Can a woman be both Haredi and feminist? And what happens when challenging the norms of your community is an expression of loyalty to that very community?
Fainy Sukenik is a Haredi feminist, social entrepreneur, and activist who has spent years challenging entrenched attitudes toward women in Israel's ultra-Orthodox society. After escaping an abusive marriage and experiencing the isolation and stigma faced by divorced women, she founded an organization to provide the support she herself had desperately needed. But her ambitions went further: she wanted to change the system itself.
In this powerful conversation, Joanne Greenaway speaks with Fainy about surviving domestic abuse, confronting communal resistance, and insisting that divorced women deserve justice and respect, not simply charity. They also explore her groundbreaking campaign for Haredi women's representation in the Knesset, the growing struggle between reform and religious extremism, and her hopes for the next generation of Haredi women.
Throughout it all, Fainy refuses to accept that feminism and Haredi identity are incompatible. Her message is both challenging and deeply hopeful: loving your community doesn't mean accepting everything about it. Sometimes, it means fighting to make it better.
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