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The army’s decision on allowing women to join elite combat units goes far beyond military service and into the heart of Israeli sociel values

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/gender-integration-of-idf-combat-units-is-a-supremely-moral-issue/

A look at the numbers for International Women’s Day: Just 9% of all cabinet ministers have been women. None were ministers of finance or defense

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/no-one-since-golda-women-politicians-in-israel-and-beyond/

As women pull ahead of men in obtaining academic degrees, men are feeling threatened and keeping them from realizing their full potential

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-to-boost-employment-of-arab-women-invest-in-educating-arab-men/

Girls who have known abuse heal and grow in their self-confidence, and avoid patterns of negative behavior; they learn positive alternatives instead

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-am-your-future-todays-teenagers-tomorrows-women/

The outcry is justified: Too many episodes have featured religious Jews refusing medical treatment, essentially trying to martyr themselves

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-do-medical-dramas-keep-perpetuating-terrible-stereotypes-about-orthodox-jews/

The heavy bleeding meant yet another setback, but even if I am never able to create the child I so long for, I’ve helped create something lasting

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-had-a-miscarriage-while-reading-megillat-esther/

This government’s violation of every Israeli’s basic right to leave and enter the country is unparalleled in any other democracy

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/another-victim-of-the-pandemic-our-fundamental-rights/

When the COVID-19 shutdown made the ’narrow place’ more reality than metaphor, weavers, sculptors, painters, and more came together with a new vision of the ancient text

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/creating-the-artists-haggadah/

To take advantage of this Jewish law, we needed to walk on water: a model airboat did the trick for most of the year, but in the Boston winter, we used a monster truck

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/eruv-technology-and-the-lovely-lagoon/

As physical beings, we people do well to recognize God as both above nature and within every blade of grass; it is the latter that enables us to connect with the Divine (Ki Tisa)

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/worshipping-god-with-the-physical/

The end is not yet in sight, but we know it’s there, so we’ve begun discussing which changes are here to stay, and how to reintegrate those who prefer solitary prayer

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/will-we-ever-truly-go-back-to-shul-do-we-want-to/

This week’s High Court ruling can help heal the Israel-Diaspora rift on conversion – and help dismantle the harmful ultra-Orthodox monopoly

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/one-small-step-for-the-court-one-large-step-for-converts/

Wladimir Riszko risked his life to hide 16 Jews, then married one of them and moved to New Zealand. We’re trying to track down all those he rescued

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/were-you-hidden-in-przemysl-poland-1942-1944-75-years-later-and-searching/

How many eminent politicians do you know who are so unpretentious that they’ll chat with a random young soldier and mop the floor of their daughter’s bakery?

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/in-search-of-a-gluten-free-chocolate-eclair-in-jerusalem/

In his new book on liberal education, the conservative professor argues the importance of inculcating the instinct for thought and reexamination

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-to-debate-bds-on-campus-jonathan-marks-says-be-reasonable/