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Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Oct 16, 2025, 11:33 AM

The real war and how we write the rest of the story

After Simchat Torah at Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, with its diverse mix of people, a small snapshot of Israeli society, on October 14, 2025. (courtesy)

We Israelis step up for each other admirably, but we're not great at mutual respect. It's time to practice giving the benefit of the doubt

Jul 18, 2025, 4:18 PM

in memoriam

‘All in’: A final tribute to Laura Ben-David

I have written this speech a thousand times in the last two years. In my nightmares. In the moments I acknowledged my deepest fears. In the times I knew that the biggest gift in my life, the thing too...

Jun 22, 2025, 5:52 PM

Why attacking the Iran Nuclear program was the right move

This post is for people who find themselves bewildered that Israel and the US have attacked Iran's nuclear program- or know someone who is. I am not a historian. Nor am I an expert in the Iranian Islamic Regime,...

Apr 1, 2025, 12:28 AM

Through her lens: Laura Ben-David

PHOTO ESSAY: My dear friend sees things sharply, generously, and not only with her camera. She's changed my take too, and the Jewish Life Photo Bank that now bears her name

Feb 19, 2025, 4:04 PM

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Who is righteous? The kind, brave women who came out of Gaza, that’s who

If biblical Israel was redeemed from Egypt thanks to the women of the day, I have no doubt who will provide the merit for modern Israel's redemption

Nov 21, 2024, 1:45 PM

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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

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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

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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

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