Shulamit S. Magnus

The author is a professor of Jewish history, a founder of Women of the Wall and lead plaintiff in the current Supreme Court case to enforce the rights of Jewish women to full religious expression at the Western Wall.

 CENTER FOR Women’s Justice convenes a private rabbinic court to annul the marriage of Israel’s longest-standing agunah, Tzvia Gorodetsky (dressed in white), in 2018.

Change Jewish marriage methods to free agunot - opinion

THE FACES of women are defaced on a billboard in Jerusalem

Is silencing women, holding them captive to be the norm in Israel?

the Dawabsha house which was set on fire in a suspected attack by Jewish extremists in Duma.

Is our history wasted on us? - opinion


Who benefits from the coronavirus crisis?

Unless there is a rational, coherent, long-term strategy for how to handle this crisis, we will just keep sputtering along, inflicting pain for no purpose.

ISRAELIS DEMONSTRATE against the three-week nationwide lockdown and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on a Tel Aviv beach, September 19, 2020

Why did US Jewish orgs. go to Saudi Arabia, and why did they hide it?

The fact that nearly all the participants are hiding their involvement is a worrisome sign.

FROM LEFT, The Conference of Presidents’ Malcolm Hoenlein, Arthur Stark and William Daroff at a press conference in Jerusalem last month about their visit to Saudi Arabia.

Now is the moment: An open letter to Benny Gantz and Blue and White

How urgent is it that we say finis to Netanyahu and to a Netanyahu-led Likud, and to their partners, including the haredi parties?

Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz (L) and Yair Lapid (R) embrace during a campaign event, February 21st, 2019

No ‘business as usual’ for unrepentant sex abusers

It’s impossible to specify a number of years that an unrepentant abuser should be ostracized.

The sun peaks over the New York Times Building in New York August 14, 2013

No gender apartheid in Israeli universities

Sexism is racism towards women.

STUDENTS AT Hebrew University in Jerusalem

The growing threat to Israeli constitutional democracy

The Supreme Court has ruled blanket draft exemption for haredim as unconstitutional and the clock the court set has been ticking for legislation to be passed that it deems constitutional.

An ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, Jewish man walks past Israeli soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Haredi infantry battalion during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem

Despair and clear thinking at the most recent round

There are others – Netanyahu and Likud – who maintain that what we are doing is what we must do, just more of the same, harder, better.

Elections 2019: Who will Israel choose?

Despair and clear thinking at the most recent round

Netanyahu deals with Hamas – whether in deals via the Egyptians, dollars in suitcases from Qatar, or in bombs – because he prefers this to dealing with the Palestinian Authority.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh next to his destroyed office (REUTERS/Handout)

Despair and clear thinking at the most recent round

And if we did “vanquish” Hamas, then what? No one is even suggesting that Israel take over Gaza.

An IDF Artillery Corps soldier stationed near Gaza City partakes in morning prayers, September 26, 2015

Pay-to-play Zionism

The AZM should be doing everything possible to encourage participation in the election.

Have some American Jews replaced Judaism with liberalism?