{"id":1532,"date":"2013-03-09T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/03\/thoughts-of-a-religious-feminist.html"},"modified":"2013-03-09T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:06:00","slug":"thoughts-of-a-religious-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/03\/thoughts-of-a-religious-feminist.html","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts of a Religious Feminist"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">When I turned 18, and was fresh out of Bnei Akiva and the Israeli state religious school system, Alice Miller had just triumphed in her struggle in the High Court, paving the way for other women who aspired to be pilots in the Israel Air Force.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white\"><br style=\"background-color: white\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">My generation has grown as a result of struggles like Alice Miller\u2019s.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white\"><br style=\"background-color: white\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">I am grateful to these feminist women who led groundbreaking efforts, who struggled so that we as women could benefit from greater freedom and improved lives.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white\"><br style=\"background-color: white\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">On a personal level, I am also grateful to God that I was born after the feminist revolution.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white\"><br style=\"background-color: white\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">I am well aware of the fact that in the past women did not have the options available to them today \u2013 to study and get a higher education, to work and make money, to have control over our bodies, to leave an abusive husband, to work in whatever field we desire, to be a community representative and carry out measures for the benefit of the community, the right to vote, and the right to be elected.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white\"><br style=\"background-color: white\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">And yet, despite all of these rights, as a religious woman, the feminist conflict is doubly difficult.<\/span><\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"background-color: white\"><br><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/Op-EdContributors\/Article.aspx?id=305684\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I turned 18, and was fresh out of Bnei Akiva and the Israeli state religious school system, Alice Miller had just triumphed in her struggle in the High Court, paving the way for other women who aspired to be pilots in the Israel Air Force.My generation has grown as a result of struggles like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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