Amira Dotan
Member of Knesset and retired Brigadier-General
Feminism is the ability to do what you want to do. It must be on the table immediately that there are two different genders. Women need to believe that men are who they are and we are who we are, and to be proud of who we are instead of spending so much energy imitating men. Then we will have more energy to do what we want to do, and questions of harassment and violence lessen because men see you as equal. [...]
Chana Pasternak
Director of Kolech–Religious Women’s Forum
The men always express themselves, and they are heard, but the voices, especially of religious women, aren’t heard. And all religious responsibility has been for men, very little for women. It’s time women should be heard. [...]
Haviva Ner-David
Rabbi and activist for equal religious rights for women
When my kids are fighting, I sometimes get impatient and exclaim, “Why can’t you just get along?” In the same way, I feel the Arabs and Jews to be siblings, and I am like a mother figure looking on and saying, “This is ridiculous. Everyone take a [...]
