About The Chochmat Nashim Podcast: Women Talk Judaism
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.
An Orthodox Jewish Woman Activist … Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll (Cross-posted from the Orthonomics Podcast)
Special Episode! Shoshanna sits down with Mark Trencher of the Orthomomics podcast, cross-posted here.
Our guest is Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, a well-known Orthodox Jewish writer and activist whose work focuses on women's rights in Orthodox Judaism and the visibility of women in religious life. Born and raised in Lakewood, New Jersey, she moved to Israel with her family, where she has become a prominent voice challenging religious extremism, the erasure of women from public and communal spaces, and broadly advocating for Orthodox Jewish women.
In this episode we discuss a number of issues including the increasing erasure of images of women in Orthodox venues. the agunah problem (women who are unable to obtain a get – a Jewish legal divorce – and are chained to former spouses and unable to remarry), women's health issues, their growing roles in Jewish learning, and more.
She is a co‑founder of Chochmat Nashim, an organization that creates change in the global Jewish society by challenging dangerous trends in Jewish communities around the world. Using new and traditional media the organization sheds light on societal norms that exclude women and feed extremism.
She is also a founder of Rate My Deit Din, a resource and website that evaluates and improves Jewish divorce in the rabbinic court (beit din) system. Courts are rated via user and professional reviews and are offered ways to improve users' experiences.
Finally, she is a founder of the Laura Ben David Jewish Life Photo Bank, a dedicated resource for authentic images of Jewish women, families, and communities, aiming to counter erasure.
17 Dec 2025
Ko Amar: A Chanukah Light for Agunot
In this short Chanukah conversation, Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll sits down with Franciska to discuss her new release "Ko Amar"—a song written to shine light on the painful reality of Agunot, women halachically "chained" in marriages. Together, they explore why this issue cannot remain in the shadows, how music can serve as both protest and prayer, and what it means to bring light where there has been silence. A brief but powerful reflection on responsibility, compassion, and communal action.
28 Sept 2025
Season 8 Finale: Rabbi Yoni Rosenzweig, Covering Hair, and Being Normal (Season 8 Episode 18)
Rare is the rabbi willing to make a public statement on the head coverings of Orthodoxy's married women, given how fraught the topic can be. Rav Yoni not only posted about it on Facebook, but he also breathed new life into an old conversation. Shoshanna and Anne talk to him about the post, the reactions, and even get him to give a basic p'sak.
Read Rav Yoni's Facebook post here.
Music: "Misery" by The Whips
Inside a recent episode
An Orthodox Jewish Woman Activist … Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll (Cross-posted from the Orthonomics Podcast)
Published 10 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But in Chokhmat Hashim, what we've noticed is that real change comes when the community decides it needs to change. And that can be whether we stop buying magazines that don't have women in them or Whether we decide we're all going to sign prenups and therefore that is a standard like a ketubah. […]
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