A Haredi Myth of Female Leadership: Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky by Iris Brown (Hoizman)

“…Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky (1932–2011) served as a spiritual guide for many; her prominence and influence were a unique phenomenon in the Haredi (Jewish ultra-Orthodox) community in which she grew up, where women, lacking Talmudic knowledge or other sources of authority, are generally found only at the margins of the public sphere. …”
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Fattened flattened tongue ties: performing maternality online and offline by Benigson, H

“…Central to this is Jude (2020), the portrait of a former Rebbetzin, (m)other and drummer and their exclusion from an Orthodox Jewish community as they come out as non-binary and acknowledge their sexuality, using technology, social media and the Internet as tools for exploring their performance of self and the construction of an alternative network of friends around their new identity. …”