Lisa Fishbayn Joffe

Lisa Fishbayn Joffe is the Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University and of the HBI Research Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law. Her scholarship focuses on gender and multiculturalism in family law and on the intersection between secular and religious law.

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Women of the Wall

Women of the Wall (WOW) is an international community of women who, since 1988, have sought the freedom to conduct women-led Torah services in the women’s section at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. WOW’s legal claims and political strategies raise questions about women’s rights to equality within Judaism and under Israeli law, the nature of religious toleration for non-Orthodox Jewish movements, and Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state.

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