Who has the right to the city? Reform Jewish rituals of gender-religious resistance in Tel AvivJaffa

דת ומדינה התנועה הרפורמית זהות יהודית-ישראלית חברה ישראלית טקסים מגדר פמיניזם תל אביב

This ethnographic study examines rituals performed by a Reform Jewish community in Tel Aviv-Jaffa through the theoretical lens of Henri Lefebvre’s "The Right to the City." Ben-Lulu analyzes how the community utilizes urban public spaces (such as the Tel Aviv Port or Old Jaffa) to enact a dual form of resistance: against the Orthodox hegemony over religious services in Israel and against patriarchal gender norms. The article demonstrates how conducting egalitarian religious rituals in the heart of the "secular" city challenges traditional boundaries, creating an alternative religious space that integrates liberal and feminist values with Jewish tradition.