–2024) Chantal Akerman (1950–2015 ...
Arlene Agus (March 17, 1949 – December 2024) was an American Orthodox Jewish feminist and writer. She was "an early advocate of Orthodox feminism [and] a prominent advocate for Soviet Jewry," and was perhaps best known for reviving women's observance of Rosh Chodesh.
According to Judith Plaskow, the main grievances of early Jewish feminists were women's exclusion from the all-male prayer group or minyan, women's exemption from positive time-bound mitzvot (mitzvot meaning the 613 commandments given in the Torah at Mount Sinai and the seven rabbinic commandments instituted later, for a total of 620), and ...
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]
Bella Savitzky was born on July 24, 1920, in New York City. [6] Both of her parents were Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Chernihiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). [7] [8] [9] Her mother, Esther (née Tanklevsky or Tanklefsky), was a homemaker who immigrated from Kozelets in 1902. [7]