Chanel Dubofsky
By Chanel Dubofsky
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Life Six Arab Women Writers You Should Be Reading
For many American Jews, Palestinian-Israel author and journalist Sayed Kashua is not only a celebrity, he’s the only Arab writer they can name. In addition to reading Kashua’s columns in Haaretz, Kashua’s satirical sitcom, Arab Labor, portrayed the experiences of an Arab-Israeli family with the systemic racism present in Israel, was aired on Israel’s Channel…
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Life Why Donald Trump’s ‘Neurotic’ Woman Matters
A brief list of coded words you should not be using to describe women: Hysterical (not like, “Oh my God, that’s so funny, it’s hysterical!” but the antique mythical disorder where a uterus floats around a woman’s body and she can’t control her emotions because of it). There’s also shrill, bossy, emotional, high maintenance, etc….
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Life Why You Shouldn’t Be Caitlyn Jenner for Halloween and 4 Other Costumes To Avoid
After uproar in the comments section, Walmart.com seems to have pulled its controversial Israeli soldier costume,just in time for Halloween. It might not be the best time ever to be promoting dressing up like an IDF soldier, but the makers of offensive Halloween costumes have never been particularly concerned with timing or taste. In case…
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Life Can Premarital Sex Get You Fired From a Synagogue?
On Wednesday, while many Jews were camped out in synagogue repenting, Gothamist ran a story entitled “Woman Claims Synagogue Fired Her for Having Pre-Marital Sex.” Alana Shultz, 36, had been employed as program director at Congregation Shearith Israel — the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States — on the Upper West Side, for 11…
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Life What Happens to Sex Offenders Who Flee to Israel?
When Brooklyn police went to convicted sex offender Yona Weinberg’s apartment this past as a Level 3 (a high risk of repeat offending and considered a threat to public safety) sex offender on the United State sex offender registry It turned out, though, that Weinberg had moved to the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem where…
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Life Does ‘Breast is Best’ Apply in Synagogue?
When model Nicole Trunfio appeared on the cover of June’s Elle Australia , the hashtag #normalizebreastfeeding generated on Twitter and Instagram, with both women and men discussing the importance of being able to breastfeed publicly without being censored or sexualized. Women posted pictures of themselves breastfeeding to social media platforms, demonstrating that the act is…
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Life Stop ‘Praying for Baltimore’ on Social Media
As coverage of the uprising in Baltimore in response to the death of Freddie Gray spread across social media this week, I noticed one observable phenomenon on my Facebook feed: white folks “praying for Baltimore.” Prayer helps us cope. It’s a place to go when we are overwhelmed, when we need to feel like there…
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Life Selma and the Dangers of Jewish Entitlement
illustration by Lior Zaltzman In Leida Snow’s recent piece for the Forward, “’Selma’ Distorts History by Airbrushing Out Jewish Contributions to Civil Rights,” she asserts that the filmmakers and writers deliberately omitted the role of Jews in the Civil Rights Movement. (Snow doesn’t seem to have ideas as to why.) I’m going to draw an…
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