Caty Simon
By Caty Simon
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Opinion Harvey Weinstein’s ‘Casting Couch’ Sexual Harrassment Was Never Ok
Within Harvey Weinstein’s incoherent statement of apology in the New York Times Friday after he was accused of being a serial sexual harasser of women, among the clumsily misquoted Jay-Z lyrics was an implicit justification for his actions: “I came of age in the 60’s and 70’s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces…
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Opinion The Radical Class Divide In My Modern Orthodox High School
This essay is part of our ongoing series, Outside the Bubble: Class and Inequality in the Jewish Community. It explores the class divides in Jewish communities of all denominations, and the financial struggles belonging to these communities can incur. Please email your thoughts and essays to [email protected]. Kids don’t understand class. As a baal teshuva…
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