When [White Girl] Feminism Harms Women
Western feminists forcing Hebrew women to chose between our Jewish and female identities leave us without recourse to address the unique challenges we face as women in Israeli society.
Sharona eshet-Kohen has spent several years developing a postcolonial approach to Jewish issues, with a special focus on applying transnational feminist theory to issues confronting Jewish women. Her doctoral studies at Ben-Gurion University focused on Marxist and Messianic ideologies within the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (Leḥi) underground. While completing her Masters degree in theories of nationalism at UCLA, Sharona created the Doreinu program, aimed at facilitating deeper conversations for young professionals surrounding topics of Jewish identity and national consciousness. As an undergraduate student of economics and legal studies at UC Berkeley, she was a founder and president of Tikvah Students for Israel
Western feminists forcing Hebrew women to chose between our Jewish and female identities leave us without recourse to address the unique challenges we face as women in Israeli society.
Too many details of the trial cause me to suspect this to have been a severe miscarriage of justice for both Amiram ben-Uliel and the Dawabsheh family.
Most Israelis oppose what they perceive to be offensive mock Jewish practices at our sacred places and prefer such sites be maintained by those learned in Israel’s ancient laws and customs.
Jewish women forgot our own power.
Most of us are familiar with the fictional “Red Tent” – the quintessential image for liberal Jewish feminists of the segregation, discrimination, and general…
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) said Monday that Western nations will absorb African asylum seekers from Israel. The announcement came after Jerusalem signed…
Jewish women today have sacrificed many of their authentic values without even being aware of it. My experience teaching young Jewish women has taught…
By identifying as white people of the Mosaic faith, Jews are by definition rejecting our Semitic heritage.