Striking Out for Orthodox Feminism

Nancy Edelman of Teaneck, N.J. strikes back at the NYTimes' mischaracterization of Jewish Orthodox feminism in this letter:-

Immersed in Julia Moskin’s otherwise wonderful article about Sephardic cooking in Brooklyn (“Mother to Daughter, Since Forever,” Oct. 11), my reverie was broken by the sentence that stated that like Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish women, the women of this community rarely work outside the home.

While it may be true that many of the Syrian women who were interviewed do not work outside the home, most of the Orthodox women I know do. I juggle my career and my commitment to my family, and occasionally, I also bake some Ashkenazic mandel bread.