Knesset Advances Bill to Increase Access to Higher Educational for Women
The opposition to creating separate gender tracks is a discriminatory attempt to block non-westernized women from having access to higher education.
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
The opposition to creating separate gender tracks is a discriminatory attempt to block non-westernized women from having access to higher education.
A society that puts social relations & the moral wellbeing of the collective at its center will value the contributions of female leadership more than one that centers the personal success of individuals.
The media’s rush to condemn Yuval Dayan is especially troubling in light of the many allegations against Biden for inappropriately touching women.
Western feminists forcing Hebrew women to choose between our Jewish and female identities leave us without recourse to address the unique challenges we face as women in Israeli society.
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Jewish women forgot our own power.
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By identifying as white people of the Mosaic faith, Jews are by definition rejecting our Semitic heritage.