Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal

Shalom Task Force began in a moment of genuine moral urgency. In 1992, a New York pediatrician kept seeing battered Jewish women and children in his practice—bruised, frightened, and without culturally appropriate resources. Distressed by what he saw, he approached community members, and a group of women banded together to create what became Shalom Task… — read more

Okay, so I want to talk about a couple of things. The first is why so many people are confused about the Raphi Stein issue—or what I’m going to call the Raphi Stein issue. It is really the Kohn vs. Stein divorce, similar to the Lonna Kin case. One of the central issues is a… — read more

For generations, a powerful cultural myth circulated quietly within many Jewish communities: “Jews don’t beat their spouses.” Wrapped in the religious ideal of Shalom Bayit (peace in the home), domestic abuse was often imagined as something that happened elsewhere, in other cultures or dysfunctional secular environments. But survivors, advocates, clinicians, and community organizations have spent… — read more

In Judaism, marriage is not supposed to be a power struggle between men and women. That is why the word for man, ish, which has a yud, the Hebrew letter yud, and ishah has the Hebrew letter hei, and the yud and the hei are God’s name. We don’t believe that you can have a… — read more

Candace Owens and Adina Sash: Two Birds of a Feather By Dr. Dannielle BlumenthalFree to reuse with attribution. In the beginning, the antics of Adina Sash aka FlatbushGirl were playful and fun. Then things turned dark and deranged. Something has happened to her. The parallel of Candace Owens keeps coming up for a reason. Candace… — read more

10 words/phrases professional feminists use to intimidate other women and men from speaking naturally: I have a lot of real feminist friends and none of them ever talk like this. — read more

I thought I would talk about just one of my many timeline cleanses, which I tend to do when I’m migrating my blog, which gets pretty big. When I’m done with an issue, when an issue I have researched is so gross that it’s just grossing up my timeline. So it was 2016, some of… — read more

Every journalist who investigates a topic has to know when their work has come to an end. That time has arrived for me. I hope I have helped people to think more critically about a tough subject. In this case, an additional factor was the fiery institutional dynamics surrounding the issue. You have, Halacha, Batei… — read more

There’s a principle in Judaism that you should try to judge someone for the good. And in the defense of Adina Sash, AKA Flakbush Girl, I think the one thing you can say about her is that she has made an effort to promote the mitzvah of Lefne Iver low-titin Mirchol. This is in Vayikra,… — read more

In order to understand how severely Adeena Kohn is being exploited by her mother, Rivka Kohn, and Adina Sash, aka “FlatbushGirl,” you have to understand something called postpartum psychosis. This medical condition is temporary and highly treatable. “Postpartum” means it happens after giving birth. It is rare, affecting 1-2 mothers in every thousand. With proper… — read more