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“Is it even possible to be an Orthodox woman historian?” The first time I was asked this, I laughed. It had never even occurred to me—then—that it was a serious question. I was a graduate of a Bais Yaakov high school and an elite liberal arts college, enrolled in the top women’s history Ph.D. program […]
As a lawyer and professor of business law, I have found that women bring their own brand of values to an employment setting. (Of course we do!) In fact, it was due to my prior experience in the workplace that I cultivated the value-added skill of navigating halakhic sources to support women’s leadership roles within […]
Harassment: An Assault of Human Dignity Following the headlines of the #MeToo movement, one might think that the horrors of sexual harassment had just been discovered. Remarkably, though, already in the second century ce, Rabbi Akiva taught some of the basic lessons of the movement. A close reading of a single mishnah can help us […]