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Chochmat Nashim was founded to fight injustice in the Orthodox Jewish world and bring about positive change. Join Anne Gordon and Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll as they speak from within the community out of love for Judaism, respect for tradition, and the need for justice.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A Jewish conversation show about halacha, women's communal life, grief, and Israel's pressures from inside lived practice.
The Chochmat Nashim Podcast: Women Talk Judaism is a Religion & Spirituality show about Jewish life as it is lived inside community. It moves through halacha, women's public presence, holiday preparation, dating norms, grief, and life under war in Israel, with a tone that is…
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A sharp look at how the study counts people, frames categories, and handles identity.
The episode follows Anne Gordon and Shoshana Kutz-Jaskol as they pick apart the Orthodox Union study, Attrition and Connection in American Orthodox Judaism, with unusual care for framing and method.
A grounded look at how awareness, values, and public life collide.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Kutz-Jaskol use a simple what-if to test how much has really changed after years of calling out the erasure of women.
A practical conversation about turning women’s visibility into something the community can actually use.
The conversation centers on the gap between saying women should be visible and doing the work that makes that visibility useful. Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keats-Jaskol bring Laura Ben-David into a familiar, affectionate setting, then move from friendship and memory to the…
A serious Jewish conversation about captivity, mutual care, and the small acts that helped women hold each other up.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keats-Jeskel keep the focus on the women who were held captive and the small ways they looked out for one another. The details are plain and concrete: reporting back from the border, fasting on Yom Kippur, and using voice and strength to speak for each…
A candid look at how material pressure can bend Modern Orthodoxy's moral language.
It looks at Modern Orthodoxy through the moral force of Ben Shapiro's headline-grabbing article, then keeps widening the frame to money, status, and the strain of trying to live an expensive communal ideal.
A blunt, thoughtful look at civil disagreement in a badly split country.
The episode uses a scorching Jerusalem day to open onto larger arguments about Israeli polarization, the draft fight, coalition pressure, and the uncertainty around Gaza. What works is the plainness of it.
A blunt, thoughtful conversation about women in the army and the shifting norms around their role.
The episode keeps women in the IDF at the center, but it opens with gratitude and fundraising before moving into the harder question of how a small organization keeps going.
A careful halakhic discussion of hair covering, context, and the difference between a kohen removing a covering and a woman doing it herself.
An end-of-season conversation about women's hair covering turns into a steady, detailed look at context, obligation, and how halakhic reasoning meets daily life.
Daily halacha, case by case.
Parsha questions carried into serious Torah argument.
Hosts Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keats-Jeskel investigate a two-year effort to challenge the Orthodox Union's policy of not showing images of women on the back page of its Torah Tidbits publication.
Anne Gordon and Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll discuss reactions to a blog post, exploring extremism in Orthodox Judaism and backlash from both right-wing and left-wing perspectives.
Anne Gordney and Shoshana Keats-Jeskel reopen an old Chokhmat Nashim thread with Rabbi Chuck Davidson.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keats-Jaskol begin with gratitude for a fundraiser that helped keep the organization going for the coming year.
Anne Gordon opens by saying how fast the news is shifting and does not pretend it is otherwise.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keats-Cheskel close out season eight with Rabbi Yoni Rosenzweig.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Kutz-Jaskol begin by naming Laura Ben-David's death and the hard conversation that follows.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keats-Jaskol start with the buzz around Ben Shapiro's article about Modern Orthodoxy's moral failure.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keats-Jaskol open with Jerusalem heat, dust, and the miserable weather hanging over life there.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Kishteskel mark their fourth annual pre-Pesach conversation with freedom, family, and what women bring to the Seder table.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Kutz-Jaskol take up an Orthodox Union study on attrition and connection in American Orthodox Judaism.
Shoshana and her guests walk through the everyday behaviors that make dating feel demeaning in their Datilumi and Haredi Yeshivish world.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keats-Jaskol open by linking the episode to the calendar and to Yom Ha'agunah.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keats-Jeskel return after a short hiatus.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keyes-Jaskol frame Season 8 Episode 6 around feeling "pulverized" and "bombarded" by the overlap of personal grief, the Bibas family funeral, and the continuing war in Israel.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Keats-Jasper use the World Zionist Congress elections to explain how diaspora Jews vote on funds that affect the state of Israel.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Kutz-Jaskol open by linking October 7th, Mashiach, and the question of whether Jewish history still feels like a straight path toward redemption.
Anne opens with Laura as a very special guest.
Anne Gordon and Shoshana Kutz-Jaskol open with a thought experiment.
Musician Francesca discusses her new song about the Agunah crisis in the Jewish community, explaining how she's using music to break taboos around get refusal and advocate for halakhic prenups.