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Religious extremism in Israel. Why is it my problem?
In Israel, the religion is the state and vice versa. What happens in the religious community affects the country. Growing religious extremism, most often seen in the erasure and marginalization of women, but also in the vilification of the IDF and the state, is a danger to the health of Israeli democracy and society. What can we do about it? Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll is an activist and founder of Chochmat Nashim, an organization raising awareness of extremism and working towards a healthy Israeli and global Orthodox society.
About the Speaker
Raised in Lakewood, NJ (before it was Brooklyn), Shoshanna now lives in Israel with her family. She raises awareness of issues that plague the Jewish and world community. Topics she takes on include child sex abuse, women in Judaism, Israel-Arab conflict, and general human stupidity. She is a founding member of Chochmat Nashim, a organization dedicated to positive change in the Jewish community. Professionally, as co founder of REACH3K, she brands and writes for some of Israel’s best nonprofits & businesses.
Shoshanna also writes for The Jerusalem Post and blogs for the Times of Israel, The 5%Club and Reach3K.
About Chochmat Nashim
Extremism is gaining ground at an alarming rate in the Jewish world. Women are often disproportionately affected by these dangerous trends. When women are silenced, this imbalance is exacerbated. Chochmat Nashim amplifies the voice of religious women as the key to shifting and improving religious society. While numerous organizations address the legal, legislative and rabbinic processes that set policy from the top-down, Chochmat Nashim is the only organized force of women solely focused on shifting conversations and igniting the Jewish community toward addressing social attitudes from the bottom-up. The time is ripe with opportunity for religious women to fill a communal role and project a creative and vocal presence for the betterment of local and global Judaism.
We partner with leading organizations that share our goals and values, such as ITIM, Kolech, The Center for Women’s Justice, Mavoi Satum, Yad La’isha and the International Young Israel Movement, and others as well as members of Knesset, social activists, community rabbis and religious leaders.
