Elana Sztokman

Gender, Religion and Education

• “War, terror, girls and God: the construction of the religious Zionist female citizen in a state religious junior high school in Israel, 1999-2002″, British Journal of Religious Education, 2007
• “Pre-bar/bat mitzvah education in an Ortho-egal shul” [With Menucha Cohen Amir], Jewish Educational Leadership, 2008
• “To be an Arab Jewish girl in a state religious school in Israel: Navigating gender, ethnicity and class in religious Zionist identity and culture” International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, 2006
• “Panoptical prayer and other practices”, Jewish Educational Leadership, 2007
• “Clashing Expectations: Be Fruitful but Graduate” Lilith, 2006
• “Gender in Religious High Schools”, JOFA Journal, 2002

Gender, power and society

• “A woman’s work is never done”, Jerusalem Post, 2006
• “Gender in Diaspora Jewish identity” in Ben Moshe and Segev, Israel, the Diaspora and Jewish Identity

Education and Society

• “Westward Ho!” Jerusalem Report, 2007
• “The Fear is Real”, Jerusalem Report, 2002
• “Striking a Blow against Violence”,Jerusalem Report, February 2006
• “Reut — A Unique Pluralistic Jewish Community”
• Calling Sde Bar Home

Marriage, divorce, and agunot

• “A Deadly Urge to Control Women”,Jerusalem Report 2001
• “It Starts Under the Huppah”Jerusalem Report 2000
• “Agunot — the most pressing issue on our agenda”, in Margalit Shilo, ed, To Be a Jewish Woman, 1999
• “Dancing around the Bridegroom”, The Jewish Wedding Guide 2004

Life in Israel

• Why we need Sundays
• The Time Capsule in my mother’s backyard

Parenthood… and more

• On Skirts and daughters
• Birth and Rosh Hashana
• Between my daughter’s world and my own

Tanach

• “Bringing tanach to life”, Modiin Info 2006
• “The lady is a tramp”, Jerusalem Report, July 1999
• “The Sacrifice of Esther”, Jerusalem Report March 2000

Book Reviews

• Ruth Halperin Kadari, A State of their Own
• The JPS Guide to Jewish Women
• JGirls Guide
• Herzl’s Nightmare
• Expecting Miracles
• Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism

Bits about my work

About our pre-marriage education course in Melbourne

A short piece about Mavoi Satum

About Tanach Chai! “Bringing tanach to life”, Modiin Info 2006

last updated, 6/08