Alona Ferber
By Alona Ferber
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News Jerusalem Orthodox Seminaries Refund Girls’ Tuition Over Sex Abuse Scandal
(Haaretz) — Following accusations of sex assault and fraud, four religious seminaries in Jerusalem have agreed to refund tuition to 13 American families. The four girls seminaries — Pninim, Binas Bais Yaakov, Chedvas Bais Yaakov and Keser Chaya, which are located in Jerusalem and have a large number of American students — were sued in…
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Israel News Can Women Make Up 50% of Israel’s Coders By 2024?
(Haaretz) — The setting couldn’t be further from the startup nation stereotype: a low-ceilinged bungalow classroom in sleepy Givat Haviva in northern Israel, a litter of kittens meandering in and out, and not quite enough electricity outlets to charge your laptop, but the 40 or so Israeli women crowding the tables are making high-tech history. This…
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News Women of Wall Slip Torah Scroll Into Western Wall Bat Mitzvah
(Haaretz) — Defying regulations by Western Wall rabbinic authorities, members of Women of the Wall smuggled a tiny Torah scroll into the women’s section of the Kotel Friday morning, in what the feminist prayer group said was the first reading from the Torah by women at the holy site in 25 years. The tiny scroll,…
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The Schmooze Dr. Ruth’s Sex Tips for Wartime
Getty Images (Haaretz) — If you were wondering what sexual position was most appropriate in a bomb shelter, don’t. That’s some of the advice Dr. Ruth Westheimer gave an audience in Tel Aviv Wednesday night. The sprightly 4-foot-7, 86-year-old lost her parents in the Holocaust and was a sniper in the Haganah, prestate Israel’s underground…
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The Schmooze British Film Festival Returns to Israel
Crossposted from Haaretz The British Film Festival is returning to Israel after a two-year hiatus, with a selection of movies by new and interesting voices that give audiences a glimpse into modern-day Britain. The festival, the flagship event of the British Council in Israel, will be showing ten films in seven cities — Tel-Aviv, Haifa…
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