With a minimum donation of $54 receive a Chochmat Nashim calendar with beautiful images from the Jewish Life Photo Bank. Important dates, reminders and resources – everything you need and more!!
With a minimum donation of $54 receive a Chochmat Nashim calendar with beautiful images from the Jewish Life Photo Bank. Important dates, reminders and resources – everything you need and more!!
The erasure of women, which began a scant 20 years ago has now taken over frum publications. Women and girls do not exist and have been cut out visually from frum life. We see this as a travesty, a falsehood and a damaging trend plaguing our community.
Erasing women harms our financial, health and religious rights. It also portrays boys and men as incapable of normal, healthy relationships with women. This intense segregation and erasure leads to hypersexualization and in the worst cases, inability to function as a healthy marital couple.
Chochmat Nashim, with the help of over 200 volunteers around the world created The Jewish Life Photo Bank to positively represent Jewish life — with women and girls, at work, in religious life, as families and more! The bank is growing and we are planning more photoshoots.
Please use these images in your projects and share the bank with friends and coworkers. We can push back the trend of erasing women by removing the fear and showing the beauty of visible female representation.
The exposure of Chaim Walder, the formerly beloved author and counselor, as a serial sexual abuser and his subsequent suicide sent shockwaves through the Haredi community. But, it was the praise heaped upon him and the claims by leadership that slander had killed him that was too much for the Haredi street to bear.
Devastated at the defense of a predator, and blaming of the victims, a number of Haredi women decided to take action. Chochmat Nashim’s Hila Hassan Lefkowitz was one of them. Together with the other activists, Chochmat Nashim ran a fundraising campaign that funded a revolution.
On one side, an image with a girl, her mouth covered by a male hand with a bracelet that says, “Slander doesn’t speak to me.”
On the other, messages and Daas Torah on the importance of listening to victims of sexual abuse and reporting abusers.
Week 2 – 750,000 fliers and posters were distributed. The first was a double sided page with words of rabbinic support for victims of abuse and in favor of speaking up. The second was geared towards children and addressed the topics of touch and secrets in age appropriate language.
The fliers achieved massive change:
To raise awareness of the importance of the Aguna issue, and why it matters who sits on the bench of the Beit Din, Chochmat Nashim published and distributed the Agunat Shabbat Shabbat sheet to thousands of synagogues around the country. A strongly written satirical look at the way a solution can be found for just about anything, except a woman chained in marriage.
Read all the details, and the ynet article about Agunat Hashabbat.
