ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the challenges encountered and mechanisms to deal with research in Brussels. It explores the context of Jewish Israeli women in Belgium. The chapter explores women's experiences of gender and gendered identities. It also explores the professional identity of these women and how they experienced being Jewish women in the Belgian workplace. It focuses on women's experiences of national identity and how they achieved a sense of belonging to a community or a group. According to the American Anthropological Association's (AAA), the anthropologist has to be open about the purposes, potential impacts and sources of support at all times. Scheper-Hughes, who asserts that anthropologists, since they work with people, must commit to the people they investigate, distinguishes between an observer and a witness. In describing the path followed by anthropologists in conducting fieldwork, Wilding suggests that many anthropologists are nomadic in a way or another.
