Chanel Dubofsky
By Chanel Dubofsky
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Life I Don’t Want Kids, Thanks for Asking. And Asking.
Creative Commons I know you said “please,” Jane Eisner. But the answer is still no, I will not have a baby because you’re nervous about Jewish birthrates. I’m not going to have a baby, period, which I’ve said about 1 million times, on this site and others. This is the thing about people who don’t…
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Life Fighting the Israeli Macho: A Gchat with Elana Sztokman
Copyright Ingrid Muller Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman, the former executive director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, is a leading writer and thinker on topics of feminism, Judaism, Israel and orthodoxy. Her first book, The Men’s Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Council Award in the area…
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Life The Dead Mothers Club
Molly Shannon in ‘The Dead Mothers Club’ This morning on the train, I started reading “The Goldfinch,” Donna Tart’s enormous novel that won the Pulitzer this year. Five pages in, you learn that Theo, the protagonist, has a life that’s been separated by the “dividing mark” of his mother’s death, Before and after. This would…
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Life On Jewish Women and Facial Hair
Thinkstock The first time I thought about facial hair was in high school, when a boy, whom I considered a friend, informed me that I had more hair on my upper lip than he did. I didn’t do anything about it then — it had been enough of a fight with my mother to let…
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Life A Real Talk College Guide for Women
Thinkstock In preparing to interview Julie Zeilinger about her new book, “College 101: A Girl’s Guide to Freshman Year”, I asked some female friends of mine, all in our twenties and thirties, what, if any, books they’d been given in preparation to go to college. The answers included “What Color is Your Parachute?”, “Chicken Soup…
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Life Teaching Women How to Tie Tzitzit
A few things about tzitzit: First, even when there’s a map of what to do in front of you, tying it looks like a completely nonsensical project if you’ve never done it before. Second, it’s difficult to get people to talk to you while they’re doing it. Finally, there’s nothing precisely like the experience of…
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Life Single Mother and Rabbi
Courtesy of Diva Communications// Rabbi Felicia Sol with her children The new film, “All of the Above,”, explores what happens when a single, Jewish clergy member wants to become a mother. The documentary, produced by Diva Communications, features interviews with Rabbi Lisa Gelber, an associate dean, at the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Rabbinical School, Rabbi Julie…
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Life Not Becoming a Rabbi Was the Best Decision of My Life
Thinkstock There are a lot of things that I’m never going to be: a morning person, someone who remembers to check the weather report. A rabbi. It’s especially good that I am not this last thing, because it would have been the biggest mistake of my life. Throughout college, there were moments stacking up, like…
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