ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How has the Supreme Court in Israel made decisions that support the position the Orthodox feminists?

Tanya Zion-Waldoks  is a lecturer in the Seymour Fox School of Education at Hebrew University.  She received her Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan’s Gender Studies program, a Kreitman and Israel Institute post-doctoral fellowship at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and a Rothschild and ISF postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. She specializes in topics related to religion, education,  politics, and gender, and their points of connection, with a focus on social change. Zion-Waldocks’ work has been published in leading journals such as Gender & Society and Signs. Her most recent book, co-authored with Ronit Irshai, is Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women’s Rights in Israel. It is an in-depth study of Jewish religion and law in Israel from a gendered perspective, and will be published in the spring of 2024.  

This week Tanya is speaking with us about the Haredi world, the emergence of Orthodox feminism, and her new book.