Lilit Marcus
By Lilit Marcus
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News WATCH: Meet America’s First Deaf Hillel Leader
Gallaudet University is like many other colleges and universities around the world, with students gathering in common areas to chat with their friends and set up study sessions. But there’s one thing that’s less common about the chitchats at Gallaudet: They’re all in American Sign Language. The Washington, D.C., university, sometimes known as “Gally,” was…
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Life The Art of Goysplaining
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman The other day at work, I got goysplained. Let me back up. In 2008, Rebecca Solnit wrote her seminal essay, “Men Explain Things To Me.” In the essay, Solnit relates a story where she went to a party and mentioned that she had been writing about the famous photographer Eadweard Muybridge….
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Opinion 7 Best Jewish Comebacks to Catcalling
I’m sure you’ve seen it by now. A video made by the anti-street harassment group Hollaback shows a woman, the Jewish actress Shoshana Roberts, walking around in New York City getting unwanted attention from men. The video struck me because, when I moved to New York ten years ago, two things happened: street harassment became…
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Life A Jewish Queen of Late Night?
Getty Images Last week, Chelsea Handler of “E!“‘s late night talk show “Chelsea Lately” announced that she would be leaving the network. A few days later, David Letterman — host of “The Late Show” and the record-holder for longest running late night host in history — announced that he would be retiring in 2015. Coincidence?…
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Life In Defense of Andi Dorfman, Jewish ‘Bachelorette’
ABC Andi Dorfman, the next star of ABC’s reality dating show “The Bachelorette,” is many things. She’s a prosecutor in Atlanta. She’s a fan favorite who took a guy to a date at a gun range. And she’s Jewish. “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette”’s casting process has roots in the Old Testament, with each series…
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Life Orthodox Woman’s ‘Move Over’ Subway Campaign
Tzipporah, a Modern Orthodox woman living in Manhattan, just couldn’t deal with the way that people misbehaved on the New York subway. She started taking surreptitious camera phone photos of the worst offenders — men who insisted on sprawling out onto multiple seats, even when the train was packed. She began posting the pictures on…
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Opinion 7 Best Jewish Comebacks to Catcalling
I’m sure you’ve seen it by now. A video made by the anti-street harassment group Hollaback shows a woman, the Jewish actress Shoshana Roberts, walking around in New York City getting unwanted attention from men. The video struck me because, when I moved to New York ten years ago, two things happened: street harassment became…
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Culture For One Teen, Getting a Jewish Education Was a Form of Rebellion
Someone once asked Pamela Anderson — the regular Playboy centerfold and “Baywatch” star — what she thought her two sons would be like when they grew up. She joked that in order to rebel against her, they would probably become accountants. Though the quote seemed like a throwaway comment, it creeps back into my mind…
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