Women’s fertility conference without women

Not one woman spoke at last week’s Ninth Annual Puah Conference on Women’s Fertility. Not one! Certainly the conference opened up a discourse about intimacy and sex that was hitherto unspoken in the religious world. But the status of women as “objects” of this discourse rather than as full participants – even when it is all about us and our bodies – remained firmly in place, thus limiting the effectiveness of the conference in moving Israel towards being a more progressive society. In fact, the conference was arguably a major regression for women. Read about this on the Kolech English website, Jewish Women's Voice