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May 22, 2018, 2:12 PM

A prying shame: The public scrutiny of get refusers

In May 2017, Zvia Gordetsky launched a hunger strike outside the Knesset after being refused a religious bill of divorce for 17 years (Courtesy)

We need to stop publicly prying into the nitty gritty of people's marriages and divorces in agunah cases

May 18, 2018, 10:39 AM

#MeToo at Mount Sinai

Moses Breaking the Tables of the Law (1659) by Rembrandt. (Wikipedia)

How could the Children of Israel stand in God's powerful presence and truly consent to His command?

May 11, 2018, 12:39 AM

Defying conventions

Illustrative: Orthodox Jewish women attend a kashrut supervision course at the Emunah Seminary College for Jewish Women’s Studies in Jerusalem on April 18, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

When Religious Zionist rabbis discuss women's roles in shul, childbirth, and feminism -- in a woman-free zone

Jan 16, 2018, 9:08 PM

Writing her own Song of Glory

Mor Berenshtein, Shir HaKavod. (screenshot, YouTube)

With the synagogue podium off-limits, Orthodox female musician Mor Berenshtin cries out to God from the stage

Oct 26, 2017, 1:42 AM

Immigrants: We get the job done — Aliyah Day

Have Americans been conditioned to waltz into other countries and tell everyone how to run things better?

May 28, 2017, 8:03 PM

She’s no laity: Orthodox women clergy and the problem of titles

Titles Orthodox women clergy CAN use (well, maybe), since the one concocted to avoid 'rabbi' is out

Mar 9, 2017, 12:20 PM

This #NoAgunahDay, let’s #GettProactive

A social media campaign pushes people to recognize personal agency, reject passivity, and shift their mindset on agunot

Mar 23, 2016, 10:54 AM

Agunah Day: Stepping out from behind the mask

On this day for wives left in painful limbo by recalcitrant husbands, it's time to look these women in the eye

Feb 22, 2016, 11:36 AM

Public shaming: Celebrating ineptitude in the Beit Din

The rabbis who prescribed shaming for Oded Guez shirked their moral responsibility and dragged us all into the mud

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About Me

Rachel Stomel is a literary translator, graphic designer and slam poet. She is passionate about social justice in the Jewish community, with a special focus on women’s rights and issues of religion and state.