Palestinian Declaration of Independence – Algiers Declaration (1988)
Preamble
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful,
Palestine, the land of the ...
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Tag Archives: Women’s Rights
Marriage Equality Victories Show How Change Happens, One Step at a Time
Before 2004, no state allowed same-sex marriage. Today, it's legal in 12 states and the ...
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Lillian Wald (1867 – 1940)
Lillian D. Wald (March 10, 1867 – September 1, 1940) was an American nurse, humanitarian ...
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Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
She was born to a rebellious Scotch Presbyterian mother, ...
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Ernestine Rose (1810 – 1892)
By Janet Freedman
“I was a rebel at the age of five,” said Ernestine Rose. She ...
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“The Divorce Force” by J.J. Goldberg
March 19, 1998
Gangs of masked, Yiddish-speaking thugs in Brooklyn have been abducting ...
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Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (b. 1942)
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky is quite a woman—she is a mother, a former journalist, a ...
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“The Power of Women in Advancing the Cause of Gender Justice” by Kelly Askin
March 7, 2013
As the world marks International Women’s Day on March 8, I’d like to ...
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“Gender” by Paula E. Hyman
The social and hierarchical construction of the differences between the sexes, gender is also ...
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“O My America: Abortion and Religious Freedom, Part 1” by Lawrence Bush
January 19, 2013
While the movement for reproductive rights still has the numbers on its ...
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“O My America: Abortion and Religious Freedom, Part 2” by Lawrence Bush
Two fundamental concepts underlie the Jewish belief that the mother’s life always takes ...
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Short History
Equality of rights for women is a basic principle of the United Nations. The sets as one of ...
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Overview
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), ...
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Summary
INTRODUCTION
On 18 December 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...
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Promoting Gender Equality
Background on Key International Agreements and Declarations
UNFPA’s work in the area of ...
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“The Big Jewcy: Steph Herold – Reproductive Rights Activist” by Emily Goldsher
“I have the privilege of not having to wrestle each day with dissonance between my faith and ...
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Bella Abzug (1920 – 1998)
Bella was "born yelling" in 1920. A daughter of Russian immigrants, she grew up poor in ...
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“Safeguarding Access to Reproductive Care” by Suzanne Crowell
Nothing dramatizes the stakes for women’s access to reproductive health care at the state ...
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“Abortion: Perspective from Jewish Traditions” by Rabbi Raymond A. Zwerin and Rabbi Richard J. Shapiro
The issue of abortion in Jewish life is both complex and multi-faceted, with roots going back ...
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“Women in Rabbinic Literature” by Judith Baskin
While the rabbis of the Talmud--consistent with the times in which they lived--prescribed ...
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“Post-Biblical and Rabbinic Women” by Tal Ilan
In post-biblical Jewish antiquity women were not viewed as equal to men or as full Jews. In ...
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“Can Women Be Rabbis?” by Hershel Shachter
Editor's Note: the following is in response to various communications which I have received: ...
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“On Women in Rabbinic Leadership Positions” by Daniel Sperber
Introduction
There are those who argue that our whole halakhic system is skewed by ...
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“On the Ordination of Women as Rabbis” by Joel Roth
The question of the ordination of women can be analyzed halakhically either narrowly or ...
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What is the Conservative view of the role of women in Judaism?
The past 30 years have seen a revolution in how Conservative Judaism views women. Conservative ...
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“A History of Women’s Ordination as Rabbis” by Avi Hein
Up until the haskalah, the Jewish enlightenment, the idea of women rabbis would have ...
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN; French: Organisation des Nations unies, ONU) is world's largest, ...
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“Gender roles examined” by Arieh O’Sullivan
Israel is one of just a few countries that subjects its women to mandatory draft and has a ...
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History of Human Rights
Although belief in the sanctity of human life has ancient precedents in many religions of the ...
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 1979 (resolution 34/180) and entered into ...
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