Blu Greenberg
By Blu Greenberg
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Life Staying the (Jewish Feminist) Course
This is the sixth entry of an ongoing series exploring Jewish feminism. How I became a feminist and why I have remained one for 40 years are two different stories. In December 1962, returning home from the lecture circuit, my husband purchased for me Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” at an airport bookstore. This was…
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Life Bintel Brief: Yitz and Blu Greenberg Peer Across the Denominational Divide
Dear Rabbi and Rebbetzin, I am a convert to Judaism and have been living a “Conservadox” life for about 15 years. My conversion was traditional, with all of the rites, including hatafot dam brit, immersion and questioning before a beit din [rabbinic court] after a period of about two years of study. However, the rabbi…
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News Women of Valor
This is the third in a series of special sections celebrating the 350th anniversary of the arrival of Jews in the United States. When 23 Jews arrived on these shores from Recife, Brazil in 1654, Governor Peter Stuyvesant immediately wrote to his Dutch West India Company bosses requesting permission to ship back to their point…
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Opinion Joe Lieberman’s Historic Run
A decade ago, I found myself in a hotel lounge in a mid-sized American city chatting with a local Jewish leader. He spoke loudly, but every time he used the words “Jew” or “Jewish,” he lowered his voice. For an instant, I experienced an urge — similar to one I had felt in a Moscow…
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