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William Barclay

Dec 4, 2024, 9:07 PM

Hamas: Gaza’s True Enemy and Oppressor

Since the most recent outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7th, countless political actors and pundits have attempted to curry support for the Palestinian cause by re-framing Hamas as a cohort of embattled freedom fighters who struggle on...

Heidi Basch-Harod

Nov 28, 2024, 11:17 PM

Silencing the Screams One Year Later

Less than a week before Thanksgiving, Nada flew all the way from Oklahoma to show up next to me for a screening and panel discussion of Screams Before Silence and our film, Daughters of Abraham, at Southern California’s private, liberal arts Occidental College....

Nov 28, 2024, 7:07 PM

They are also war victims

Police and rescue forces at the scene of a car explosion in Ramle, November 27, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90 via Times of Israel)

Two days after International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, another two women were killed near Ramle, in the center of the country. They were killed with a car bomb that exploded into flames as the mother...

Nov 26, 2024, 6:20 PM

The Silence is Deafening and We Must be the Noise

This week on November 25th was International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. But ask yourself: what has actually changed? How did we become a world where slogans like "End violence against women" and "Believe all women" are...

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Nov 25, 2024, 7:13 PM

The Hypocrisy of Silence: When Believing Women Stops at Jewish Women

On October 7, the world witnessed an atrocity that should have shocked every conscience and mobilised every defender of human rights. Hamas militants stormed into Israel, leaving behind a trail of blood and horror. Amid the litany of barbarities—murders,...

Nov 24, 2024, 6:22 PM

The invisible violence of divorce refusal in October 7’s shadow

Domestic abuse has worsened and merits attention on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – and every day

Nov 21, 2024, 10:42 AM

Rebekah and Eliezer: Parshat Hayei Sarah

On Monday I saw the following headline in the times of Israel: 81% of sex crime complaints in Israel closed without an indictment, report says Association of Rape Crisis Centers presents figures to Knesset committee hearing; MK: ‘I feel...

Nov 20, 2024, 9:33 PM

Rabbi Calls on Jewish Men to Fight for the Honor of Their Women

Rabbi Avi Schwartz, the son of the legendary Freedom Fighter of the 1948 War of Independence, Mordechai Schwartz—known as Motke the Axeman, knows what it means to fight for what matters most. His father’s unwavering courage during Israel’s War...

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Nov 4, 2024, 1:37 PM

The Islamic Republic’s War on Women and Freedom Knows No Borders

AI Generate image courtesy of Catherine Perez-Shakdam

The arrest of a female student in Tehran, who courageously stripped down to her underwear in protest against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s oppressive dress codes, is yet another grim illustration of the regime’s endless war against personal freedom....

Nancy K. Kaufman

Nov 4, 2024, 12:06 AM

My Jewish values on reproductive care mean I’m voting for Kamala Harris

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Planned Parenthood, March. 14, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Adam Bettcher, File)

We have witnessed the catastrophic fallout of Donald Trump’s callous disregard for a woman’s right to control her own body

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