Tiki Krakowski
By Tiki Krakowski
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Life Where are ‘All the Single Ladies’ in Israel?
Deborah the Prophetess stands before the people of Israel. “Listen,” she calls out, “did not the Lord, God of Israel command: ‘Go, march on Mt. Tabor…’” “What about the children?” a heckler calls out. “Who’s taking care of your children when you’re out prophesizing in the middle of the day?” You won’t find this exchange…
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Life The ‘Crisis’ of the Single Orthodox Woman
The recent publication of “Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game” by Jon Birger and his accompanying piece in TIME has set off a flurry of discussion on demographics in dating. Josh Yuter’s response in the Sisterhood, for example, critically examined the so-called Shidduch crisis and found the argument wanting. I read his piece…
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Life Head of Ultra-Orthodox Women’s Party Answers Haters
Ruth Colian, the founder of Haredi Women Making Change, speaks with Israeli voters. Photograph by Bruce Shaffer/Hidden Sparks Photography. In the women’s section of the haredi news site kikar.co, Ruth Colian the founder and and head of the ultra-Orthodox women’s party U’bezchutan — literally, “in their [women’s] merit” — writes about what motivated her to…
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Life Letting Women In the Kitchen
Avivit Ravia, one of two female kosher supervisors for Hashgacha Pratit, visits Carousela restaurant. Photograph by Naomi Zeveloff. There is a black and white photograph that my grandmother took of my great-grandmother hanging in my mother’s house and in the houses of all of my great-grandmother’s descendants. In it, my great-grandmother is standing at her…
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Life Israeli Media’s Sexist Election Coverage
A political cartoon depicting Tzipi Livni, Stav Shaffir, Merav Michaeli and Shelly Yachimovich sitting around a kitchen table while Yitzhak Herzog washes dishes. “First things first,” Livni says, “we’ll give him the right to remain silent.” Screenshot via Facebook. In some ways the past few years have been very good to women in Israeli politics….
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Life Mimicking the GOP, Naftali Bennett’s Lady-Themed Ad Is Not a Good Thing
Screenshot vis YouTube Women like to talk about men. They also like to exercise. And often do these two things at once. At least that’s what I learned from Naftali Bennett’s new campaign video. In it a pair of attractive seemingly secular women appear in five vignettes. In each vignette they are shown conversing about…
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Life Sorry Bnei Akiva, You Can’t ‘Dance at Two Weddings’
I never belonged to a youth group. I never attended Bnei Akiva on Shabbat afternoons. This probably makes me a bit of an anomaly as someone who grew up in a religious community, but I was always sort of an outsider, and that’s fine. So the YouTube video publicized in Haaretz’s recent article of a…
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