Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

American-Israeli activist and writer

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll (born 1975)^[1] is an American-Israeli activist and writer whose work focuses on women's rights in Orthodox Judaism and the visibility of women in Israel's Orthodox communities.

Keats Jaskoll was born and raised in Lakewood Township, New Jersey^[1] in a Jewish but non-Orthodox family. After migrating to Israel in 2007, Keats Jaskoll gained public attention through her co-founding and leadership of a women's advocacy group Chochmat Nashim and her writing at the Times of Israel news site.^[2]^[3]^[4] A key issue promoted by Keats Jaskoll is the combatting of the fundamentalist trend among some Orthodox Jewish publications to refuse the printing of any visual depiction of women.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Klein, Abigail (26 Nov 2010). "Arrivals: Finding their comfort zone". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 26 Jan 2022.
^ Taylor, Penina (1 Oct 2021). "With Wisdom She Builds Her House: An interview with Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll". Unorthoboxed. Retrieved 26 Jan 2022.
^ "Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll". Jewish Women's Foundation of New York. Retrieved 26 Jan 2022.
^ Chernikoff, Helen (21 July 2021). "Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll leads effort to create stock photos of religious women". eJewish Philanthropy. Retrieved 26 Jan 2022.
^ Marcus, Sara (14 Nov 2018). "Where have all the women gone: Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll speaks on the erasure of Jewish Women". The Yeshiva University Observer. Retrieved 26 Jan 2022.

External links

Official website

Women in Judaism

General topics

Women in Judaism
- In the Bible
- Early modern period
- In the Holocaust
- In Israel
Gender and Judaism
- Matrilineality in Judaism
- Bat-Kohen
- Bat Levi
- Gender and Jewish studies

History	Jewish Women's Congress (1893) 1902 Kosher Meat Boycott 1904 New York City Rent Strike 1906 Tonsil Riots 1907 New York City Rent Strike 1909 Shirtwaist Strike World Congress of Jewish Women (1923, 1929) Women's Torah Project (2003–2010) Women's Siyum HaShas (2020)

Feminism	Jewish feminism Orthodox Israeli Mizrahi

Life cycle events

Zeved habat / Simchat bat
Bar and bat mitzvah
- For adults
Girls' Day (Chag habanot)

Marriage	Marriage Matchmaking Marriage contract Marital harmony Head covering Homemaker Ritual purity Ritual immersion Divorce Agunah

Practices and concepts

Gender separation
- Tzniut
- Negiah
- Yichud
Abortion
- In Israel
Birth control
Sexuality
- Homosexuality

Prayer and study	Tkhine Tseno Ureno Partnership minyan Tefillin Barbie Midrasha Mechitza Court of the Women

Religious roles	Rebbetzin Rabbis and Torah scholars Timeline Yoetzet halacha Toanot Rabniyot Scribe Cantor Timeline Firzogerin

Organizations

Historic / defunct	Clara de Hirsch Home Di Vilde Chayes League of Jewish Women (Germany) Jewish League for Woman Suffrage (UK) Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz