Teenage girls in Jewish day schools are consistently less confident than boys in political and historical discussions. That’s a systemic failure, writes a professor of Jewish studies and sociology.

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Based on the true story of Deborah Feldman, a Jewish woman who left the Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in search of a new life, the hit Netflix series “Unorthodox” has brought Hasidic ...

"Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte" brings attention to the influence Jewish women exerted as artists, designers, and patrons in early 20th-century Vienna. Still from The Kiss ...

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Rachel Wisniewski‘s “L’dor Vador” highlights campers’ experiences over three summers at a 102-year-old Jewish summer camp in the Poconos.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Shulamith of Brooklyn, a 95-year-old Jewish girls’ school with a rich legacy, is on the brink of closure, sparking a community-wide effort to save the beloved educational ...

Hannah Lupton Reinhard, "Song of the Sea" (2021), oil and Swarovski crystals on canvas, 60 x 84 inches (image courtesy the Artist and Rusha & Co., Los Angeles) The girls and women in Hannah Lupton ...

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First kiss? Jewish girl. First cigarette? Jewish girl. First bong rip? Jewish girl. Seemingly every “bad” thing we did as a kid was in cahoots with a Jewish gal named Sarah we’d met in third grade.