Judaism is better
when
women are
heard
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About Us
What
we do
Chochmat Nashim creates a healthier Jewish community and Israeli society by challenging — and changing — the damaging extremist trends that plague the Orthodox world. From erasing women to the plight of agunot, we highlight issues and provide the community with tools and resources to create change.
What are the issues?
Extremism
The Jewish community is sliding towards extremism — and it’s unhealthy for all of us. We can work together to maintain a moderate, healthy frum society.
Agunot
Much of the pain involved in Jewish divorce isn’t caused by Halacha, but on norms we can change. Chochmat Nashim breaks down the issues and offers ways the community can protect itself.
Erasing Women
What began in the most insular communities is now commonplace. Erasing women causes financial, health, and emotional damage to women. Help put women back in the picture.
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- Podcast
Even as the war rages in Israel, American campuses have become a whole other front line. Anne and Shoshanna speak to two US college students about their experiences of antisemitism
- Podcast
How can we celebrate when our people are in captivity? Yet, Passover isn’t cancelled this year, even if you feel it should be, so how do we make sense of
- Podcast
Adina Sash has set the Orthodox world buzzing about the strike she hopes will help agunot. Shoshanna and Anne talk to Adina about her campaign and what has come of
- Podcast
Does “Together, we will win” inspire you or depress you? Shoshanna and Anne “take the temperature” of how people are reacting differently to the same general experience of war, from
- Podcast
Shoshanna and Anne speak with the very talented Shani Weinman Kay about her experience as a religious woman in the IDF, especially during this time of war, and how her
- Podcast
In one of our more personal (and we think powerful) episodes, Shoshanna and Anne speak frankly about their respective decisions to tour some of the destroyed communities of the Gaza
- Agunot, Articles
Readers of this paper will be aware of the firestorm surrounding the Domestic Abuse Act’s recent amendment that was sp ecifically crafted to help agunot — and the full-throated objection
- Articles
Three women made headlines in the past week. Each was abused by her husband. One is dead. One nearly died. And the other is still chained to her abuser 30
- Articles, Blog, Uncategorized, Women In Judaism
What does one wear to the world’s first women’s Siyum HaShas event? The question I posed on social media was a joke, a play on the idea of worrying about
- Articles, Blog, In The Media
- Articles, עברית
הרב פנחס גולדשמידט מכיר מקרוב את סבלן של נשים עגונות. שלוש מקרובות משפחתו, ביניהן אחת ניצולת שואה נכבלו לנישואיהן מבלי יכולת לצאת לחופשי ולפתוח בפרק חדש בחיים. במשך 29 שנות