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Chochmat Nashim creates change in the global Jewish society by challenging dangerous  trends in Jewish communities around the world. Using new and traditional media we shed light on societal norms that exclude women and feed extremism.

We target the increasing erasure of women from publications, the exclusion of women from policy making decisions, poor health due to hyper-modesty, and the damage to the Jewish community as a result of these trends. We identify the issues, articulate them to a global audience and give communities tools for change. 

Our work can be seen in The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, The Forward, The UK Jewish Chronicle, Kipa.co.il, our JewishCoffeeHouse.com podcast, and here on our site.

Our Mission

Chochmat Nashim believes that Judaism is better when women are heard. With voices in policymaking, community activism, and religious discourse, women’s involvement will directly engender a healthier, sustainable Jewish world.

Making change

in the community

Extremism is gaining ground at an alarming rate in the Jewish world. Women are often disproportionately affected by these dangerous trends. When women are silenced, this imbalance is exacerbated. Chochmat Nashim amplifies the voice of religious women as the key to shifting and improving religious society. While numerous organizations address the legal, legislative and rabbinic processes that set policy from the top-down, Chochmat Nashim is the only organized force of women solely focused on shifting conversations and igniting the Jewish community toward addressing social attitudes from the bottom-up. The time is ripe with opportunity for religious women to fill a communal role and project a creative and vocal presence for the betterment of local and global Judaism.

Collaborations:

Stronger Together

We partner with leading organizations that share our goals and values, such as ITIM, Kolech, The Center for Women’s Justice, Mavoi Satum, Yad La’isha and the International Young Israel Movement, and others as well as members of Knesset, social activists, community rabbis and religious leaders.

Who We Are

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
Director

Shoshanna lives in Israel with her family and writes and speaks on women and Judaism, Israel, and other contemporary issues. You can read her work in The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The UK Jewish Chronicle, The Forward or visit her site www.skjaskoll.com.

Anne Gordon

Anne Gordon Podcast CoHost​

Anne has spent many years learning and teaching Torah in the women’s institutions of learning of Jerusalem and New York. She is currently the Deputy Ops & Blogs editor at the Times of Israel, and is working on a very slow doctorate in Jewish education.

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