Alexandra Fleksher
By Alexandra Fleksher
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Life Even ‘Miss America’ Realizes Modesty Is About Women’s Empowerment
The Miss America pageant, to me, is the stuff of funny memes: Young pretty ladies with buff arms and manicured long nails hysterically crying as the crown is placed on their heads. Barbie-like specimens of physical perfection struggling to answer questions about education and geography. It was the biggest joke of all: For decades, since…
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Life How the Term ‘Ultra-Orthodox’ Is An Overgeneralization — And Why It Matters
One of my biggest pet peeves about how the media often portrays Orthodox Jews is its use of the overarching term, “ultra-Orthodox.” The photos that accompany articles about “ultra-Orthodox” Jews are typically of women in thick stockings, short wigs and little hats pushing strollers in busy intersections in places that look like Boro Park. Men…
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