The Chochmat Nashim Podcast: Women Talk Judaism

You know already that hyper-tzniut gets Chochmat Nashim riled up - it's literally the incarnation of the slide to extremism that harms Judaism for everyone. This time it's a cross-body bag, giving Shoshanna and Anne reason to remind everyone that this very Jewish value can be taken too far.

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In our annual Seat at the Seder Table episode, Anne and Shoshanna are pleased to partake of Rachel's powerful insights that help bring the Haggadah's driest parts to life, from the blurring of time to putting ourselves into the story.

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Would more women in Israel's coalition change its policies? Who knows, but they'd make a more representative government. Shoshanna and Anne discuss the reversals to women's rights that we'd never have thought would be in danger, in the wake of International Women's Day, no less.

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The Israeli public is deeply divided over legislation aimed at dramatically changing the judicial system in Israel, specifically the relationship between the government and the Supreme Court. Israelis don't agree (of course) on how best to protect the country. Anne and Shoshanna make sense of the political temperature in Israel.

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It was a brand new Chochmat Nashim project when Shoshanna and Anne first told you about it back in August, and now that it's well underway, it's ripe for an update. How many courts are reviewed on the site? Why did one dayan complain about his rating? How is it helping people who think they might want a divorce? And what about that new training program to help the judges get the perfect 5-star reviews they want?

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Chochmat Nashim crossover with Orthodox Conundrum. Join Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll and Rabbi Scott Kahn in a powerful conversation about how disappointment in rabbinic figures lead her to be the person she is today.

When there's so much going on that each story demands our attention, in brief, Anne and Shoshanna bring you 5 "shorts": To die an agunah; Rabbi Moshe Kahn z"l; Erased women fail to inspire; Can a witness invalidate herself?; and Israel's newly certified learned women.

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What are we to do when those who hold positions of responsibility don't rise to the occasion of their office? Worse, what do we do when they criticize local efforts for tackling the very thing they should have addressed, but didn't? Shoshanna and Anne wrestle with the need for righteous moral leaders and the terrible absence of enough such people.

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Ben Shapiro's recent article posed a challenge for Anne, Shoshanna, and their guest, Dr. Yardaena Osband: Where can Modern Orthodoxy improve? Together, they raise concerns about what the community faces and the need for leadership and personal conviction going forward.

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