Debra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning journalist and the author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant. Follow her on Instagram @debranc or email her at [email protected].
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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News The ‘Missing Males’ of Liberal Judaism
After attending Jewish overnight camp for five summers and graduating from eighth grade at a Jewish day school, Caleb Bloomfield was ready for a break. The 18-year-old Brooklynite, now a public high school senior at The Beacon School, in Manhattan, wasn’t interested in going to his Conservative synagogue’s Hebrew high school program, or services, or…
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Life Haredi Rabbi Talks ‘Kosher Feminism’
Sunday was the enormous Lubavitch Kinnus HaShluchim, replete with 3,500 of the rebbe’s emissaries in Crown Heights for Shabbos and coverage in The New York Times, of the banquet meal at Brooklyn’s cruise terminal, the only space large enough to accommodate the crowd. I write this while watching a live feed of the speakers. The…
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News Questions Surround Rally’s Invitation to Cat Stevens a.k.a. Yusuf Islam
The blogosphere is abuzz with people wondering why the singer once known as Cat Stevens, and later as Yusuf Islam, was invited to sing at Jon Stewart’s and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” last weekend in Washington. Now going by just Yusuf — his given name was Steven Demetre Georgiou — the…
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Life Voting: A Family Affair
Voting this morning I saw several parents with tots in tow, and it reminded me of the many, many times I took my kids to the polls. I took them strapped on to the front of me in baby carriers; I took them in strollers; I took them by the hand as toddlers; and starting…
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News Amid Diversity, Worries About Jews and Gays
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — When Julia Watt-Rosenfeld went to P.S. 9 in Prospect Heights to vote in the presidential election two years ago, she waited for nearly two hours in a line that went around the block. On this election day, though, she was in and out of the polling site in minutes. “It’s really…
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Life Why No Heroines Among the ‘Jewish Community Heroes’?
When one of our favorite blogs, Jacob Berkman’s The Fundermentalist, over at JTA, throws down the gauntlet, we at The Sisterhood are happy to take it up. In his post announcing that the Jewish Federations of North America-run Jewish Community Heroes contest has selected its five finalists, he notes that they are all male. Nominees…
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News As Some Retire From ADL, Will Abe Be Next?
One thing is certain about Abraham Foxman and his Anti-Defamation League: They are never out of the headlines for long. Among Foxman?s most recent statements were ones castigating actor/director Rob Reiner?s for comparing Tea Party members to Nazis, and a Greek Melkite archbishop, who, Foxman argued, ?effectively? suggested at a Jerusalem conference that Judaism has…
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Culture Study Finds Jews Donate More to Poor
Jews make more donations than people of other religions to “basic needs” causes, which are those that focus on food, shelter and other fundamental necessities, according to a recent study comparing philanthropic patterns among Americans of different faiths. The study, by Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis economics professor Mark Ottoni Wilhelm, analyzed data that is…
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