Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

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Nov 21, 2024, 1:45 PM

Et tu, OU? And after you said you never erase women…

Recent issues of Torah Tidbits. (courtesy)

When the Orthodox Union's Torah Tidbits keeps women off its covers and can't reach its ideal female/male-writers ratio, we have little hope of a healthy Orthodoxy

Nov 10, 2024, 12:33 PM

The premeditated Amsterdam pogrom of 2024

As the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I don't use Holocaust terminology lightly. I don't say concentration camp if it's not a concentration camp. I don't say ghetto if it's not a ghetto. I don't say pogrom if it's not...

Aug 1, 2024, 4:28 PM

Crying with the mourners in Majdal Shams

A memorial to the 12 children who were playing soccer when they were killed by Hezbollah's rocket, in Majdal Shams. (courtesy)

The drive was long and my family worried, but I had to pay my respects: Those kids could have been my kids

Jul 22, 2024, 3:52 PM

God, the original feminist

'The Rape of Dinah,' by Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini ca. 1554. (WIkimedia Commons)

In today’s Orthodox world, there are actors who see it as their mission to prove that Jewish marriage is meant to be a trap, that men are within their rights to withhold a woman’s freedom, and that divorce is...

Mar 20, 2024, 3:13 PM

5 steps to save Jewish marriage

(Adina Sash, screenshot from social media reels)

When the community takes matters into its own hands to free chained women awaiting divorce, the rabbis follow suit

Feb 22, 2024, 10:23 PM

The Anglo women running for city council

There is nothing more important than representation for making change. I’ve seen it in my own work for Jewish women’s rights and it is obvious to me as a resident of Beit Shemesh for 16 years. When people aren’t...

Dec 31, 2023, 3:41 PM

We must determine what went wrong, so we can make it right

Soldiers are seen monitoring surveillance cameras at a command center at the IDF’s Re’im camp in southern Israel, November 5, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

If Israel doesn't ask the hard questions now, how will the people in power whose errors led to October 7th avoid them?

Aug 23, 2023, 2:41 PM

The slippery slope of gender segregation

Teenage girls on a bus from Ashdod to Safed who say they were asked by the driver to go to the back of the bus, cover up their summer outfits and put on blankets so as not to offend Haredi passengers on August 13, 2023. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Why MK Idit Silman's plan for separate hours at natural pools harms the people it's supposed to help

Jul 27, 2023, 4:48 PM

How she sits alone: For these I weep

'For these I weep.' (iStock)

I shed tears of pain for all that should never have befallen our daughters, Jewish marriage, Jewish leadership, or the Torah itself

Jun 14, 2023, 4:27 PM

Haredi publications’ new offense: Erasing a fallen Israeli Jewish female soldier

Staff Sgt. Ohad Dahan, 20 (left), Sgt. Lia Ben Nun, 19 (center) and Staff Sgt. Ori Yitzhak Iluz, 20, combat soldiers in the IDF's Bardelas and Caracal battalions who were shot dead on the Egyptian border on June 3, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

It's time to see ultra-Orthodox erasure of women for what it is: disrespect and devaluation of worthy human beings

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About Me

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll is a writer and an activist. Cofounder of chochmatnashim.org She loves her people enough to call out the nonsense. See her work at skjaskoll.com