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NEW RELEASE: Conversations with my Body

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Elana Sztokman
Sunday, 20 December 2020
JewFem Blog: Social Activism

I'm excited to announce that I will be releasing a new book this month: Conversations with my Body: Essays on my life as a Jewish woman. This collection of published and unpublished works on topics including 'modesty', voice, hair, sexuality, fat-shaming, body-image, and more marks an important milestone in my life. This year has been the 25th year...
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If you think Trump is a friend of the Jews, you are a 'freier'

Elana Sztokman
Friday, 16 October 2020
JewFem Blog: Social Activism
Below is the text of the op-ed that i wrote in today's JPost -- but here it includes all the useful links for those interested in my sources. The latest argument put forth by Trump supporters on these pages – he is a repugnant but you should vote for him anyway because he is good for the Jews – is head-spinning in its obscenity. This argument,...
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So much to pray for this coming year....

Elana Sztokman
Friday, 18 September 2020
JewFem Blog: Social Activism
  So much to wish and pray for in this coming year.....  Wishing for humanity to find sources of light and love, and the courage to let go of all the darkness, hatred and fear... Wishing for changes in leadership around the world, for more compassion and empathy, more women's voices, more celebration of diversity, an end to authoritariani...
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Why I'm doing what I'm doing

Elana Sztokman
Wednesday, 05 August 2020
JewFem Blog: Social Activism
It's 3:11 AM and I can't sleep. I have too much to do, and too many thoughts floating through my head.  I have been serving as Vice Chair for Media and Policy for Democrats Abroad Israel since the 2016 elections. But it's mostly been on a low flame. Now, however, as the election is less than 100 days away, an election that may in fact be ...
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Will there be Orthodox women rabbis in Israel?

Elana Sztokman
Sunday, 12 July 2020
JewFem Blog: Social Activism
The headlines heralded what many of us have been agitating for years: Orthodox women are going to be recognized as rabbis in Israel. All over social media, Orthodox women virtually cheered, as did their allies. But that excitement after last week's decision by Israel's attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, to require the rabbinate to accept women's...
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About the Jewish men in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit

Elana Sztokman
Wednesday, 08 July 2020
JewFem Blog: Social Activism

Alan Dershowitz seems nervous. That was clear in his interview in the new Netflix documentary, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich , that chronicles Epstein's sex trafficking operation. Dershowitz challenged his accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, to say on camera that she was forced to have sex with him 'six or seven times'. She did just that. It does not...
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Well, we didn't win any seats, but we won in other ways

Elana Sztokman
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
JewFem Blog: Social Activism
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​The Kol Hanashim Women's Party did not, alas, make it into the Knesset, but we certainly made waves.  With a diverse list of women -- Jewish, Muslim and Christian; from North, Center and South; religious and non-religious, immigrants and veterans; young mothers, single women and grandmothers; able and disabled; straight and LGBT; women of all...
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Why We Started a New Women’s Political Party in Israel

Elana Sztokman
Thursday, 06 February 2020
JewFem Blog: Social Activism

Every time I turn on my computer, I remember why I decided to form a women's political party. Not alone, obviously, but with a diverse and talented group of women. Nevertheless, I am constantly reminded about what brought me here, every time the screen comes to life. No matter how many ad-blockers I use, the ads are constant: Do I want a hot babe? ...
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This week's media round-up: The new Women's Party, Cyprus, and Trump

Elana Sztokman
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
JewFem Blog: Social Activism

Here is this week's media round up: My Cypriot sister-in-arms, Magda Zenon, interviewed me about our new political party, Kol Hanashim. The 30-minute long podcast delves into the hows and whys of starting this party, the challenges ahead, and the hopes for women's equality and inclusion. Take a listen here. Moya Lothian-McLean of Gal-Dem inter...
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I went to Cyprus to support the rape victim. Here is what happened.

Elana Sztokman
Tuesday, 07 January 2020
JewFem Blog: Social Activism
I spent the morning at the Cypriot courthouse with 70 other Israelis protesting the sentencing of a rape victim for "public mischief", a crime she was charged with because she dared go to the police to report a gang-rape. Despite the evidence supporting her story — 35 bruises on her arms and legs and genitals, 12 condoms, blood, pathology reports s...
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