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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Life Roza Weiss: Rubashkin Daughter, Wife of Accused Molester
It was hard not to feel sympathy for Roza Hinda Weiss as she stood before some 700 Lubavitch women last Sunday night and asked them for money. At an “Emergency Rally for Pidyon Shvuyim,” or Redeeming a Captive, she was trying to raise $1.5 million for her father’s legal appeal. In November her father, Sholom…
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News Rubashkin Kin Guilty in Sex Case
A son-in-law of Sholom Rubashkin, the kosher meat mogul convicted of financial fraud in November, has pleaded guilty to child endangerment in a case related to the sexual molestation of a 13-year-old boy at a mikveh. Under a plea bargain agreement, he faces up to 60 days in jail. Under oath, Rabbi Yaakov Weiss admitted…
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News Conservatives Protest Israel’s Treatment of Women of the Wall
The Israeli police’s recent interrogation of Women of the Wall leader Anat Hoffman and member Nofrat Frenkel “opens a new and ominous chapter in intra-Jewish relations,” The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism declared in a sharply worded statement released January 11. USCJ, which represents 670 synagogues in North America, is urging its members to write…
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Life Bra Colors for Breast Cancer Awareness or Facebook Prank?
I like Facebook (and waste far too much time on it). But the cultural norms on this mother of all social networking sites may be getting just a bit too … intimate for me. This week suddenly many of my female FB friends started simply listing colors for their Facebook statuses. First a friend just…
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Life Commentary Mag Takes a Stab at Why Jewish Women Hate Palin
The last time I paid much attention to Sarah Palin was in July, when she announced that she would resign as governor of Alaska. Her speech was mesmerizing. Not, as you might hope from a former candidate for vice president of the United States, for the skill of her rhetoric or substance of her ideas,…
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Life Rachel Simmons on the Truths of Girls’ Lives
One of the country’s foremost experts on the lives of American girls is Rachel Simmons, a 35-year-old alumna of Vassar College and Oxford University who also attended the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School through high school. Her mother is Israeli, and, she says, she was raised in a “Conservative-Israeli” kind of household. Graduate school…
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Life The New Jewish Baby Announcement: a Facebook Pee Stick Pic
You know it’s a new day in social networking (virtual and otherwise) when someone puts as her Facebook photo a picture of her pee stick home pregnancy test showing the 2 lines that indicate a baby is on the way. While I don’t personally know the woman who decided to announce her pregnancy this way,…
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News Oren Asks for Inquiry on Wall Arrest
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren blamed his own government for giving him an “incomplete” report recently that led to his giving leaders of Conservative Judaism an inaccurate account of one of their members’ detention at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. The woman, Nofrat Frenkel, was detained last November after she wore a tallit and carried a Torah in…
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