Practice Safe Politics

An organization of anonymous American feminists, Jewish Women Watching drew attention to discriminatory policies about women and other minority groups within the Jewish community, leading protests against racism, sexism, and homophobia. They targeted Jewish institutions, as well as non-Jewish politicians and officials, often using creative or satirical approaches. Among other protests, in 1999, their members dressed in masks with tape over their mouths and protested a Jewish Community Relations Council meeting in which no women were invited to speak. As a result, six women were added to the program. They also protested the involvement of Jewish organizations with the Christian Right in 2002 by mailing condoms to more than 3000 Jewish leaders with pamphlets that spoke about the anti-Jewish sentiments of their Christian "bedfellows." By 2010, the group had ceased activity.