Elisheva Sokolic
By Elisheva Sokolic
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The Schmooze Is It Even Purim If You Haven’t..
Awkwardly closed a web page, like a teenager whose parent is hovering, at the sight of the unexpected search results to “Adult alien costume.” Seriously, when did extra-terrestrial become a fetish? Argued with a tiny human to try to convince them they really want to be part of the family dressing up theme. I know…
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Life Top Four Myths Around Jewish Mourning
Death is often the elephant in the room, but luckily, Judaism gives us many guidelines for how to manage it when it happens, whether it’s been coming a long time, or surprises those closest out of the blue. Following those rules and keeping to Jewish law and practice can bring many people comfort in the…
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Life Why Is This Kosher Establishment Selling Donuts To Boys – And Salad To Girls?
Earlier today, the following advert started making the rounds on social media: In time for ‘yeshiva week’, winter vacation from yeshiva day schools, this kosher restaurant in New Jersey posted an online advertisement for mid-winter specials. The only thing notable about it was the amount of misogyny they could fit onto one leaflet. Residents of…
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Life Why Day Schools Are To Blame For Jewish Gender Stereotypes
Recently, AmericanJewish day schools celebrated Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, with the usual activities: falafel and pita for lunch, make-your-own-Israeli-flag, come into school dressed in blue and white, and so on. And yet in many day schools around the world, while the girls assembled for Israeli folk dancing, the boys were steered towards Israeli-style ‘army…
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Life Judaism Needs to Be Kinder to Transgender People
Leah came out as transgender long before she thought about converting to Judaism. As a trans woman with a Jewish father, she was befriended by some Orthodox Jews at her college. “They treated me like one of their own and helped me not feel the all-encompassing isolation that my formative years had graced me with.”…
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Opinion A Trans Woman Was Just Kicked Out Of A Jewish Facebook Group For Women
Yesterday was Transgender Day of Remembrance. It’s a day to mark the violence against the Transgender community. Unfortunately, in one Jewish Facebook group, it was marked by cruelty instead. Facebook groups have evolved over the last few years from groups of a few dozen people from your high school class to thousands of people with…
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