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The Politics of Division and Diversion

By Rabbi Sharon Brous — 2017

Millions of people around the world took to the streets in Women’s Marches, proclaiming fidelity to basic fundamental rights for women, people with disabilities, religious minority groups, immigrants and all vulnerable populations.

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'Love jihad' law seen trampling women's hard-earned freedoms in India

When Mehak’s parents found out she was having a relationship with a Muslim man, they locked her in her bedroom, seized her phone and bank cards and installed security cameras at their home in northern India.

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Roli Srivastava
2021
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Missing: Humanist Women

Who’s the first person who comes to mind when you think of humanism or atheism? A follow-up question: Did you just think of a man?

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Krista Cox
2020
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‘There’s no one right way to kohenet’: The Hebrew priestess movement aims to center women’s voices

If the idea of a Hebrew priestess seems radical, it may not be for long. Rachel Kann is one of nearly 100 graduates of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute who are seeking to reclaim ancient Jewish forms of female spiritual leadership while pushing the edges of theology and religious practice.

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Esther D. Kustanowitz
2021
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Efforts by Women of Faith to Achieve Gender Equality

Here are five ways in which women of faith are fighting for gender equality at work and in broader society—empowering young women as feminist and womanist theologians, faith community leaders, social justice advocates, and elected officials.

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Rachel Koehler, Gwen Calais-Haase
2018
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Saw the Biblical Deborah as a Role Model

As the president of Union, Serene Jones had the chance to spend a lot of time with Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she visited, both behind and in front of the stage she held so nobly.

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Serene Jones
2020
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“Psychological Abuse Exists Everywhere.”

Sherin Khankan, 45, is Denmark’s first female Imam and the founder of Exitcircle, an NGO for victims of psychological abuse.

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Anne Sofie Hoffmann Schrøder
2021
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To the ‘Experts in Humanity’: Since When Did Women Become the Problem?

“The Church, expert in humanity, has a perennial interest in whatever concerns men and women” a new document from Rome begins. After that the expertise, sincere as it may be, gets cloudy.

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Joan Chittister
2004
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