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Navigating Change: Agency, Identity, and Embodiment in Haredi Women's Dance and Theater by Munro, Heather L.

“…Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Jerusalem with a dance school and the playwright and cast of a Haredi musical, this article explores the formation of…”
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Women's Voices in Contemporary Hasidic Communities by Waldman, Rose

“…One of the central features of contemporary Hasidic communities is gender segregation. Women and men operate in separate spheres, and the public sphere favors…”
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The First Female Qadi in Israel's Shari`a (Muslim) Courts: Nomos and Narrative by Zion-Waldoks, Irshai, Shoughry

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The First Female Qadi in Israel's Shari`a (Muslim) Courts: Nomos and Narrative by Zion-Waldoks, Tanya, Irshai, Ronit, Shoughry, Bana

“…Given the multifaceted obstacles facing Palestinian Muslim women in Israel, this article aims to understand what enabled the impressive sea change marked by…”
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Israeli Cinema Studies: Mapping Out a Field by Chyutin, Mazor

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Fantastical Autography in Asaf Hanuka's The Realist by Reingold

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(In)visible Women: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women's Faces and the Internet by Sinnreich, Helene

“…Over the past fifty years, images of women have been disappearing from ultra-Orthodox and eventually Orthodox publications. Despite their communities'…”
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Israeli Cinema Studies: Mapping Out a Field by Chyutin, Dan, Mazor, Yael

“…The academic field of Israeli cinema studies has come more fully into its own over the past two decades, emerging as a vibrant and rich area of research. The…”
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“I feel so crazy, like flying the coop”: The Lesser-Known Sarah Schenirer. Side Reflections on Naomi Seidman's Book by Lisek, Joanna

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Refugees at the Margins: Jewish Domestics in Britain 1938-1945 by Craig-Norton, Jennifer

“…From shortly after the Anschluss until the beginning of the Second World War, about twenty thousand Jewish refugees were admitted to Britain as live-in…”
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The Emergence of Israeli Orthodox Women Filmmakers by Seigelshifer, Valeria, Hartman, Tova

“…Israeli Orthodox Jewish women are, for the first time, using film to speak and reflect in a public voice upon various challenges and aspects of their lives…”
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The Emergence of Israeli Orthodox Women Filmmakers by Seigelshifer, Hartman

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Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Feminist Art in Israel: Institutional Criticism of the Rabbinical Establishment by Sperber, David

“…The feminist art movement of Jewish religious women in the United States and Israel emerged at the end of the 1990s. This article examines Jewish feminist art…”
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Fantastical Autography in Asaf Hanuka's The Realist by Reingold, Matt

“…Originally published in the Israeli business newspaper Calcalist, Asaf Hanuka's series The Realist introduces readers to the real-life experiences that he has…”
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“Washing Away the Shame”: A Forgotten Arab-Jewish Author as a Pioneer against Honor Killing by Snir

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“Washing Away the Shame”: A Forgotten Arab-Jewish Author as a Pioneer against Honor Killing by Snir, Reuven

“…Arab-Jewish culture witnessed a new revival during the first half of the twentieth century, but this revival was cut short as a casualty of Jewish and Arab…”
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Redefining Kabbalah: Combinative American Religion at the Kabbalah Centre by Carr, Jessica

“…This article argues for understanding the practices of the Kabbalah Centre as “combinative American religion,” Catherine Albanese's theory of metaphysical…”
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Between the Street and the Shul : Religion and Jewish Second-Generation Identity in Interwar Glasgow by Taylor

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Feminine Identity in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women's Contemporary Art by Cohn, Noa Lea

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Recovering the Kerchief: Returning to Judaism in Contemporary Israeli Religious Women's Fiction1 by Sicher, Efraim

“…This essay looks at three novels by contemporary Israeli female novelists from different religious backgrounds who describe the process of women's repentance…”
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