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Why do you choose to focus on women?

I believe in the power of women to bring about change. And, I think women don't take the reins often enough to create change . . . I think women should take responsibility and channel it towards change. Women have an important role to play in leading anti-war movements. Rabbi Nava Hefetz 8 Women in Society

Why do you choose to focus on women?

Because I believe in the power of women to bring about change. And, I think women don't take the reins often enough to create change. Women give life. By virtue of giving birth women take part in divine creation. That's why women, when their child is taken from them, feel loss magnified a thousand times more than a man. I'm not saying that men don't hurt, but I think that women have a compassion that we don't find in men. Women are less aggressive and destructive than men are. Women are more capable of understanding human situations than men are. And most importantly, women are oppressed in every society. That's why I think women should take responsibility and channel it towards change. Women have an important role to play in leading anti-war movements. For example, take "Four Mothers",1 who got the army out of Lebanon. It wasn't Ehud Barak as people tend to think.
  • 1For more information, see Lieberfeld, Daniel. "Media coverage and Israel's ‘Four Mothers' antiwar protest: agendas, tactics and political context in movement success." Media, War & Conflict, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2009), pp. 317-338.